NEWS Issue Number 165
Summer 2019
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In this issue... Age of Rebellion: The Isle of Man in the Seventeenth Century – Greetings in Manx – Moby Dick: Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Herman Melville - 100 Years of Transatlantic Flight – Our favourite picks from 2019 - Our One Small Step stamps receive star approval and much more!
Welcome to our Summer 2019 Newsletter Dear Collector Fastyr mie, Kys t’ou? Failt to our 2019 Summer Newsletter. As I write to you, we have just celebrated the 46th Anniversary of the Isle of Man Post Office and I have completed 38 years of service. My goodness where have all those years gone? At the end of June two of my colleagues Phil Kerruish and Robin Callister who joined the Post Office in the mid 70s retired. We had a little reminisce before they left and spoke about the heady days of philatelic exhibitions around the world, and the many customers who they knew personally. In our world, years are identified by significant issue dates, to be reminded of our landmark issues and milestones is very satisfying. I recently received a 25th anniversary card in the post from David Plant of Staffordshire saying thanks for our service to him. It is tremendously important to me that we value and respect all of our collectors, but especially those who have remained loyal standing order customers or frequent non standing order collectors.
As a thank you, we have included a Manx phrase book with our August despatch. We thought it might be fun to share with you some useful Manx phrases in the 2019 UNESCO Year of Indigenous Language and to celebrate our Greetings in Manx issue. Please drop me a line if you have any stories to share in our quest to spread our language far and wide. Gura mie ayd
Maxine Cannon, General Manager, Isle of Man Stamps & Coins
BUNSCOILL GHAELGAGH IN THE SPOTLIGHT To celebrate our Greetings in Manx stamp collection we recently visited the Bunscoill Ghaelgagh in St Johns together with ITV Granada Reports. We had the chance to observe a full geography lecture, held in Manx Gaelic, and to interview teacher Adrian Caine and some of the children for an ITV Granada Report. It was amazing to witness how these little people manage to switch from English to Manx as if it was the most normal thing in the world. And rightly so, as it should be! We hope that all efforts of Cuture Vannin, The Manx Language Society and our Stamps & Coins team will pay off and one day our language will be spread far beyond the borders of our Island. You can view the video of these wonderful children at www.iompost.com/greetings.
NEWS FLASH – INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION SIGNED COVER Commissioned by the Sieger of Lorch Germany, this cover is an official space mail released by an independent postal ONLY 10 administration. The cover is authenticated with a detailed certificate from Walter AVAILABLE! Hopferwieser from Austria, the associate expert for space mail and is signed by the total crew, something incredibly rare. 2
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GREETINGS IN MANX – SPREADING CHEER DURING MANX NATIONAL WEEK The first week in July saw Manx National Week take place and Isle of Man Stamps and Coins were on board to spread Manx cheer far and wide! A new stamp collection ‘Greetings in Manx’ was issued during the week which also coincided with the 2019 Year of Indigenous Languages, providing us with the perfect opportunity to celebrate our Manx language and heritage. Visitors to Tynwald Day were encouraged to get involved by posting their very own Manx greeting across the globe using complimentary postage paid postcards by Isle of Man Post Office and a selfie board was paraded around the event to capture the festivities. “Tivaal Aboo!” stickers (meaning Hurray For Tynwald ) were also gifted to visitors at the event.
LIMITED EDITION COINS PRESENTED TO HISLOP’S SON CONNOR Presentation boards of the 30th Anniversary £2 Hislop Coins are being signed by TT Riders and VIPs until after the Manx Grand Prix Classic TT in August this year. This year’s Isle of Man Classic TT will celebrate the life and career of Steve Hislop, one of the greatest British motorcycle racers of all time. Entitled ‘Back to the Future: The Hizzy Years’, this celebration will take place 30 years after Steve set the first ever 120mph lap around the TT Mountain Course, a speed that remains a benchmark for competitors three decades on. The boards will be auctioned off after the Manx Grand Prix in August and proceeds will be donated to the TT Riders Association. To mark this momentous year, Steve Hislop’s son Connor was presented with three special numbered editions of the Limited Edition Coin and Stamp Gift Pack. You can view this limited edition collectible at www.iompost.com/hislop.
