20121031 ALDERNEY

*** UPDATED with NEW IMAGES

and a NEW STAMP ***

 

 

 

 

 

Block with the complete serie and
Alderney Lighthouse

Release Date: October 31, 2012
Postal Authority: Guernsey Post - Philatelic Bureau
Title: The History of Alderney Harbour
Format: Serie of 6 stamps + Block with 6 stamps
Stamp Dimensions (mm):  38 x 30.56
Perforation: 13 3/4
Design: Richard Thompson
Printing Process: Offset Lithography
Paper:  110gsm unwatermarked PVA adhesive
Printed by: BDT International


Stamps:

52  (0.52 pound)
Local (Bailiwick) Standard
 Large Letter up 100g

Braye Harbour End Breakwater Light
A1538.5  ?

59 (0.59 pound)
Europe/Worldwide Standard
Letter up to 20 grs

Lights at the entry of
Little Crabby Harbour (Braye)
A 1539.1  and  A1539.2

Better view of A1539.1  in
the 10 stamps sheet

69  (0.69 pound)
UK, Jersey and Isle of Man Standard
Large Letter up to 20grs

Alderney Lighthouse

Thanks Jaap for the alert on the images.

(**) Confirmed Under-watch issue.
http://newlhstamps.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/2012-alderney.html

20121018 - AZERBAIJAN

Release Date: October 18, 2012
Postal Authority: Azermarka Company
Title: 20th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations. Azerbaijan-Egypt(*)
Format: Block with 2 stamps
Dimensions (mm): 123 x 94
Design: Khasay Mirzoyev
Paper: Chalky
Printing Process: Offset
Quantity: 10000 blocks

Stamp

 

 

Currency: Manat (AZN)

Facial: 60 qəp (0,60 AZN)

Dimensions (mm): 40 x 28

Perf: 14 x 14 1/4

Lighthouse: Maiden Tower (Azerbaijan)

 

(*) Joint issue between Azerbaijan and Egypt. On may 28 we had the egyptian stamp with the same design. Follow this link...

 

http://www.newlhstamps.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/20120528-egypt.html

 

 

Thanks to    http://home.nestor.minsk.by/fsunews/   for the info.

 



20120608 - ECUADOR

Release Date: June 08, 2012
Postal Authority: Correos del Ecuador
Title: The Seven Wonders of Guayaquil
Format: Block with 7 stamps with value + 1 complement
Dimensions (mm): 178 x 95
Currency: US Dollar (USD)
Design: David Romero
Quantity: 25000 blocks

Facial Value: 0.75 (USD)
Perf: 13 x 13 1/2
Lighthouse: Up in the center, the Lighthouse of Santa Ana Hill, in Guayaquil (Ecuador).  This is not a real lighthouse, but I post it anyway as a lighthouse stamp, in recognition  to them that choose the figure of a lighthouse to design monuments.

Here it is a better look...

 

Thanks to John from Ecuador for
this Post Card

...and this is another product from "Correos del Ecuador" with this lighthouse.  It´s a postal stationery from November of 2012.

And this is another example of lighthouses that are not lighthouses.
Breda (Netherlands) in 2011.

 

http://www.newlhstamps.blogspot.com.ar/2011/10/20110411-netherlands.html

Thanks Klaus for the alert on this issue.

Thanks to Elvis Velez and the Philatelic Club Guayaquil for the images and the technical information.
http://www.clubfilatelicoguayaquil.blogspot.com

DOUBTFUL - Rwanda - 2012

Format: Block with 3 stamps
Title: Lighthouses

20120915 - SAINT PIERRE ET MIQUELON

**EDITED with a correction at the Release Date**

The correct date is September 15

 

 

 

Release Date: September 15, 2012

Postal Authority: La Poste de SPM - Bureau Philatelique

Title: Rencontre avec le Poitou - (Coulonges-sur-l'Autize, Poitou-Charentes Region)

Format: 1 stamp

Sheets of: 10 stamps

Dimensions (mm): 76 x 36

Perf: 13 x 13 1/4

Currency: Euro - EUR

Facial: 1,15 €

Service:  with one of these stamps you can send a letter to France, Andorra or Monaco up to 30grs. Prioritaire service.

