20111013 - United Kingdom

Release Date: October 13, 2011
Postal Authority: Royal Mail
Title: UK A-Z Part 1
Format: Serie of 12 stamps for Part 1 (26 in total)
Sheets of: 30 / 60 stamps
Designer: Robert Maude and Sarah Davies
Printing Process: Lithography
Paper: with Phosphor all over and gum PVA
Printed by: Cartor Security Printing, Meaucé, France

Stamp of our interest: The second in the serie..., and because this is an alphabetical journey thru UK, the stamp is for the letter B (Blackpool, Lancashire)

Facial: 1st (First Class Mail)
Dimensions (mm): 35 x 35
Perforation: 14 1/2 x 14 1/2
Lighthouse: Blackpool Range Rear

The main atraction of the stamp is the Blackpool Tower.

The lighthouse is the smaller tower painted in black and white.

20110701 - CUBA

Release Date: July 01, 2011
Postal Authority: ECC Empresa de Correos de Cuba
Title: 65 Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Philippines and Cuba
Format: 1 stamp
Sheets of: 24 stamps
Currency: Cuban Peso (CUP)
Facial: 85 (centavos - 0.85 CUP)
Lighthouse: Castillo del Morro

Thank you very much Klaus for the alert on this issue.

DOUBTFUL - Guinea (Republic) 2011

Title: Fauna & Flora - Coquillages (Shells)
Format: Two Blocks...

 ... one of them with lighthouses as background.

20111027 - ALDERNEY

Release Date: October 27, 2011
Postal Authority: Guernsey Post - Philatelic Bureau
Title: Christmas 2011 - An Alderney Winter Wonderland
Format: Serie of 7 stamps
Sheets of: 50 stamps
Designer: The Potting Shed
Paper: 110gsm unwatermarked PVA Adhesive
Printing Process: Offset Lithography
Printed by: Osterreichische Staatsdruckerei GmbH (OeSD)


Stamp of our interest: Number 4 in the serie

Facial: 48p (pence - 0,48 pound)

Dimensions (mm): 38,55 x 29,584

Perforation: 13 1/2 x 14 1/4

Lighthouse: Alderney / Mannez (Alderney)

20111027 - GUERNSEY

Release Date: October 27, 2011
Postal Authority: Guernsey Post - Philatelic Bureau
Title: Christmas 2011 - A Winter Wonderland
Format: Serie of 7 stamps
Sheets of: 50 stamps
Designer: The Potting Shed
Paper: 104gsm unwatermarked
Printing Process: Offset Lithography
Printed by: Southern Colour Press


Stamp of our interest: Number 4 in the serie

Facial: 48p (pence - 0,48 pound - GGP)
Photo: by Karen Millard (selected from the photographic competition organized for this issue)
Dimensions (mm): 41,5 x 30
Perforation: 13 1/3 x 13 1/3
Lighthouse: Castle Breakwater (St Peter Port)

 

 

20111018 - CROATIA

Release Date: October 18, 2011
Postal Authority: Hrvatska pošta
Title: Lighthouses 2011
Format: Serie of 3 stamps
Sheets of: 10 stamps
Designer: O. Franković, I. Vučić  (Zagreb)
Paper: white 102g, gummed
Printing Process: Offset Multicolor
Printed by: "Zrinski" - Čakovec
Quantity: 100000 series


Stamps:
Dimensions (mm): 48,28 x 29,82
Perforation: 14
Currency: Kuna (code:HRK)

Facial: 3.10 (Kn)
Lighthouse: Prišnjak
(Look for it in the upper right side of the island, is
that little red point in the stamp)

Facial: 7.10 (kn)
Lighthouse: Blitvenica

Facial: 3.10 (Kn)
Lighthouse: Mulo

RELATED MATERIAL:

First Day Cover

First Day Cancellation

Full Sheets

Thanks to Drazen from Croatia for the information, also to Jaap and Klaus for the images. Sorry to all the followers for the delay of this post.

20110411 - NETHERLANDS

Release Date: April 11, 2011

Postal Authority: TNT Post

Title: Mooi Nederland - Beautiful Netherlands - Breda

Format: Block with 5 stamps

Designer: Huug Schipper - Studio Tint

Paper: normal with phosphor tagging

Gum: Synthetic

Printing Process: Offset in four colours

Printed by: Joh. Enschedé Security Print (The Netherlands)

Quantity: 85000 blocks

Lighthouse:

It is a lighthouse, but It´s not a lighthouse.  This art work stands on the corner of Emmastraat and Academiesingel at Breda (Netherlands) and was made by architect Aldo Rossi (1931-1997) in 1992. Although this is not a lighthouse, I decided to show it, in tribute to the author for choosing this particular design for his work.

Thanks Jaap for the info about this issue.

DOUBTFUL - Congo (Democratic Republic) 2011

Title: Whales and Lighthouses

Format: Serie of 6 stamps.

 * Klaus Huelse noted a mistake in this issue. In the bottom left stamp, the lighthouse (Bunbury or Casuarina Point) is located in Australia, not South Africa.

OTHER FORMATS:

Individual Blocks

2 Blocks with 3 stamps each

 Thanks to Klaus for the alert on this issue.

20111005 - St Pierre and Miquelon

Release Date: October 05, 2011
Postal Authority: La Poste de SPM - Bureau Philatelique
Title: L'anse á Bertrand - Bertrand´s Cove
Format:  Tryptic  -  2 stamps plus center without value.
Dimensions (mm):
Designer: Michel Borotra
Engraver: Eve Luquet
Printing Method: Taille Douce
Currency: Euro (EUR)

Center Complement without
Value

Lighthouse I: Ile aux Marines

Rocher Bertrand daymarker (not a lighthouse).