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Back left to right: Bill Snelling, Babs Cowley, Janet Quayle, Maxine Cannon and Paul Quayle Front: Connor’s Grandfather with Connor Hislop.
59 CLUB PRESENTED WITH FRAMED 60TH ANNIVERSARY LIMITED EDITION COVER In June we proudly presented the 59 Club with a framed 60th Anniversary Limited Edition Cover at the TT Grandstand. With only 500 available, these vibrant covers were issued to mark the Club’s visit to the TT in their 60th year and feature a special postmark inspired by the fantastic 59 Club badge which has become an icon of British motorcycle culture. It also includes an insightful filler card as written by Christian Riou. They are available to purchase at www.iompost.com/59club LIONS CLUB 50TH CHARTER ANNIVERSARY In May representatives from the Lions club visited the Island to mark the Club’s 50th Charter Anniversary. Isle of Man Post Office was delighted to provide a tribute to the club in the form of a slogan die which was present on all mail from 17th – 25th May 2019.
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Issue Date: 01.07.19
Isle of Man Post Office is pleased to spotlight this most tempestuous period in Manx history with a tale of insurrection and intrigue featuring a cast of characters famed on the Island and ripe for reappraisal. At the centre of events is the reputation of Illiam Dhone, a Manx hero to some, a traitor to others, the debate continues. Charles Guard writes… The 17th century was a troubled time for the Isle of Man. The Island was ruled and owned by the Stanley family of Knowsley in Lancashire, and between 1627 and 1651 it was James Stanley, the 7th Earl of Derby, who was in control. There was unrest from the very start of his rule. Part of the trouble was that the Manx people objected to paying the taxes imposed on them by the Church and one man, who was sentenced by the court to prison, was rescued and carried away by the mob. Furthermore, the Earl had decided to change the ancient system which allowed a tenant farmer to pass his tenancy on to his son. The Earl put an end to that and brought great uncertainty to Manx farmers. The risings against the Earl and his wife, the Countess Charlotte, were mostly led by members of a prominent Manx family, the Christians, whose ancestral home was at Milntown near Ramsey. Edward Christian, son of the vicar of Maughold, was the first to rebel. He had reached an important position in the Earl’s administration as head of the militia, but set up a military camp at which he made the men take an oath of loyalty to him rather than the Earl. Among the many things he proposed was that the Members of the House of Keys should be elected by the people and not appointed by the Earl. For this and other treasonable ideas he was imprisoned in Peel Castle and died there in 1661. Meanwhile another family member, William Christian, also a high officer in the Earl’s employment, started another rebellion. By the 1640s England was in turmoil as civil war had broken out. Charles I had been beheaded and the country was divided between Royalists and 4
Parliamentarians. The Isle of Man was a Royalist stronghold, and many supporters of the King had fled to the safety of its shores and received a welcome from the Derbys and were royally entertained in Castle Rushen.
Eventually, in 1651, the Earl decided he had to go to England to fight for the cause, taking an army of Manxmen with him. He left his wife, the Countess, in charge. He fared badly, being captured, court martialled and executed. This left the Island in a vulnerable position with no one to defend it and within days over 40 Parliamentary warships were anchored in Ramsey Bay. Without reference to the Countess William Christian decided to surrender the Island to avoid bloodshed. He called a great meeting of 800 men at his house at Ronaldsway and persuaded them to overpower the various forts on the Island in preparation for the surrender. Colonel Duckenfield of the Parliamentary army came ashore and sent William Christian in to Castle Rushen to demand the surrender of the Countess Charlotte. She and all the Royalists were forced to leave the Island. Christian was eventually appointed Governor of the Island on behalf of the Parliamentarians, but his fortunes changed dramatically when the monarchy was restored and the next Earl of Derby, the 8th Earl, accused him of treason. A trial was held in Castle Rushen at which Christian refused to plead, and so he was sentenced to death and executed at Hango Hill in January 1663. He became a hero to the Manx people and was nicknamed Illiam Dhone, or Brown William, on account of the colour of his hair.
