Details of Tristan da Cunha postage stamps issued during 2008.

Marine Invertebrates
Issued on 28th January 2008
available as :


20081 6 stamps (85p; 2 x 60p; 35p, 20p, 15p) for £2.75
20082 First Day Cover with 6 stamps for £3.00

     

Military Uniforms
Released on 3rd March 2008 and available as :

20083 6 stamps (£1 x 2; 20p x 2; 15p x 2) for £2.70 (as shown)

20084 First Day Cover with 6 stamps for £2.95

Sheetlets :

20085 ~ Mounted Dragoons Officer - top left ~ (6 x 15p) for 90p

20086 ~ Corporal Royal Artillery - top right ~ (6 x 15p) for 90p

20087 ~ RA Lieutenant - bottom left ~ (6 x 20p) for £1.20

20088 ~ RA Private - bottom centre~ (6 x 20p) for £1.20

20089 ~ Cape Regiment - top centre ~ (6 x £1) for £6

200810 ~ R S A Engineering Corps ~ bottom right ~ (6 x £1) for £6

90th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force
Released on 1st April 2008 and available as :

200811 ~ Sheetlet of 8 x 30p mint stamps showing Avro Vulcan for £2.40

200812 ~ Sheetlet of 8 x 30p mint stamps showing Hawker Hart for £2.40 (as shown left)

200813 ~ Sheetlet of 8 x 30p mint stamps showing Hawker Typhoon for £2.40

200814 ~ Sheetlet of 8 x 30p mint stamps showing SEPECAT Jaguar for £2.40

200815 ~ Sheetlet of 8 x 30p mint stamps showing Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a for £2.40

 

200816 ~ Mint set of 5 x 30p stamps (as shown on FDC left) for £1.50

 

200817 ~ Souvenir Sheet with £1.50 stamp (as shown on FDC left) for £1.50

200818 ~ First Day Cover with 5 x 30 p stamps (as shown above left) for £1.75

200819 ~ First Day Cover with £1.50 Souvenir Sheet (as shown left) for £1.75
60 years of Tristan Fisheries
Released on 1st July 2008 and available as :

200820 ~ First Day Cover with 6 stamps as shown right for £3.65

200821 ~ Set of six mint stamps (15p, 20p, 30p, 70p, 80p & £1.25) for £3.40

The stamps feature :

15p Boats in Calshot Harbour
20p Fishing Boats
30p Offloading and Loading Fish
70p Sorting Crawfish Tails
80p Rock Lobster Tails wrapped and packed
£1.25 Fishing for export

This important issue was released on 1st July 2008- the beginning of the fishing season. But until the shore-based fishing factory is re-built, Tristan fishermen will fish from MV Kelso, which will act as a factory ship.

Planned to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the Tristan fishing industry in 1948, the stamp issue's First Day Cover has been designed to highlight the total destruction of the Fish Processing Factory
on 13th February 2008 and its planned replacement.
For details of the fire and its aftermath and plans for the new factory
- visit Factory Fire Page and Factory Building Page.

It is hoped that friends of Tristan da Cunha across the world, as well as philatelists, will want to purchase the stamp issue as a souvenir, and to help support the Tristan da Cunha community as it faces a series of hardships, also including a fragile economy and loss of its heavy duty crane.

Specifications from CASCO
Designer:  Ross Watton 
Photographs: from Peter Day, Tristan da Cunha and the Tristan da Cunha Photo Portfolio organised by the Tristan Association - publishers can contact newseditor@tristandc.com for details
Printer:  The Lowe Martin Group
Process: High Resolution stochastic screening in four colour process offset lithography
Sheet Format: 20 (2 x 10) Printer’s own un-watermarked stamp paper
Perforation : 13 per 2cms

Life and Times of Allan Crawford
Released on 1st August 2008 to coincide with Mr Crawford's birthday

Available As :

200822 ~ First Day Cover with six stamps shown right for £3.75

200823 ~ Set of six Mint Stamps (15p, 20p, 30p, 70p, 80p & £1.25) for £3.50

Allan Crawford had a remarkable association with Tristan da Cunha and its people. It is appropriate that several prominent members of the Tristan da Cunha Association (which Allan founded and served as Newsletter Editor, Chairman, President and Life President) have contributed to the ideas and images for this issue.

We devote a full page to the life and times of Allan Bryant Crawford if you want to learn more - see Allan Crawford 1912 - 2007

Values & Designs:

15p – Allan B Crawford MBE
20p – The ‘Potato’ Stamp
50p – First Map
60p – Norwegian Scientific Expedition
85p – Meteorological Office, Marion Island
£1.20 – Royal Society Expedition

Specifications from CASCO

 
Designer:  Andrew Robinson

Acknowledgments:
Grateful thanks to the following for reference material and invaluable advice;
Ron Burn; Jamie Crawford Mike Faulds Ray Lloyd & Robin Taylor

Printer:  The Lowe Martin Group

Process: High Resolution stochastic screening in four colour process offset lithography

Stamp Size: 28 x 45mm Sheet Format: 20 (2 x 10)

Watermark: Printer’s own un-watermarked stamp paper

Perforation : 13 per 2cms
Remembrance
Issued on 16th September 2008
The Tristan sheet stamps feature paintings by famous war artists, the souvenir sheet stamp the Overseas Territories wreath laid at The Whitehall Cenotaph each year. The souvenir sheet (shown below left) shows the Whitehall Cenotaph with HM The Queen’s wreath highlighted.

Available As :

200830 6 x 50p Mint Stamps for £3

200831 Souvenir Sheet (shown left) for £1

 

200824 'Angels of Mons' Souvenir Sheet
(6 x 50p) for £3

200825 'End of Richthofen' Souvenir Sheet
(6 x 50p) for £3

200826 'A Battery Shelled' Souvenir Sheet
(6 x 50p) for £3

200827 'Oppy Wood' Souvenir Sheet
(6 x 50p) for £3

200828 'Somme Tank' Souvenir Sheet
(6 x 50p) for £3

200829 'Lion Leads in Jutland' Souvenir Sheet
(6 x 50p) for £3

200832 First Day Cover (6 x 50p stamps) for £3.25
200833 First day Cover (£1 Souvenir Sheet) for £1.25
Specifications from CASCO for the Remembrance Set which depicts scenes from famous 1st World War Paintings ~

Layout and Design – CASCO Studio
Printer - BDT International Security Printing
Process – Lithography.
Stamp Size – 28.45mm x 42.58mm.
Format – sheetlets x 6 stamps
Sheetlet Size – 100 x 130mm in portrait format.
Souvenir Sheet Size – 70mm x 110mm landscape comprising a single stamp 28.45mm x 42.58mm portrait block perforated out.
Perforation – 14 per 2 cms
Paper – CASCO Crown watermarked paper.