SRI LANKA - 2018

NEW ISSUE

And finally it´s here...
The wait was worth it...

A magnificent closure of 2018

Code: SRI-2018-01
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Postal Authority: Sri Lanka Post
Title: Lighthouses of Sri Lanka
Format: Serie of 4 stamps
Presentation:
- Single Stamps in sheets of 20 stamps (same design)
- Minisheets of 1 stamp
- Minisheets of 1 stamp "THAILAND 2018"
- Prestige Booklet

Design: Mr. Ruwan Upasena
Printing Process: Offset Lithography 4 colours
Paper: 102 gsm Security Stamp Printing Paper
Gum: PVA
Printer: Department of Government Printing, Sri Lanka
Quantity:
-Single Stamps: 500.000 series
-Minisheets: 25.000 series
-Thailand Minisheets: 4.000 series
-Booklets: 1000

Currency: Sri Lanka Rupee - LKR
Facial: Rs 45 (LKR)
Stamp Dimensions (mm): 30x60
Perf: 12 x 13 1/4

Design 1

  

Lighthouse: Barberyn
ALL: F-0826
Location: Barberyn Island, Beruwala, Sout west of Sri Lanka

Design 2

Lighthouse: Galbokka Point
ALL: F-0804
Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka

Design 3

Lighthouse: Oluvil
ALL: F-0845
Location: Oluvil, East of Sri Lanka

Design 4

Lighthouse: Point Pedro
ALL: F-0870
Location: Northern point of Sri Lanka

RELATED MATERIAL
(more images soon)

First Day Cover with the addition of

COLOMBO CLOCK TOWER in the design

First Day Cancel

THANK YOU very much Ravi for the Images and Info.
And congrats to the design team for this magnificent material.

SRI LANKA - 2017

NEW ISSUE

Code: SRI-2017-01
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Postal Authority: Sri Lanka Post
Title: Personalized Definitives Stamps 2017 (*)
Format: Serie of 3 stamps
Presentation: Sheets of 100 stamps
Design: Mr. P. IsuruChaturanga
Printing Process:
Paper:
Gum:
Printed by:
Quantity: 

Stamp 3 of 3

Currency: Sri Lanka Rupee (LKR)

Facial: 25.00 (LKR)

Stamp Dimensions (mm): 30 x 25

Perf: 

Lighthouse: Dondra Head

ALL: F-0836

Location: Southernmost tip of Sri Lanka

(*) These stamps can be purchased as you see here or personalized with an attached label with an image/design provided by the client. The personalized option is printed in sheets of 20 stamps (same denomination) and 20 labels.  

Thanks Ravi for the information about this release

SRI LANKA - 2016 (II)

Updated with new Images

No, this is not "that" issue of Lighthouses of Sri Lanka we are waiting for.

Images of the 3 Blocks added

GENERAL INFO:

Code: SRI-2016-02
Release Date: December 02, 2016
Authority: Department of Posts, Sri Lanka
Title: Unseen Sri Lanka
Format: Serie of 12 stamps and 3 Miniature Sheets
Presentation: Sheets of 12 (1 serie)
Design:
Printing Process:
Paper:
Gum:
Security:
Printer:
Quantity: 

Stamp 9 of 12

STAMP INFO:

Currency: Sri Lanka Rupee - LKR

Facial: 25,00 (LKR)

Dimensions (mm):

Perf:

Lighthouse: Queen´s Tower. Builded by the Dutchs during their occupation in Sri Lanka, this was a primitive form of lighthouse.

Wikipedia explanation: "... Fire was set at the bottom, wich creates a vacuum forcing air upwards and its light was passed through tower´s chimney-like tube to the top where sailors were able to see light from distance..."

Next, a better view of the tower in the illustration of the Block 2. We can see the door at the base of the tower, where the fire was lit.