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57p – Edward Christian imprisoned in Peel Castle. Inset: 7th Earl of Derby. 90p – A Royalist ball, Castle Rushen. Inset: Countess Charlotte. £1.10 – Meeting at Illiam Dhone’s Ronaldsway farm. Inset: Illiam Dhone. Our contribution to the SEPAC 2019 project. £1.52 – Colonel Duckenfield’s troops land at Ramsey. Inset: Illiam Dhone. £1.60 – Illiam Dhone delivers letter to Countess Charlotte. Inset: Oliver Cromwell. £1.85 – Trial of Illiam Dhone, Derby House, Castle Rushen. Inset: 8th Earl of Derby.
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Illustrations: ..................................................Peter Davies Text:.............................................................Charles Guard Design:............................................................. EJC Design Printer:........................................................... Lowe Martin Process: ............................................. Offset Lithography
Colours: ................................................................................ 4 Paper: ..........................................110 gms PVA gummed Perforations: ....................................................13 per 2cm Stamp Size: ....................................................52 x 40mm Format: ............................................................. Sheets of 9 Date of Issue: ...............................................1st July 2019 5
New Collection Issue Date: 04.07.19
The Isle of Man Post Office (Oik Postagh Ellan Vannin) is pleased to encourage popular use of the Manx language by presenting this joyful set of six stamps which is a collaboration between Culture Vannin and Manx artist Mary Cousins. A story in pictures of a day in the life of two Manx mice forms an introduction to basic greetings in Manx Gaelic. The issue coincides with the 120th anniversary of the Manx Language Society and the International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019, of which Culture Vannin is a partner organisation. Manx - The Mother Tongue of the Isle of Man Y Ghaelg - Çhengey ny Mayrey Vannin
Jamys O’Meara writes… In many ways, the Manx language is one of the Isle of Man’s success stories, both nationally and internationally. Our Manx medium school, Bunscoill Ghaelgagh, continues to go from strength to strength and, through the Department of Education, Sport and Culture’s Manx Language Service, there are now well over a thousand children learning Manx across all schools. With more adults learning Manx too, we are seeing increased use of the language in a wide variety of social contexts. Although it is small in terms of its number of speakers, its impact on worldwide efforts to protect and promote endangered languages is huge. The Isle of Man is now looked to by many as an example of best practice. As a result of well organised community based initiatives over the last century and a half, coupled with targeted Isle of Man Government support, the language has seen an upsurge of interest in recent years. The Manx language is now available for all ages to enjoy, within nurseries, schools, adult classes and the wider community. It is also a unique identifier for the business community as well as for residents of the Isle of Man as a whole. Manx is indigenous to the Isle of Man and so, in many ways, its very structure holds the story of our Island. One of three Goidelic or Gaelic languages in the Celtic family, it has a great affinity to Irish and Scottish Gaelic, but with its own
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unique orthography or spelling system. Some have argued that it has also been influenced by Norse and English. The Manx language has a strong oral tradition, with a great number of narrative ballads and carvals (songs based on religious texts). The oldest written text in the language ‘An Account of the Isle of Man in Song’ has been dated on internal evidence to the early 16th century. During the 18th century, the language flowered, primarily due to the influence of the Church. The language faced hostility throughout the 19th century, though, due to a myriad of factors including emigration, mass tourism and education in English. This year, 2019, marks the 120th anniversary of Yn Cheshaght Ghailckagh, the Manx Language Society, which was set up to support and promote the language at a time when people were exploring all aspects of Manx culture and identity. The Society continues to be the largest publisher of books in Manx Gaelic, giving the language an ever expanding corpus which has been complemented, in more recent years, by literature produced by Culture Vannin. The Manx language is one of the Island’s most important cultural assets; it is an Island success story and something in which we all can take great pride. To find out more about the many ways to learn and enjoy Manx, www.learnmanx.com is full of free resources and links.
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Our Stamps: A Special Day in the Life of Manx Mice
1st - Moghrey Mie (Morr-a-My) – Good Morning. An early rise on a beautiful sunny morning. EU - Kys T’ou (Kis-Tow) – How Are You? The first to arrive at the Tynwald Fair. Large - Slaynt Vie (Slent-Vy) – Cheers (or Good Health) In view of Culture Vannin HQ sampling takes place in the Manx produce tent.
