20140808 - GREECE

Code: GRE-2014-01
Release Date: August 08, 2014
Postal Authority: Helenic Post
Title: Tourism 2014
Format: Serie of 3 stamps.  Issued in Booklets of 10 stamps with the same design
Currency: Permanent Value
Service: Standard Mail Overseas lowest weight

Ágios Nikólaos (E-4744)
RHODES - Greece

This stamp is issued in a booklet of 10

Original cover of booklet "Visit Rhodes"

Hellenic Post personalizes the cover of the booklets.  You will find these stamps in booklets with different covers. A tool of marketing for hotels and other companies related with tourism.

***Update May 28, 2015***

The booklet is not the only format that these stamps were released apparently.  A smaller and gummed version of the stamp can be seen in this Cover from the collection of Klaus Huelse.

Thanks Krugermeyer for the alert on this issue.
Thanks Klaus for the image of the FDC

20140822 - MONACO

 

Code: MON-2014-01

Release Date: August 22, 2014

Philatelic Authority: Office des Émissions de Timbres-Poste - Monaco

Title: Grande Bourse 2014

Format: 1 stamp

Sheets of: 10 stamps

Dimensions (mm): 30 x 40,85

Design: Creaphil

Printing Process: Offset

Quantity: 50.000

Currency: Euro

Facial: 0.59

Service: Ecopli (Economic Letter) up to 20g local and France

 

La Grande Bourse (Great Exchange) is a meeting that brings together dealers and collectors in the fields of numismatic and cartophilia. If you plans to visit Monaco in december,  take note of this date: December 7 in the  "Espace Léo Ferré. 

One of the items that describes this meeting in the stamp is what appears to be an old postcard.  Its a view of the harbour with one of the now extinct jetty lights.

 

Jetée du North   (Ex  E-0842) - MONACO

And for a better view, here it is an almost identical postcard

 

DOUBTFUL - Madagascar 2014

Code: MDG-2014-01
Release Date: 2014
Title: Lighthouses
Format: Minisheet with 3 stamps

DOUBTFUL - Benin 2014

Code: BEN-2014-01
Release Date: 2014
Title: The tallest lighthouses in the world
Format: Minisheet with 2 stamps

DOUBTFUL - Djibouti 2014

Code: DJI-2014-01
Release Date: 2014
Title: 70 Anniv of the liberation of Leningrad
Format: Minisheet with 5 stamps
Lighthouse: Rostral Column (Upper right corner)

20140901 - ISLE of MAN

Code: IOM-2014-03

Release Date: September 01, 2014

Postal Authority: Isle of Man Post Office
Title: Dark Sky Discovery
Format: Serie of 4 stamps
Sheets of: 20 stamps
Stamp Dimensions (mm): 62,2 x 31,1
Perf: 14
Currency: Pound
Design: Isle of Man Advertising
Texts: Howard Parkin BSc FRAS
Photos: Ron Strathdee,Glenn Whorrall
Printing Process: Offset Lithography 4 colours plus metallic
Paper: 110 gms PVA Gummed
Printed by: BDT

Stamp N. 4

230p  (2.30 pounds)
Service: Large Letter SIGNED FOR IoM, UK and Channel Islands
101 to 250 gr

Lighthouse: Langness (A-4762)

 

COVER of PRESENTATION PACK

Another astonishing view of Langness

Links: IOM Stamps Web Site

 

20140918 - GREAT BRITAIN

Both images are from the FIRST DAY COVER
Parts of the First Day Cancellation in black can be seen
in the corners of the stamps

Code: GBR-2014-01
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Postal Authority: Royal Mail
Title: Seaside Architecture
Format: Serie of 6 stamps and Minisheet of 4 stamps
Currency: Pound
Design: Why Not Associates
Photos: Lee Mawdsley
Printed by: ISP (Stamps) - Enschede (Minisheet)

Stamp 4 of the serie

97 (0.97 Pound)
Service: International Mail Europe up to 20g or
World outside Europe up to 10g

Lighthouse: Southwold (A-2272)

 

 

Stamp 3 of the Minisheet

1.28 Pound
Service: International Letter outside Europe up to 20g

Faux Lighthouse
Ride of the amusement park installed on the pier
named "Helter Skelter"

RELATED ITEM:
What appear to be the First Day Cover of the Minisheet shows another lighthouse in the design...

St.Mary´s Lighthouse (Ex A-2748)

Thank you very much Jürgen (http://europa-stamps.blogspot.com) for the information.

20140808 - ISLE of MAN

Code: IOM-2014-02

Release Date: August 08, 2014

Postal Authority: Isle of Man Post Office
Title: The History of Manx Playing Cards
Format: Serie of 6 stamps
Sheets of: 20 stamps
Stamp Dimensions (mm): 32 x 40
Perf: 13
Currency: Pound
Design: EJC Design
Texts: Alison Crellin
Printing Process: Offset Lithography 4 colours
Paper: 110 gms PVA Gummed
Printed by: Lowe Martin

This issue was a surprise.  Stamps of playing cards, and more... lighthouses inside playing cards inside stamps.   The six stamps depict different designs of playing cards.  The central image is the front of the card and the borders in colours, represents how they looked from behind.  A candidate to the bizarre issue of the year.

At this moment, I can identified 2 stamps with the same lighthouse.  But this set deserve a personal look, because I have my doubts about the 75p stamp.  I will update this post,  if necessary.