Comparison

Preview of the stamps published by SPM Timbres in the
2011 Philatelic Program at the begining of the year

Final work

20111105 - Isle of Man

Release Date: November 5, 2011
Postal Authority: Isle of Man Post Office
Title: Top Gear     *(TV program from England)
Format: Serie of 6 stamps
Sheets of: 20 stamps
Designed by: Dave Macdonald
Paper: 110 gms
Printing Process: Offset Lithography in 4 colours
Printed by: Lowe-Martin


Stamp of our interest:

Facial: 37p (pence - 0,37 Manx Pound - IMP)
Dimensions (mm): 40 x 30,77
Perforation: 14
Lighthouse:

The image from the stamp was taken in the port of Dover (England). Just above the head of the "sailor" we can see the South Breakwater East Arm Head (ALL A0929) painted in green.

Are you interested about the car on the stamp? Follow this link to a video in Youtube to see how this story began and how it ends...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTVPPTV-bQM&feature=BFa&list=PLE3DCDDC2FB3FBDA6&lf=results_video



Thanks to Jaap for the help on this post.

DOUBTFUL - Guinea (Republic) 2011

Title: Fauna & Flora - Owls
Format: 2 blocks ...

... in one of them appear the Cape Columbine Lighthouse.

Thanks to Klaus for the info.

20110824 - PORTUGAL AZORES

Release Date: August 24, 2011

Postal Authority: CTT - Correios de Portugal SA

Title: Patrimonio Baleeiro - Whaler´s Heritage

Format: Serie of 4 stamps + 2 Blocks

Designer: Francisco Galamba

Printing Method: Offset in 4 colours

Printed by: Cartor

Quantity Stamps:

€0,32: 400000

€0,68: 250000

€0,80: 155000

€2,00: 160000

Quantity Blocks:

€1,75: 60000

€2,30: 60000

Dimensions of Blocks (mm): 125 x 95

Stamp of our interest: Number 4 in the serie

Facial: € 2,00 (Euro - EUR)

Dimensions (mm): 40 x 30,6

Lighthouse: Stylized

20110105 - MACAU

Release Date: January 05, 2011
Postal Authority: Correios de Macau
Title: Lunar Year of the Rabbit
Format: Serie of 5 stamps
Sheets of: 25 stamps (5 series)
Designer: Wilson Chi Ian Lam
Paper: with Optic Fibres
Printing Process: Offset Lithography
Printed by: Cartor Security Printing (France)
Quantity: 250000 (50000 series)

Stamp of our interest: Depicting the Rabbit of Fire

Facial: 1.50 Ptcs (Patacas - Code MOP - 1 Ptcs = 100 avos)
Dimensions (mm): 35 x 35
Perforation: 13 1/4
Lighthouse: Guia (Macau)

Where is it?:

Just above the Facial Value.  The figure of the Chapel and the lighthouse of the Guia Fortress.

More material about GUIA?  Follow the next link to a fantastic post from Daniel, the Pharotéliste:  Click Here 

20110810 - MALTA

Release Date: August 10, 2011
Postal Authority: Malta Post plc - Philatelic Bureau
Title: Maritime Malta
Format: Serie of 4 stamps
Sheets of: 10 stamps
Paper: Maltese Crosses watermarked
Printing Method: Offset
Printed by: Printex Limited
Quantity:
€0.26  100000
€0.37  400000
€0.67   80000
€0.91   60000

Stamp: Number 3 in the serie, showing a Patrol Boat – P23 of the Armed Forces of Malta

Currency: Euro (€ - EUR)
Facial: € 0.67
Dimensions (mm): 44 x 31
Perf: 13,9 x 14
Lighthouse: Dellimara Point



http://www.maltapost.com/news-details?id=64

2010 New Stamps with Lighthouses in PDF

Hello:

Week after week new info is added to this blog.  This could make difficult to the reader find images or information about issues from previous months or the last year.
To make easier to the friends followers of this blog this kind of searchs, I decided to do a list with all the stamps with lighthouses from 2010 in a PDF file...

This is a free file.  You can downloaded to your computer and can access to the same info of this blog in a faster and more organized way.  Every 2 or 3 month this list could change with some new discovery or with more technical info. In this cases a new file will be available.  You can check in this blog the newest version of the file. Every year starting in 2010 will have a separate file.

Version 2.00 - Update to November 22, 2011

Download from here:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?4cna54273gg5954

This is a free hosting service.  If you have any problem to download the file from there, you can send me a mail and I will send you a copy. Just put in the subjet "2010 File".  No need to write something else.

 

cmsilvano@arnet.com.ar

I hope that this will be useful to you.

We keep in touch.

Carlos.

20110704 - JAMAICA

Release Date: July 04, 2011
Postal Authority: Jamaica Post / Philatelic Bureau
Title: Lighthouses
Format: Serie of 4 stamps
Designer: Casco Studio
Photographer: Mr. Tony Wong (Stamp Advisory Committee Member)
Printing Method: Lythography
Printed by: BDT International Security Printing Limited

Stamps:
Currency: Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
Dimensions (mm): 28,45 x 42,58 (landscape and portrait)
Perforation: 14

Facial: $ 20
Lighthouse: Negril Point

Facial: $ 50
Lighthouse: Morant Point

Facial: $ 60
Lighthouse: Lover´s Leap

 

Facial: $ 200
Lighthouse: Galina Point

 

RELATED MATERIAL:

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Thanks to John from Kingston for the images  and thanks to Feranie Hamilton, from the Philatelic Bureau of Jamaica Post for the info.

Postmaster General

Central Sorting Office

Philatelic Bureau

South Camp Road

P.O. Box 7000

Kingston, Jamaica W.I.

info@jamaicapost.gov.jm