£1:30 - Fastyr Mie (Fass-ter-My) – Good Afternoon (or Evening). Time enough for an ice cream on Port Erin beach. RoW - Slane Lhiu (Slenn-L’yoo) – Goodbye (plural). Sailing home as the sun sets. £2:05 – Oie Vie (Ee-Vy) – Good Night. The end of a perfect day.
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TECHNICAL DETAILS Illustrations: .............................................Mary Cousins Text: . ............................. Jamys O’Meara/Culture Vannin Design: ...................................................... EJC Design Printer: ..................................................... Lowe Martin Process: ...........................................Offset Lithography Colours: ................................................................... 4
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New Collection Issue Date: 22.07.19
The Isle of Man Post Office is proud to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of American author Herman Melville, best known for his classic novel Moby-Dick, the tale of a one-legged whaling captain’s relentless pursuit of the whale that took his leg. Yet if you’ve not read Moby-Dick, the chances are you will not know of its Isle of Man connection… a character called ‘The Manxman’. Manx author John Quirk writes… Whenever a new ‘best 100 novels ever’ list is compiled, the chances are that the words Moby-Dick will appear somewhere on that list. In a top 100 published by The Guardian, the novel was described as ‘wise, funny and gripping… continues to cast a long shadow over American literature’. Yet the book had a somewhat inauspicious early life. Written by American author Herman Melville and published in 1851, Moby-Dick - or The Whale, as it was known in Britain - is narrated by the character Ishmael and focuses on the crew of the whaler, Pequod, led by Captain Ahab. The novel took its time to be considered a classic. It received a decidedly mixed response from critics and was far from being a bestseller; it sold just 500 copies in the UK, compared with the 6,700 sales for Melville’s first book, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, and in the US it sold fewer copies than each of the author’s first five books. After Melville’s death in 1891, several of his novels were reprinted and caught the attention of the New York literary scene - slowly, the acclaim for Moby-Dick grew and by the 1920s US critics and readers had started to embrace it. The novel’s reputation was cemented over the next few decades. The story is much more than just a crazed sailor chasing a whale. It explores race, religion, good and evil, social status, the obsession of power - often with lengthy speeches that have little or nothing to do with the plot. But what of The Manxman? And why would Melville choose a character from, in those days, a little-known island on the other side of the Atlantic? The Manxman is the oldest member of the Pequod’s crew - he is described as ‘sepulchral’ - and Melville paints him as something of a mystic, a man who has ‘studied signs’ and who Ishmael says has ‘preternatural 8
powers of discernment’. Most sailors are superstitious folk and the Manxman’s role is to wax lyrical on the omens, good and bad, facing the crew of the Pequod. Towards the end of the book, in Chapter 125 The Log and Line, the Manxman’s home gets a mention, while speaking to Ahab: ‘What’s that? There now’s a patched professor in Queen Nature’s granite-founded College; but me thinks he’s too subservient. Where wert thou born?’ ‘In the little rocky Isle of Man, sir.’ ‘Excellent! Thou’st hit the world by that.’ ‘I know not, sir, but I was born there.’ ‘In the Isle of Man, hey? Well, the other way, it’s good. Here’s a man from Man; a man born in once independent Man, and now unmanned of Man…’ The Manxman also appears as a character in a MobyDick card-driven narrative adventure game, created in 2013 following a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. The Manxman’s character card carries a quote from Chapter 99, The Doubloon, which reinforces his mystic qualities: ‘If the White Whale be raised, it must be in a month and a day, when the sun stands in some one of these signs. I’ve studied signs, and know their marks; they were taught me two score years ago, by the old witch in Copenhagen. Now, in what sign will the sun then be? The horse-shoe sign; for there it is, right opposite the gold. And what’s the horse-shoe sign? The lion is the horse-shoe sign—the roaring and devouring lion. Ship, old ship! my old head shakes to think of thee.’ Melville started writing Moby-Dick in early 1850. By that time, Manx pioneers had emigrated around the globe, the majority to the US. Indeed, the oldest Manx society in North America - in Cleveland - was formed in 1851, the year Moby-Dick was published. The first Manx arrived in Cleveland in 1826, having sailed into New York and taking a steamboat up the Hudson River.
