http://www.stampandcoin.co.uk APRIL 2016 123For daily stamp updates, and to sign up for our e-newsletter, visit the Stamp & Coin Mart website: http://www.stampandcoin.co.uk- (7r) – Stop Smoking: man who is making a
cup of tea) being admonished about smoking
by a blue bird - (7r) – Limit Alcohol: Couple drinking miniature
glasses of wine by candlelight
059 International Firefighters’ Day, eight
self-adhesive values in a sheetlet
Issue date: June 26, 2015; Design: Jaco Botha;
Printer: Southern Colour Print, New Zealand,
offset; Perforations: die-cut 12 x 12.25; Non-
denominate, stamps for ‘Standard Postage’
Self-adhesive sheetlet, contains- Dennis fire engine of 1920, and fire station
of that period - Modern fire engine with turntable ladder
- Modern firefighters using water-hose on fire
- Mountain rescue: firefighter riding with
causalty on stretcher on hoist - Firefighters carrying a stretcher
- Firefighters attending an overturned vehicle
- Men in dinghy assisting swimmer in trouble
- Firefighter in a school classroom,
giving safety instruction
060 60th anniversary of the Freedom
Charter, one value in a miniature sheet
Issue date: June 26, 2015;
Design: Cyril Maphumulo; Printer: Cartor, offset;
Perforations: 13.2 x 13.2
Miniature sheet R5 – crowd cheering, with flags
Notes: Charter was adopted by a ‘Congress of
the People’ in Kliptown (SOWETO) June 26, 1955061 The Women’s Charter, 17 April 1954,
Johannesburg, one value in a miniature sheet
Issue date: August 7, 2015; Design: Rachel-
Mari Ackermann; Printer: Cartor, offset;
Perforations: 13.2 x 13.2
Miniature sheet R5 – preamble to the Charter
(on women’s rights and opportunities) published
in Johannesburg by women’s rights activists062 Jellyfish in South African Waters, ten
self-adhesive values in a sheetlet
Issue date: August 12, 2015; Design: Sheila
Collikns; Printer: Cartor, offset; Perforations: die-
cut 14.5 x 14.5. Non-denominated.
Sheetlet:
B5 (6.55r) – Barrel jellyfish, Rhizostoma sp.
B5 (6.55r) – St Lucia jellyfish,
Crambionella stuhlmanni
B5 (6.55r) – Box jellyfish, Chirodropus branchi
B5 (6.55r) – Mauve stinger, Pelagia noctiluca
B5 (6.55r) – Purple compass jellyfish,
Chrysaora africana
B5 (6.55r) – Cape barrel jellyfish,
Eupilema inexpectata
B5 (6.55r) – Benguela compass jellyfish,
Chrysaora fulgidaB5 (6.55r) – Box jellyfish, Chirodropus gorilla
B5 (6.55r) – Pink meanie jellyfish,
Drymonema sp.
B5 (6.55r) – Helmet jellyfish,
Periphylla periphylla
Notes: The stamps form a composite view, with
other marine life on the ocean floor shown in
the border. Stamps were affixed separately (5 +
5) to two First Day Covers063 XIV World Forestry Congress, South
Africa, five self-adhesive
values in a miniature sheet
Issue date: September 7, 2015; Design:
Annemarie Wessels; Printer: Cartor, offset;
Perforations: die-cut 14.5 x 14.5.; Non-
denominated
B4 (8r) – ‘Transforming Livelihoods’: hikers on
trail, and man carving sticks
B4 (8r) – ‘Forest Products’: men using chainsaw
to fell tree, and loading logs on transporter
B4 (8r) – ‘Forest Governance’. Forest
service official carrying out ecosystem check
(measuring a seven week fern)
B4 (8r) – ‘Indigenous forest dwellers’ (from
different South African regions): samango
monkey, knysna dwarf chameleon, blue duiker,
emperor swallowtail butterfly
B4 (8r) – Forest recovering after fire: outeniqua
yellow wood, tropical cinnabar bracket fungus,
lepiota fungi, James flower, falling star lilies
Border depicts a forest plantationTRISTAN da CUNHA
(previously listed in February 2016 issue)064 Early Mail Ships. Definitives,
twelve values
Issue date: December 8, 2015;
Design: Andrew Robinson; Printer: BDT, offset;
Perforations: 14 x 14
1p – HMS Odin, built 1901; called at
Tristan January 23, 1904
2p – RMS Asturias, built 1925; called at
Tristan February 15, 1927
5p – SS Empress of France; called at
Tristan 28 February, 1928, with nine
tons of stores and eight mail bags
10p – HMS Carlisle. Visited Tristan Jan 7,
1932, and February 28, 1937
25p – Barque Ponape, built 1903. Visited
Tristan June or July 1934
35p – RMS Atlantis (previously the Andes).
Visited Tristan February 19, 1934
45p – Barquetine Cap Pilar. Called at
Tristan Jan 31, 1937
60p – RMS Franconia. Visited Tristan
February 21, 1939
£1 – HMS Queen of Bermuda, built 1933;
called at Tristan August 24, 1940(on wartime patrol as an amed
merchant cruiser)
£1.50 – HMS Caernarvon Castle, visited
Tristan November 15, 1940 as
armed merchant ship
£2 – RMS Darro; built 1935. Called at
Tristan 11 October, 1945: the first
vessel to call at Tristan after end of
the Second World War
£5 – MV Pequena, a wooden-hulled
vessel built in Nova Scotia as
a minesweeper, converted for
crawfishing. Called at Tristan
regularly between 1948 and 1953TUNISIA
(previously listed in March 2016 issue)065 International Day for the Elimination of
Violence against Women, one value
Issue date: November 25, 2013;
Design: Hela Ben Chaikh; Printer: Post Printer,
offset; Perforations: 13 x 13
600m – Face of a woman and white ribbon066 65th anniversary of the International
Declaration of Human Rights, one value
Issue date: December 10, 2013;
Design: Sihem Chaabene; Printer: Post Printer,
offset; Perforations: 12.8 x 12.6
600m – Man with broken chains
hailing a dove of peace067 Tunisian Personalities, four values
Issue date: December 27, 2013;
Design: Hela Ben Cheikh, and Samir Ben
Gouiaa; Printer: Post Printer, Tunis; Perforations:
12.8 x 12.6 (Dhahhak), 0r 12.6 x 12.8
250m – Ibrahim Dhahhak, 1931-2004,
woodcarver, artist
250m – Youssef Rekik, 1940-2012,
playwright and artist,
with glass painting
600m – Tahar Cheriaa, 1927-2010,
cineaste. Portrait of the founder of
Carthage Cinema Festival
1,000m – Zoubeida Bechir, 1938-2011,
poetess, broadcaster,
with poetry book068 50th anniversary of Diplomatic
Relations between Tunisia and the Peoples
Republic of China, one value
Issue date: January 14, 2014;
Printer: not reported; Perforations: 13.3 x 13.3
700m – Archway / bridge over the Medjerda- Cap Bon canal in Tunisia, flags
Notes: joint issue with P.R. China
(Chinese design depicted Great Wall of
China). Joint FDCs were released 054
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