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Showing posts with label stamps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stamps. Show all posts
18 February 2025

Stamp Schedule for 2025!

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Canvey Island Local Post (CILP) is pleased to confirm its stamp schedule for 2025. This year has significant WWII anniversaries so our offer...
10 May 2024

River Thames Wrecks: SS Benmohr (1902)

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  The Canvey Island Local Post (CILP) is pleased to announce the issue of its latest stamp and initial release for our new River Thames Wre...
1 April 2024

Spring Heralds New Stamps!

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Spring is finally here! That means new stamp issues are being prepared for release to the wild in the coming months!  I cannot "spill ...
2 May 2023

CILP 2023 Stamp Issues Confirmed

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After more than a year since our last stamp issue in February 2022, the CILP has produced seven new stamp issues for 2023 and early 2024. Im...
4 November 2022

CILP Queen Elizabeth II Stamps to be Withdrawn

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From 31 January 2023, all CILP stamps bearing the image or effigy of our late and beloved monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, will be withdrawn fro...
25 January 2022

New Issue: UK Flags Stamp

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The  Forward United!  stamp has been issued today, 25 January, on the occasion of Robert Burns birthday,  the famous Scottish poet .  The st...
21 April 2020

Emergency Mail Service Stamp Issued

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On 23 April, 2020, the CILP will officially issue an 'Emergency Mail Service' stamp.    Due to the ongoing Covid-19 crises and its...
3 October 2018

400th Anniversary Dutch Cottage Overprint Stamp

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The first CILP stamp was issued in November 2010 and featured the historic Dutch Cottage on Canvey Island. Built in 1618, the cottage celebr...
3 September 2018

Have You Got Your RAF Centenary Stamp?

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Have You Got Yours? On 1st April 2018, we released a very limited overprint of our 2010 RAF Hurricane stamp to celebrate the centenary of...
28 August 2018

Last of the Summer: Update

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Goodbye Summer There is a hint of autumn in the air and the nights are drawing-in fast.   The garden has passed its glory and the swallo...
6 February 2018

New Issue: QEII Life & Service

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To commemorate HM Queen Elizabeth II accession to the throne on 6 February 1952, and to recognise The Queen's dedication to the service ...
27 November 2017

Happy Puddingmas Penguins!

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On the 27th November the CILP released its first dedicated Christmas themed stamp. We have secured the use of an original cartoon, "Hap...
23 October 2017

Famous Public Houses Stamp Set

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Canvey Island Local Post (CILP) released it's Famous Public Houses stamp issue on the 23rd October, 2017. It is a four horizontal stamp ...
4 September 2017

Empire Flying-Boat Airmail 'Seaplane' Stamp

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Canvey Island Local Post (CILP) released 4th September, 2017. It is CILP's first Air Mail stamp and is in response to increasing intere...
23 August 2017

Endangered Fauna & Flora: Insects

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The Endangered Fauna & Flora: Insects issue was released on 21 August, 2017. It is the first in a  proposed series of fauna and flora s...
16 July 2017

New Issues for 2017

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Local Post stamp collectors will be pleased to hear of the imminent release of several new single stamps and multiple stamp sets for the s...
18 November 2016

Collector's Glassine Bags

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The CILP will be releasing a very limited number of glassine bags containing complete sets of all our stamp issues from 2010-2016, from 18 ...
1 August 2016

Recent Issues April - July 2016

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Recent Stamp Issues April to July 2016 The CILP produced three new stamps and one commemorative card during the period April to J...