Melville, who lived in New York, spent five years at sea himself, including a stint aboard the merchant ship St Lawrence, which sailed to Liverpool and back. In 1841 he joined the crew of the whaling ship Acushnet, visiting the Caribbean before rounding the Cape Horn and sailing the South Pacific, a period which gave him the inspiration for Moby-Dick. It would appear Melville either met a Manxman in New York, or during his time at sea, and perhaps the character of The Manxman was born after the author had been regaled with stories of seafaring Vikings and tales of Manx legends, including Manannan Mac Lir. Indeed, the description of The Manxman - grey-haired and sepulchral - may have been inspired by the Manx Son of the Sea.
Melville cast his net far and wide when creating his vast list of characters, with other crew members coming from several European countries, China, Chile and India, and The Manxman isn’t as prominent a character as others depicted in this stamp issue. Even if you haven’t read Moby-Dick, you will know the names Ishmael and Captain Ahab. Queequeg is from a fictional cannibalistic island in the South Seas and befriends Ishmael from the start, playing a prominent role early in the tale. Starbuck is the young chief mate, an honourable Quaker from Nantucket, who opposes Ahab’s quest as madness, but crucially doesn’t have the backing of the crew to overthrow his captain. Stubb is the ship’s second mate, an articulate, good-natured sailor armed at all times with his pipe and a smile. We will probably never know the identity of the person who inspired The Manxman, but whoever it was, he certainly left a lasting impression on Herman Melville.
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TECHNICAL DETAILS Images:.......................................................Juan Moore Text:. ...........................................................John Quirk Design:....................................................... EJC Design Printer:...............................................................Cartor Process:...........................................Offset Lithography Colours ...................................................................... 4
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Paper:........................................ 110gms PVA gummed Perforations: ............................................14 per 2cms Stamp size:............................................. 45.79 x 24mm No. of Stamps:............................................................ 6 Format:.........................................15 stamps per sheet Date of Issue .........................................22nd July 2019
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New Collection Issue Date: 20.08.19
The Isle of Man Post Office is proud to commemorate a century of achievement in transatlantic aviation by showcasing the first crossings of the Atlantic by aircraft in 1919 and a selection of the most significant crossings since. The issue was conceived as a response to Group Captain Mark Manwaring’s attempt to break the record for the circumnavigation of the globe. His ‘Flight of the Navigator’ mission aims to significantly support the RAF Benevolent Fund as part of RAF100 in celebration of one hundred years of the Royal Air Force. All illustrations for this issue were created by artist and designer Rory Peters at Glazier Design in London. They are based on photographs from the period and have been illustrated in an Art Deco style, inspired by the wonderful aviation and transport posters of the late teens and twenties, the height of the Art Deco period. We are very grateful to Brian Riddle of the National Aerospace Library at the Royal Aeronautical Society for his research and writing and for helping us find images on which to base our illustrations and to Ben Glazier for conceiving the idea with RAF Group Captain Mark Manwaring. Through Ben and Mark we are very pleased to be supporting the RAFBF with their fundraising efforts in their 100th year. THE RAFBF helps service personnel and their families when times become challenging. In 2018, the oldest person they helped was 102, the youngest, just two weeks old. You can support them at rafbf.org. 1st Class - Curtiss NC-4 This stamp features the Curtiss NC-4, a United States Navy flying boat that flew from Trepassey Bay, Newfoundland to Lisbon, arriving May 27 1919, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by air. Under the command of Lt. Cdr. Albert C. Read, the NC-4 covered a distance of 2,400 miles and after arriving in Lisbon, made a symbolic flight to Plymouth from where the Pilgrim Fathers had departed for America on The Mayflower. EU - Ryan NYP The Spirit of St. Louis (Registration: N-X-211) officially known as the ‘Ryan NYP’ was a single engine, singleseat, high wing monoplane that was flown by Charles Lindbergh on May 20–21, 1927, on the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France, for which Lindbergh won the $25,000 Orteig Prize. Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field, Garden City, New York, and landed 33 hours 30 minutes later at Aéroport Le Bourget in Paris, France, a distance of approximately 3,600 miles (5,800 km).
