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First up, GB collectors will remember the jigsaw-themed set issued in 1973 to mark our entry into what was then called the Common Market. Pressed to prepare something equivalent for our upcoming exit from the EU, Royal Mail have responded bluntly that "it does not intend to issue a stamp to mark the exit". Gibbons calls that response "firmly rebuffed". Naturally, those who support Brexit are up in arms and "intend to summon Royal Mail executives to explain their position".
As Hotspur said to Owen Glendower (roughly): They can summon them, but will they come?
Next, an Iraqi stamp-on-stamp issue (Centenary of the first Iraqi stamp) has caused bother because the 1917 stamp illustrated is actually a Baghdad overprint produced by the Brits who were occupying the place at the time. An Iraqi stamp, or not? There was controversy and presumably several frank exchanges of views, but it was sorted out eventually. The set came out seven weeks late.
A Gibbons simplified catalogue actually dates the first Iraqi stamps (also overprinted by the Brits) to a year later.
Lastly, athlete Zuzana Hejnova, whose image appears on the Czech Republic Rio Olympics set, is suing them for 1 million koruna (apparently they didn't ask her permission). Czech Post claim the image is of 'a female runner jumping over a hurdle'.
Zuzana's claim could be a hurdle too far, I suspect!
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That variable publication, Gibbons Stamp Monthly, has three interesting snippets of news in the current edition. These are all somewhat political, so read with care.
First up, GB collectors will remember the jigsaw-themed set issued in 1973 to mark our entry into what was then called the Common Market. Pressed to prepare something equivalent for our upcoming exit from the EU, Royal Mail have responded bluntly that "it does not intend to issue a stamp to mark the exit". Gibbons calls that response "firmly rebuffed". Naturally, those who support Brexit are up in arms and "intend to summon Royal Mail executives to explain their position".
As Hotspur said to Owen Glendower (roughly): They can summon them, but will they come?
Next, an Iraqi stamp-on-stamp issue (Centenary of the first Iraqi stamp) has caused bother because the 1917 stamp illustrated is actually a Baghdad overprint produced by the Brits who were occupying the place at the time. An Iraqi stamp, or not? There was controversy and presumably several frank exchanges of views, but it was sorted out eventually. The set came out seven weeks late.
A Gibbons simplified catalogue actually dates the first Iraqi stamps (also overprinted by the Brits) to a year later.
Lastly, athlete Zuzana Hejnova, whose image appears on the Czech Republic Rio Olympics set, is suing them for 1 million koruna (apparently they didn't ask her permission). Czech Post claim the image is of 'a female runner jumping over a hurdle'.
Zuzana's claim could be a hurdle too far, I suspect!
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