Query On Falkland Island Dependencies Reprints

Hello all,

Does anyone know WHY there was a reprint of the 13 low-value definitives in 1984 please?
(image of first four values shown)

We have the SG All World Catalogue which lists the issue but gives no other details




Thanks in advance for any information.

Regards

Eunice and Ron

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I think the Falklands was granted the right to issue stamps in 1984. Perhaps this was an issue of convenience. Dunno.

Weren't these definitives issued from 1980 through 1984?

"...definitives issued from 1980 through 1984?"
As KGB has mentioned, this may be related to definitives and the reprinted issue would have been the last definitive set issued by the F.I.Dependencies before the Dependencies issued their own stamps in 1985. First set 1980... last set 1984 (dated imprint) would be popular with collectors perhaps.

As SCOTZM said there is a 1984 series that has the date of "1984" imprinted on them . There are also a few stamps that were printed on different watermarked paper in 1985 .

Perhaps the Falkland Islands Philatelic Study Group might be able to answer your question:

http://www.fipsg.org.uk/

Hello All,

Thanks for the responses.

Yes the definitives were issued in 1980, but then in 1984 only the 1p to 50p were re-printed with exactly the same design. Our catalogue only gives the date but no reason as to why they would have been reprinted. It could be a watermark change, or no watermark, or a paper change or a printer... but whatever reason it does not seem likely that the previous stocks of ALL of those stamps could have been used up by the population of the islands. In that case is it just to meet the demand of collectors - like us at the time??

We stopped collecting them in 1994, but then in 2014 we saw a m/s for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands issued for London 2010 Festival of Stamps, and bought it. On checking with the catalogue, in those intervening years, they had issued 51 different sets of stamps. So there must be a lot of other Antarctica collectors still buying them.

They issued very attractive stamps but surely that number would not be necessary for the postal services of such a small area.

Floortrader, Thanks for pointing out the date printed on the bottom of the reprints. Age does something to the eye power and a magnifier is very handy. We will have to add that to the writing up of the series.

We still wonder about the 'Why' though.

22crows – Thanks for the link to the F.I. site, very interesting and some great images. We will have to look further during the day.

All this help is appreciated.

Regards
Eunice and Ron.