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Large - Vickers Vimy This stamp features the Vickers Vimy, the aircraft that won the Northcliffe prize for the first non-stop crossing of the North Atlantic by pilot John Alcock and navigator Arthur Whitten-Brown. Their marathon 16 hours 27 minutes flight in a Vickers Vimy IV (2 x 360 hp Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII engines) on June 14-15 1919 took off from St. Johns, Newfoundland and landed in a Derrygimla bog near Clifden, Galway, after a flight of 1,950 miles. RoW - R34 Dirigible On July 2, 1919 under the command of Major G. H. Scott the R34 airship left East Fortune and began the first transatlantic airship crossing and the first double crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. The 3,130 mile journey was completed in 108 hours 12 minutes. The return flight, which commenced on July 10, reached Pelham, East Anglia on July 13, prevailing winds making the return trip much faster at only 75 hours 3 minutes. £1:52 - English Electric Canberra B.2 The English Electric Canberra is a British first-generation jet-powered medium bomber that was manufactured during the 1950s and set a world record on February 21, 1951, serial no. WD932 made the first direct, nonrefuelled Atlantic crossing by a jet aircraft in 4 hours and 37 minutes. Piloted by RAF Squadron Leader A.E. Callard, the aircraft was sent to America to act as the pattern for an order of 403 Canberras for the US Air Force. £2:55 - De Havilland DH.84 Dragon In 1932, Amy Johnson married Jim Mollison, who had proposed to her while they were flying together, just eight hours after meeting. In July 1933, they first flew G-ACCV, named “Seafarer,” a de Havilland DH.84 Dragon non-stop from Pendine Sands, South Wales. They were heading to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, but the aircraft ran out of fuel and crashlanded near Bridgeport, Connecticut and both were injured. Earlier that year in April 1933 Amy Johnson and her husband Jim visited the Isle of Man.
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Paper: ....................................................................................110 gms PVA gummed Perforations: ...........................................................................................14 per 2cms Stamp Size: .............................................................................................50 x 42 mm No. of Stamps: ...........................................................................................................6 Format: .......................................................................................12 stamps per sheet Date of Issue: ...........................................................................................20.08.2019
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Standing Order Dispatch Date: 20.08.19
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100 Years of Transtlantic Flight Issued 20.08.19 Set 1st, EU, Large Letter, RoW, £1.52 and £2.55 XK31 XK81 £8.14 Presentation Pack XK41 - £8.89 First Day Cover - XK91 £8.84 Sheet Set (sheets of 12) XK66 XK67 £97.68 Moby Dick Issued 22.07.19 Set 1st, EU, Large Letter, RoW, £1.52 and £1.85 XJ31 XJ81 £7.44 Presentation Pack XJ41 - £8.19 First Day Cover - XJ91 £8.14 Herman Melville Birthday Cover - XJ96 £17.50 Sheet Set (sheets of 15) XJ66 XJ67 £111.60 Greetings in Manx Issued 04.07.19 Set 1st, EU, Large Letter, £1.30, RoW, £2.05 XI31 XI81 £7.42 Presentation Pack XI41 - £8.17 First Day Cover - XI91 £8.12 Sheet Set (sheets of 20) XI66 XI67 £148.40 Age of Rebellion Issued 01.07.19 Set 57p, 90p, £1.10, £1.52, £1.60, £1.85 XH31 XH81 £7.54 Presentation Pack XH41 - £8.29 First Day Cover - XH91 £8.24 Prestige Booklet XH71 XH72 £15.08 Booklet Pane XH36 XH37 £7.54 Sheet Set XH66 XH67 £67.86 2019 SEPAC Folder XH43 - £15.00
