Jersey Post Map Issue

Last year Jersey Post issued a press release about their 2010 issue schedule. On that schedule was a February listing relating to maps, however no image was available at that time. Recently a small image and some sales information about the issue has been made available on the Jersey Post’s Philatelic Sales web site. The following image and description are from that site. This may well be the first cartophilatelic issue of 2010. The GBP 2.10 set appears to be currently on sale.

Jersey 2010-02-09 (Forthcoming)

The issue will consist of five new self-adhesive postage stamps for use on items of mail requiring the minimum postage tariff for the other Channel Islands and United Kingdom destinations. The stamps will feature a variety of maps of Jersey, both antique and modern, dating from 1685 and it is interesting to observe the apparent thoughts of cartographers over the different periods of time. These Non Value Indicator stamps (NVI’s) will be the first set of stamps to bear a change in the wording of Jersey Post’s NVIs. Previously, each NVI stamp in this set would have been titled ‘UK Minimum Postage Paid’ but the stamps will now read ‘UK Letter’ instead.

[More information and a better resolution image will be updated later.]