20150914 – CYPRUS

Code: CYP-2015-01

Release Date:  September 14, 2015

Coming from: Cyprus Post

Title: Cyprus Castles

Format: Serie of 4 stamps

Sheets of: 10 stamps

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Stamp 4 of 4 
Currency: Euro - EUR

Facial: 0.75 (EUR)

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Lighthouse: Ancient Lighthouse of Kyrenia (1886). Northwest Tower of the Fortress
All: 
Country:  Cyprus (Turkish)

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RELATED MATERIAL

 

 

The pane of 10 stamps also depicts on the  border,  the bottom half of the Kyrenia East Mole.  And on the left, we have a view of the NW tower of the fortress.

We saw these two ancient lighthouses in the Europa issue of 2012 from Cyprus North.

 

 

 

 

20150929 - ECUADOR

  

Code:  ECU-2015-01

Release Date:  September 29, 2015 

Postal Authority:  Correos del Ecuador

Title:  EXPO AFE 150  (Philatelic Expo- 150 years of the first Ecuadorian stamp)

Format:  Serie of 25 stamps

Sheets of: 25 stamps (1 serie)

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Mega issue from Ecuador celebrating the International Philatelic Expo "EXPO AFE 150".  25 stamps.  20 of them dedicated to the countries participating in the expo.  In each of them, an historical stamp of that country is depicted.  Luckily for us, one of the stamps chosen is related to a lighthouse.  Also, there is another stamp that deserve some attention from us...  

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Stamp 8 of 25 
Currency:  US Dollar - USD

Facial:  0.75 (USD)

Service:  Local Std Letter up to 20g

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Lighthouse:  Castillo del Morro - La Habana
All:  J-4857
Country:  CUBA

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If we think that the Cerro of Montevideo in the Coat of Arms of Uruguay is a lighthouse, then here there is another lighthouse stamp in this serie.

Stamp 24 of 25 

Currency:  US Dollar - USD

Facial:  0.75 (USD)

Service:  Local Std Letter up to 20g

Dimensions (mm): 
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Lighthouse:  Cerro of Montevideo Fortress
All:  G-0702
Country: URUGUAY

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Centenary of Morro Lighthouse 1949 - Cuba Sc 432    Yv 318   Mi 241

Provincial Map of Uruguay 1973 - Uruguay Sc 857    Yv 859

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.



20150922 - AZERBAIJAN

Code: AZE-2015-02
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Postal Authority: Azermarka LLC
Title: Joint Issue Azerbaijan-Russia.  Modern Architecture
Format: Serie of 2 stamps
Sheets of: 8 stamps (4 series) + Central Label

Stamp 1 of 2

 

Currency: Manat - AZN
Facial: 0.6 (AZN)
Lighthouse: Maiden Tower / Qiz Qalasi in Baku, Azerbaijan

Minisheet

 

 

 

Click Here   for the Russian part of the joint issue.

20150922 - RUSSIA

Code: RUS-2015-01
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Postal Authority: Russian Post
Stamp Production: Marka
Title: Joint Issue Russia-Azerbaijan. Modern Architecture
Format: Serie of 2 stamps
Sheets of: 8 stamps (4 series) + Central Label
Design: Dobrishev, A.
Printing Method: Offset Multicolor
Paper: Coated
Quantity: 100.000 series

Stamp 2 of 2

 

Currency: Ruble - RUB
Facial: 19 (RUB)
Dimensions (mm): 37 x 37
Perf: 11 1/2
Lighthouse: Maiden Tower / Qiz Qalasi in Azerbaijan. 

 

 

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20150910 - AZERBAIJAN

 

Cod: AZE-2015-01

Release Date: September 10, 2015

Postal Authority: Azermarka LLC

Title: Chess World Cup - Bakú 2015

Format: Block with 1 stamp

Dimensions (mm): 110 x 96

Design: Kh. Mirzoyev

Printing Process: Offset

Quantity: 5000 and 200 imperforated

 

 

Stamp 1 of 1

 

 

 

Currency: Manat - AZN
Facial: 1 (AZN)
Dimensions (mm): 28 x 40
Perf: 14
Lighthouse:  Chess... Towers...  Baku... yes,  you guessed.  Is Qiz Qalasi / Maiden Tower.

We're used to the stamps with the tower seen from the Caspian sea. For example this one ...

 

 

 

... but in this chess stamp, the designer, shows us the other side of the complex,  the view from the old city of Baku.

Photo courtesy:
 http://www.globe-hoppers.com/maiden-tower.HTML

20150916 - GREAT BRITAIN

UPDATE
Info and Image added

 

 

Code: GBR-2015-02

Release Date: September 16, 2015

Postal Authority: Royal Mail

Title: POST & GO - Sea Travel

Format: Serie of 6 stamps
Design Osborne Ross
Illustration Andy Tuohy 
Printing Process: Gravure
Stamps Dimensions (mm): 56 x 25
Perf: Kiss die-cut Simulated 
Security: Phosphor Bars
Gum: Self-adhesive
Printed by: International Security Printers 

 

 

Dover Stamp

South Foreland Lighthouse

 

 

 

Thanks to https://www.bfdc.co.uk/  for the images

20150911 - FINLAND

Confirmed and Updated with images and info

 



Code: FIN-2015-01
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Postal Authority: Posti
Title: Animal Town
Format: Minisheet with 6 stamps
Design: Lotta Nieminen

Stylized Lighthouse in the Minisheet
Outside the stamps

 

 

20150926 - SAINT PIERRE ET MIQUELON



Final look of the stamp

Code: SPM-2015-02
Release Date: September 26, 2015
Postal Authority: La Poste SPM
Title: La pointe aux canons
Format: 1 stamp
Dimensions: 48 x 27
Sheets of: 25 stamps
Design: Laure Rabottin
Printing Method: Taille-douce
Gravure: Marie-Noëlle Goffin
Currency: Euro - EUR
Face Value: € 0.76  (EUR)
Service: Standard Letter 20grs to France
Lighthouse: Pointe aux Canons

20150910 - ICELAND

Code: ICE-2015-01
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Postal Authority: Pósturinn - Iceland Post
Title: Lighthouses V
Format: Serie of 2 stamps
Currency: Permanent Value

I do not know how much of real and how much of photoshop this Elliðaeyjar photo have, but the result is a fantastic stamp.

Domestic Non Priority Mail  up to 50g
Elliðaeyjar Lighthouse

Europa Letters up to 50g
Æðeyjar Lighthouse

Thanks Klaus for the alert on this issue