Standing Order Dispatch Date: 24.05.19
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Eminent Victorian Engineers Set 1st, EU, Large Letter, £1.85, £2.05, £2.10 XG31 Presentation Pack XG41 First Day Cover - Sheet Set (sheets of 20) XG66 Maritime History Set 1st, EU, Large Letter, £1.35, RoW, £2.05 XF31 Presentation Pack XF41 First Day Cover - Sheet Set (sheets of 20) XF66 One Small Step Part 1 Set 2 x 1st, 2 x EU, 2 x LL, 2 x RoW XE31 Presentation Pack XE41 First Day Cover - Commemorative Sheetlet XE64 Prestige Booklet XE71 Booklet Pane XE36 Sheet Set (sheets of 24) XE66 D-Day 75th Anniversary Set 2 x 1st, 2 x EU, 2 x LL, 2 x RoW XD31 Presentation Pack XD41 First Day Cover - Commemorative Sheetlet XD64 Sheet Set (sheets of 16) XD66
Issued 24.05.19 XG81 £8.57 - £9.32 XG91 £9.27 XG67 £171.40 Issued 18.05.19 XF81 £7.47 - £8.22 XF91 £8.17 XF67 £149.40 Issued 29.04.19 XE81 £8.14 - £8.89 XE91 £8.84 XE65 £10.25 XE72 £16.28 XE37 £8.14 XE67 £97.68 Issued 22.04.19 XD81 £8.14 - £8.89 XD91 £8.84 XD65 £8.14 XD67 £65.12
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Standing Order Dispatch Date: 12.02.19 Isle of Man Wildlife Set 1st x 5, EU x 1, Large x 2, RoW x 2 Presentation Pack First Day Cover Sheet Set x 4 Sets (sheets of 40) Self Adhesive Booklet Self Adhesive Booklet Pane Variable Value Definitive Set (10 x First Class Values) VVD First Day Cover Europa Sheet (sheet of 10) Europa First Day Cover
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“All Aboard Please’ Manx Buses Part Three Set 52p, 83p, £1.25, £1.40, £1.87, £2.02 XA31 Presentation Pack XA41 First Day Cover - Sheet Set (sheets of 16) XA66
Issued 29.01.19 XA81 £7.89 - £8.64 XA91 £8.59 XA67 £157.80
The Year of the Pig Set 52p, £2.02, £2.42, £2.95 Presentation Pack First Day Cover Sheet Set (sheets of 20)
XB31 XB41 - XB66
Issued 22.01.19 XB81 £7.91 - £8.66 XB91 £8.61 XB67 £158.20
WP31 WP41 - WP66 WP35 WP32 WP50 WP43 WP60 WP64 WP85
Issued 29.10.18 WP81 £8.00 - £8.75 WP91 £8.70 WP67 £80.00 WP36 £12.48 WP82 £4.16 - £32.50 - £20.00 - £100.00 WP65 £8.00 - £17.50
Standing Order Dispatch Date: 29.10.18 A Beano Christmas Set 1st x 2, EU x 2, £1.25 x 2, ROW x 2 Presentation Pack First Day Cover Sheet Set (sheets of 20) Self Adhesive Sheet Self Adhesive Set Beano Framed Sheetlet Beano Collectors Folder Limited Edition Comic Strip Print Beano Sheetlet Beano Fan Pack Beanotown Post Office “Top Secret Message” Kit Isle of Man Lighthouses 200 Set 52p, £1.53, £2.60, £3.10 Presentation Pack First Day Cover Sheet Set (sheets of 20) Calf of Man Signed Cover Manx Folk Traditions Set 1st, EU, £1.01, £1.40, £1.75, £2.15 Presentation Pack First Day Cover Sheet Set (sheets of 20) Hunt the Wren £2 Coin Hunt the Wren Christmas Card & Coin Gift Pack 70th Birthday of Prince Charles Set 52p, 83p, £1.01, £1.25, £1.75, £2.42 Presentation Pack First Day Cover Sheet Set (sheets of 16)
WP40 WO31 WO41 - WO66 - WN31 WN41 - WN66 AI36 AI37 WL31 WL41 - WL66
- £10.99 Issued 18.10.18 WO81 £7.75 - £8.50 WO91 £8.45 WO67 £155.00 WO94 £22.50 Issued 8.10.18 WN81 £7.66 - £8.41 WN91 £8.36 WN67 £153.20 - £8.50 - £22.50 Issued 26.09.18 WL81 £7.78 - £8.53 WL91 £8.48 WL67 £124.48t
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Our favourite picks of 2019 so far!