Location: Delft (Neduntheevu) Island. North West of Sri Lanka

Stamp 11 of 12

STAMP INFO:

Currency: Sri Lanka Rupee - LKR

Facial: 25,00 (LKR)

Dimensions (mm):

Perf:

Lighthouse: Mannar Island

ALL: F-0884

Location: North of Mannar (Talaimannar) Island. North of Sri Lanka

Thanks Ravi, from Sri Lanka for the images

SRI LANKA - 2016

New Release

A small snack, while we wait the release of Lighthouses of Sri Lanka in june.

GENERAL INFO:

Code: SRI-2016-01
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Authority: Department of Posts, Sri Lanka
Title: Sri Lanka Tourism - 50th Anniversary
Format: 1 stamp
Presentation: Sheets of 20 stamps
Design: Mr. Ruwan Indrajith Upasena
Printing Process: 
Paper:
Gum: 
Security: 
Printer:
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Stamp Info:
Currency: Sri Lanka Rupee, LKR
Facial: 15,00 (LKR)

Dimensions (mm): 

Perf: 

The logo of the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Sri Lanka Tourism cover most part of the stamp...

... and the center of the logo have this ilustration:

Lighthouse: Stylized

 

20150924 - SRI LANKA

Code: SRI-2015-01
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Postal Authority: Sri Lanka Post
Title: World Maritime Day 2015
Format: 1 stamp
Sheets of: 20 stamps
Currency: Sri Lanka Rupee - LKR
Facial: 5.00
Lighthouse:  The pole painted with horizontal bands (inside the lines added by me) is the Colombo Harbour East Breakwater - F-0784.  But...

...the best view of a lighthouse in this issue is in the First Day Cover.   Left margin of the FDC with Galbokka Point (F-0804) in Colombo.

Thanks for the alerts on this issue sent during my brief absence.

Thanks Jaap, Ravi, Eckhard and Glynne for the info.



20111028 - SRI LANKA

A new discovery from last year...

Release Date: October 28, 2011
Postal Authority: Sri Lanka Post
Title: Vintage & Classis Cars of Sri Lanka - National Stamp Exhibition
Format: Block with 4 stamps
Value of the block: Rs. 40,00 (Sri Lanka Rupee - LKR)
Printed by: Department of Government Printing, Sri Lanka


Lighthouse:

Colombo Clock Tower

Extra Material: This block can be found also with the logo of LANKA PHILEX 2011. Bottom left of the block.

Thank you very much Ravi, from Sri Lanka for the alert on this issue.

20100915 - Sri Lanka

Release Date: September 15, 2010
Postal Authority: Sri Lanka Post
Title: Lighthouses of Sri Lanka 1996
        Overprint "National Stamp Fair - Colombo 2010"
Format: Block with 4 stamps
Dimensions of the stamps (mm): 28 x 40
Perforation: 12 1/2
Facial of the block: Rs 500.00 (Sri Lanka Rupee - LKR)
Printed by: State Printing Works Moscow

Lighthouses:
-Little Basses Reef
-Great Basses Reef
-Dondra Head
-Point de Galle


Thanks to Daniel and Jaap for the info.

20100827 - Sri Lanka

 

Release Date: August 27 - 2010

Postal Authority: Sri Lanka Post

Title:  60th Anniversary of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (1950-2010)

Format: 1 Stamp

Perf: 12 x 13 1/2

Sheet of: 50 stamps

Quantity printed: 1000000

Facial: 10.00 (Sri Lanka Rupee - code:LKR)

Designed by: Mr. Kelum Gunasekera

Paper: 102 gsm Security Paper

Printing Method: Offset Lithography in 4 colours

Printed by: Department of Government Printing, Sri Lanka

Lighthouse: Colombo Clock Tower Light. It´s the square tower in front of the Central Bank´s building, beside of the facial.

Thanks to Ravindra from Sri Lanka for this information.  You can follow Ravi´s blog about lighthouses in  this address:   http://lighthousesonstamps.blogspot.com/