Design: R.Goineau and R.Irolla

Artists: Z.Hutinet, F.Gaspard

Gravure: Elsa Catelin

Printing Process: Mixed Offset and Taille-douce

Printed by: Phil @ poste

Quantity: 85000

Lighthouse: Cap Blanc (Miquelon Island)

Here it is another example of reciprocity stamp from S.P.M. with lighthouses on it. In this case is with the city of Ouistreham:

http://newlhstamps.blogspot.com.ar/2010/06/20100421-st-pierre-miquelon.html

20120831 - RUSSIA

Release Date: August 31, 2012
Postal Authority: Russian Post
Stamp Production: Marka ( http://www.rusmarka.ru/en/about.aspx)
Title: APEC Russia 2012 – Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, Vladivostok
Format: 1 stamp
Sheets of: 8 stamps
Paper: Coated
Dimensions (mm): 65 x 32,50
Perf: 13 1/2
Facial: 13P. (Rouble - RUB)
Service: with this stamp you can send a local letter (regular mail) up to 20g.
Design: A.Moskovets
Printing Process: Offset
Quantity: 432000

This stamp was issued under the format of Booklet too

 

Dimensions (mm): 180 x 100
Number of sheets: 5 x 2 stamps
Designer: Rastorgueva M.
Quantity: 14000
Lighthouse: On the cover of the booklet.   Tokarev



Also with this stamp were issued a serie of postcards type "B". One of these is dedicated to Basargin Island Lighthouse.

20121012 - JERSEY

Release Date: October 12, 2012
Postal Authority: Jersey Post
Title: Coastal Towers II
Format: Serie of 6 stamps
Sheets of: 10 stamps
Dimensions (mm): 42.5 x 29
Design: Nick Shewring
Printing Method: Offset Litho 4 Colours
Printed by: Österreichische Staatsdruckerei GmbH, Austria


Lighthouse: Stamp number 5 of the serie. 

70  (0,70 Pound)
NOIRMONT POINT LIGHTHOUSE

Service: With this stamp you can send a letter (40-60 grs) to Europe or a letter up to 10grs to the Rest of the World.




These other 3 stamps  are not lighthouses, but the towers are painted as daymarks.



Flicquet Tower

Ouaisné Tower

St. Catherine's Tower

Another view of NOIRMONT POINT Lighthouse at the bottom right of the complete sheet.

Jersey stamps:
http://www.jerseypost.com/Stamps/Pages/Default.aspx

20120904 - ISRAEL

Release Date: September 04, 2012
Postal Authority: Israel Post
Title: Tourism - Visit Israel
Format: Serie of 3 stamps
Sheets of: 8 stamps
Dimensions of Stamps (mm): 30 x 40
Currency: NIS - Israeli New Shekel  (ILS)
Face Value: 3 NIS
Service: 3 NIS is the cost of a Standard Domestic Letter 50-200 grs.
Design: Pini Hamou
Printing Process:  Offset in 4 colours
Printed by: Cartor Security Printings (France)

Stamp Number 2.  Complete Sheet

Lighthouse: Border of the sheet with a panoramic view of Old Jaffa and the port,  with the lighthouse of Jaffa on the right of that picture.

20120913 - ESTONIA

** Images and data added**

 

Release Date: September 13, 2012
Postal Authority: Eesti Post
Title: Lighthouses 2012
Format: 1 stamp
Sheets of: 10 stamps (2x5)
Perforation: 14 x 13 3/4
Dimensions (mm): 33 x 27.50
Currency: Euro - EUR
Facial: 0.45€
Service: 0.45€ is the cost of a Domestic Standard Letter up to 50grs.
Design: Roman Matkiewicz
Printing Process: Offset
Printed by: AS Vaba Maa
Quantity: 50.000
Lighthouse: Käsmu


RELATED MATERIAL:

First Day Cover

Fantastic MAXI CARD

**Thanks Klaus for the alert on this issue**

20120913 - ICELAND

*** Info added and

corrected Facial Value in

Engeyjarviti stamp ***

Release Date: September 13, 2012
Postal Authority: Pósturinn - Iceland Post
Title: Lighthouses II
Format: 2 stamps
Sheets of: 10 stamps
Stamps Dimensions (mm): 30 x 40
Design: Örn Smári Gíslason
Photo: Friðrik Örn Hjaltested
Paper: 196 gsm self adhesive
Printing Process: Offset Litho
Printed by: Joh. Enschedé
Quantity:
Engeyjarvity: 350.000
Kálfshamarsviti: 250.000

Value: Permanent for Local letters up to 50g NON PRIORITY MAIL (Actual value: 103 Icelandic crowns ISK)

Lighthouse: Engeyjarviti

 

 

Value: Permanent for Europa letters up to 50g (Actual value: 175 Icelandic crowns ISK)
Lighthouse: Kálfshamarsviti

Thanks to Klaus for the information about this issue.

20120625 - FRANCE

Release Date: June 25, 2012
Postal Authority: La Poste
Title: La Pointe Saint-Mathieu,  Finistère
Format: 1 stamp
Sheets of: 48 stamps
Dimensions (mm):  40 x 30
Facial: 0,57 € (Euro - EUR)
Design: Pierre Bara
Gravure: Claude Jumelet
Printing Process: Taille-douce
Printed by: Phil @ poste
Quantity: 1800000
Lighthouses:

***EDITED    AUGUST 11***

Here we have a better look. And it confirms that 2 lighthouses are displayed on the stamp. The big one is Saint-Mathieu Rear (ALL A1874.1).  And the small is the Saint-Mathieu Auxiliar Light (ALL A1875).  Thanks Daniel from France for the stamp.