 

 

 

42p (0.42 pound)
Service: IOM, England and Channel Islands
STD letter up to 100g

Lighthouse: Douglas Head, seen from the sea

 

 

 

110p  (1.10 pound)
Service: Europe Letters range 21-40gs

Lighthouse: Douglas Head, seen from land

 

 

 

 

20140808 - ISLE of MAN

Code: IOM-2014-01

Release Date: August 08, 2014

Postal Authority: Isle of Man Post Office

Title: 100th Anniversary of the Panama Canal

Format: Miniature Sheet with 1 stamp

Dimensions (mm): 110 x 70

Stamp Dimensions (mm): 28 x 42

Perf: 14

Facial / Currency: 3.50 Pound

Design: Isle of Man Advertising / Allison Crellin

Printing Process: Offset Litho 4 colours

Paper: 110 gms

Printed by: BDT

 

Lighthouse: the miniature sheet depicts the passage of Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth through the Panama Canal just in front of one of many lights of this waterway. The design is a collage of images. I can not identified with a 100% of certainty wich one is. Next, I show a posible candidate,  the J-6132 (Leading Light). Or maybe it´s another, but with the same design.

 

J-6132 (Panama Canal Main West Entrance - Bahia Limon-
Leading Light Front N.4)  (*)

 

 

Also, on the cover of the Presentation Pack we have another lighthouse.  In this case is a more familiar.   The view is from the Atlantic entrance to the Canal, and the lighthouse (I draw a circle on it) is the Gatún Northbound Rear.

 

 

 

 

 

(*) Photo from Online List of Lights: http://listoflights.org/leuchtfeuer/detail?id=22411. Thanks Alex.

 

DOUBTFUL - Togo 2014

 

Code: TOG-2014-02
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Title: Great Painters - Ivan Aivazovsky
Format: Minisheet of 4 stamps and Block with 1 stamp

 

Oil Painting: Neapolitan Lighthouse  1842

20140730 - United States of America

Code: USA-2014-01
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Postal Authority: USPS
Title: 150 Anniversary of Civil War - 2014 issue
Format: 2 se-tenant stamps
Souvenir Sheet of: 12 stamps (6 sets)
Design: Phil Jordan
Mobile Bay Stamp: Painting by Julian Oliver Davidson (1886)
Facial:  Permanent Value "FOREVER" (First Class Mail 1 ounce)

Battle of Mobile Bay stamp

 

Mobile Point Lighthouse in Fort Morgan
(1822 - 1864)

 

 

The available image of the stamp is not clear enough, so until the stamps be released, we can take a look at the original painting.

Sector of the Painting by J.O.Davidson with
a clear view of the lighthouse

 

Next, two images of the remains of the lighthouse after this battle

from the US National Park Service website

Photo: US National Archives

Photo: US National Archives

 

 

I recommend to read about the lighthouses of this area.  It´s a history of construction and destruction (by human and nature).

 

 

Mobile Point: http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=597 

Sand Island: http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=649 

 

 



DOUBTFUL - Togo 2014

Code: TOG-2014-01
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Title: 100 Anniv Panama Channel
Format: Minisheet of 4 stamps and Block with 1 stamp

20140618 - TURKEY

 

 

Code: TUR-2014-02

Release Date: June 18, 2014

Postal Authority: PTT

Title: Official Stamps

Theme: Cultural Assets

Format: 4 stamps

Currency: Turkish Lira - TRY

Lighthouse: Kiz Kulesi

 

25 Kurus  (0.25 TRY)

 

1.25 (TRY)

 

 

20140531 - CUBA

Code: CUB-2014-01
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Postal Authority: ECC - Empresa de Correos de Cuba
Title: III International CUBA Cup of Philately and 50 Anniv of the FFC (Cuban Philatelic Federation)
Format: Block with 1 stamp -  Imperforated
Design: Ernesto Gamboa
Lighthouse: Castillo del Morro - La Habana

Thanks Jaap for the alert on this issue.

*** More news from CUBA ***

 

There are no official plan of issues.  All the news are unofficial.  But apparently we will have a new Lighthouses issue in 2014.  
4 stamps with a release date of October 5.

You can check the tentative plan of issue  HERE  (in Spanish)

Thanks to the blog Filatelia desde Cuba for the additional images and info.

DOUBTFUL - Mali 2014

Code: MAI-2014-01
Release: 2014
Title: Whales and Lighthouses
Format: Minisheet with 2 stamps

DOUBTFUL - Guinea Ecuatorial 2014

Code: GUT-2014-01
Release: 2014
Title: Lighthouses of the world
Format: 6 blocks with 1 stamp each

Very, very doubtful.

Thanks Jaap for the alert and the images of this.

20140703 - GERMANY



Code: GER-2014-01

Release Date: July 03, 2014

Postal Authority: Deutsche Post

Title: Lighthouses

Format: Serie of 2 stamps

Sheets of: 10 stamps
Dimensions (mm): 35 x 35
Sheet Dimensions (mm): 210 x 105  (5 x 2)

Currency: Euro - EUR
Design: Prof. Johannes Graf, Dortmund
Photo: Reinhard Scheiblich, Norderstedt
Paper: Coated, white and fluorescent Postwertzeichen paper DP II
Printing Process: Offset Multicolor
Printed by: Bagel Security-Print GmbH & Co. KG, Mönchengladbach

 

 



45 (0.45 EUR)
Service: Postcard
Lighthouse: Buk

 

 

 

60 (0.60 EUR)
Service: Local Standar Letter 20 grs
Lighthouse: Pellworm

 



**Thanks Klaus for the alert**