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Manx Buses Part Three Presentation Pack XA41 £8.64 The images featured within this four page, glossy deluxe folder were specially commissioned from renowned motorsport and transport artist Peter Hearsey. Local historian and author Richard Davis provides expert commentary. This set features Manx buses from both the Douglas Corporation and Road Services fleets from the 1950s through to nationalisation in 1976 when the two fleets were amalgamated under government control as Isle of Man National Transport. Wildlife Europa Sheetlet Mint XC68 CTO XC69 £8.30
The striking Stonechat bird which forms our EU stamp from the Isle of Man Wildlife collection is perfecly captured by photographer Brian Liggins and is our contribution to the EUROPA group of stamp nations ‘Birds’ themed collaborative project for 2019. We are excited to be part of PostEurop’s “Europa Stamps Bird Project 2019” which connects a sound file to the Europa stamp. The result is a smart and fun addition which will add to your stamp viewing experience. Maritime History First Day Cover XF91 £8.17
Visit www.iompost.com/europa-wildlife for full details on how to activate the app.
The original paintings of Manx artist and mariner, the late John Halsall are the centrepiece of this wonderful First Day Cover, accompanied by an illustrated information card with commentary by Manx National Heritage Curator of Social History Matthew Richardson.
D-Day Commemorative Sheetlet Mint XD64 CTO XD95 £8.14 This A5 sheetlet displays the set of eight stamps from the D-Day 75 collection which features evocative images in a ‘stamp on stamp’ design. Presented inside a special folder. One Small Step – George Abbey Signed Cover XE94 £60.00 This commemorative cover is exclusively signed by former center Director of NASA Johnson Space Center, George Abbey who was present when those famous words were spoken ‘The Eagle has landed’. The cover features evocative black and white imagery captured from ground control during Apollo 11, two of the remarkable stamps from the ‘One Small Step’ collection which are complete with hidden coordinates, and a unique one day only postmark dated 21.07.19 - the official moon landing date. 14
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ONE SMALL STEP – MARKING THE 50TH YEAR OF THE MOON LANDING
Major Tim Peake
Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin
Brian May CBE
Apollo 16 Astronaut Charlie Duke
Ben Glazier of Glazier Design, who designed the One Small Step Moon landing Stamps for Isle of Man Post Office said “I was born during the Apollo 11 mission 30 minutes after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin re-joined Michael Collins in the Command Module, so the Moon landing has been with me all my life. To create a set of stamps to mark such an important event for humanity has a deep Stamp Designer Ben Glazier with Apollo 15 personal meaning for me. Astronaut Al Worden. I was able to show the One Small Step stamps to some of the legends behind the Apollo programme. George Abbey, the ‘Astronaut Maker’ who picked all the crew, Mark Geyer, Head of Nasa’s Johnson Space Center and then at a cosmology event in Europe, we presented a set to Buzz Aldrin, Astronaut and Moonwalker, and the photographer of that iconic boot print. On behalf of Isle of Man Post Office, we presented sets to other Apollo astronauts, including Al Worden (Apollo 15), Rusty Schweickart (Apollo 9) Walt Cunningham (Apollo 7), Charlie Duke (Apollo 16) and Astronauts Chris Hadfield (Space Shuttle), Nicole Stott (Space Shuttle) and Garret Reisman (Space Shuttle and Spacex). It was truly humbling to be in the same room as people who had walked on the surface of the Moon, others who had spent weeks or months in space and those who will be taking the next generation of astronauts back to the Moon in the next few years.
As humanity moves out into space with planned missions returning to the Moon and then on to Mars, we are honoured to play a small part in this great human expansion.” View our full ‘One Small Step’ collection at www.iompost.com/moonlanding The Eagle Has Landed Commemorative Cover XE96 £15.00 A lavish limited edition collectible of only 1000, this golden anniversary special cover features a gold foil overprint of the Apollo 11 mission badge and two postmarks marking the 50th anniversary of the Moon-landing and Moon-walk.
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