Thanks to Jaap and Klaus for the alert on this issue.

Self-Adhesive stamps

Hello:

The next 3 posts are dedicated to stamps previously released, issued in a self-adhesive version on a different date.

The art of the stamp is the same, but differs from the original in the format that is presented and the release date. 
Are these "New" stamps?.  I post the information and you choose your own answer to that question

We keep in touch
Carlos.

20120502 - GERMANY

2011 Stamp issued in Self-Adhesive format

Release Date: May 05, 2012

Postal Authority: Deutsche Post

Title: Lighthouses

Format: Box with 100 self-adhesive stamps

Dimensions (mm): 60 x 45 x 61

Stamp Dim (mm): 35 x 35

Currency: EURO (EUR)

Facial: 55 (€ 0.55)

Design: Prof. Johannes Graf, Dortmund // Fa. PICOS GmbH, Unkel/Rh.

Printing Method: Offset Multicolor

Printed by: Bundesdruckerei GmbH, Berlin

2011 stamp with Arngast Lighthouse

Thanks Klaus for the alert on this issue.

20110800 - CYPRUS

May 2011 stamp, issued in Booklet

Release Date: August 2011
Postal Authority: Cyprus Post
Title: Lighthouses
Format: Booklet of 6 Autoadhesive Stamps + 6 Refugee stamps

€ 0,43
Cape Greco Lighthouse
Autoadhesive

Thanks Jaap and Klaus for the alert on this issue.

20110701 - GERMANY

2008 and 2009 stamps issued in Self-Adhesive format.

Release Date: July 01, 2011

Postal Authority: Deutsche Post

Title: Lighthouses

Format: Booklet with 10 self-adhesive stamps

Dimensions (mm): 180 x 130  (Folded: 90x130)
Stamps Dim (mm): 35 x 35

Currency: Euro (EUR)

Facial: 45 (€ 0.45)

Design: Prof. Johannes Graf, Dortmund //  Fa. DATISET, Rheinbreitbach
Printing Method: Offset Multicolor

Printed by: Bagel Security-Print GmbH & Co. KG, Mönchengladbac

2008 stamp with Warnemünde Lighthouse

2009 stamp with Norderney Lighthouse

Thanks Daniel for the info about this issue.



20120810 - MALTA

Malta is about to release 88 different stamps at once.  I am not joking.

Release Date: August 10, 2012
Postal Authority: Malta Post
Title: 70th Anniversary Operation Pedestal
Format: Serie of 88 different stamps divided in 11 sheets
Sheets of: 8 different stamps + 2 complements without value
Stamp Dimensions (mm): 44 x 31
Perforation: 13,9 x 14
Paper: with Maltese Cross watermark
Currency: Euro - EUR
Face Value: € 0,26  
Service: with one of these stamps you can send a local letter in the range of 50gr/100gr. (€ 0,26)
Design: Cedric Galea Pirotta
Printing Process: Offset
Printed by: Printex Ltd
Quantity: 80000 sets

Stamps with Lighthouses: 7 of 88

Lighthouses: The stamps shows ships in the vecinity of Valletta Harbour and  the 2 Lights from the breakwaters of that Harbour. 
I used an historic postcard from Klaus Hulse´s site,  and an old stamp to identify the Lighthouses, because today they look different than in 1942 (Date of "Operation Pedestal").

WEST BREAKWATER - St.ELMO

2 stamps

Image of Reference
Malta Stamp from 1922
Catalogued by Milan Asadurov
as a LH Stamp showing St.Elmo
Breakwater.

Stamp 32 of 88 -  H.M.S. Jaunty

Stamp 55 of 88 - H.M.S. Salvonia

EAST BREAKWATER - RICASOLI

5 stamps

Image of Reference
Historic Postcard from Klaus Hulse site.
East Breakwater - Ricasoli

Stamp 43 of 88 - M.V. Melbourne Star

Stamp 50 of 88 - M.V. Port Chalmers

Stamp 52 of 88 - M.V. Rochester Castle

Stamp 82 of 88 - ML134

Stamp 84 of 88 - ML168

Observations:

-My interpretation was based in some cases on the shape and others in the position of the lighthouse. I am open to observations and suggestions. And of course, in these type of stamps, the free interpretation of the artist is always present.

Links:
-Milan Asadurov list of lights on stamps:
http://stalker.dir.bg/stamps/stamps.html

-Klaus Hulse web site:
http://www.leuchtturm-welt.net/index_gb.html