The Alderney stamps for 2021 are easy to track with only 5 sets. The topics are: Anniversary of Decimalisation, UN Year of Fruit and Veg, Prince Philip, The Secret Garden and Alderney Christmas. It’s pretty straight forward.  I’ll poke around the Alderney Post website for interesting bits ‘n bobs to share so check back periodically and see what I’ve found.

Note: The Prince Philip 100th Birthday set has been replaced with Celebrating the life of Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh. 

Alderney stamps for 2021

February

50th Anniversary of Decimalisation

6 stamps, 2  FDC, cancel presentation pack, sheets of 10, souvenir sheet, pack insert 

Designer: Two degrees North
Two Degrees North work will be familiar to collectors of Guernsey, Jersey and Alderney stamps. They are behind this year’s Postcrossing series for Guernsey.
Other stamps include Guernsey 2020 Liberation 75, Alderney 2020 Ramsar, Guernsey Post 50th Anniversary in 2019 to name a few. Their first design was Guernsey Post’s 2012 Queen’s Diamond Jubilee series. In 2016 they produced their first Alderney stamps titled Alderney Longis Nature Reserve

Release date: Feb. 15, 2021 

April  2021

 
UN: International Year of Fruit and Vegetables

8 stamps, FDC, cancel Presentation Pack. sheets of 10

Designer: Petra Palmeri

 Release date: Apr. 7, 2021

September

Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Secret Garden novel

Set of 6 stamps, First Day Cover, Presentation Pack, Sheets, Prestige Booklet

• 50p: 10-year-old Mary Lennox discovers the key that opens a door into the secret garden within the sprawling grounds of Misselthwaite Manor.
• 70p: Mary sits in the secret garden with Dickon Sowerby, the brother of Mary’s maid, along with Dickon’s wild pets: Captain the fox, Soot the crow, and two squirrels named Nut and Shell.
• 73p: Drawn by the noise of a child weeping, Mary discovers a thin, pale child lying upon a huge bed. It is Colin Craven, the son of her Uncle, Archibald Craven, master of Misselthwaite Manor.
• £1.00: Dickon nurses a new-born lamb whilst his wild pets meet Colin for the first time, as Mary looks on.
• £1.15: In the rose garden, the gardener Ben Weatherstaff suggests they sing the Doxology, a song they sing in church. Mary, Colin, and Ben listen whilst Dickon sings for them.
• £1.20: A re-worked and colourised photograph of Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849 – 1924), author of The Secret Garden, taken in 1886. 

Release date: Sept. 1, 2021

The Life of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

4 stamps, 4 sheets of 10, 2 FDCs, cancel, presentation pack w/ insert, souvenir sheet & pack

• 50p Stamp: Sporting Interests
• 73p Stamp: Naval Career
• £1 Stamp: Supporting the Queen
• £1.20 Stamp: RAF Wings

Designer: Two Degrees North

Release date: Sept. 1, 2021

November  

Alderney Christmas

Set of 7 Stamps, FDC, cancel, Presentation Pack, Sheets of 10

• 45p Stamp: Luke 2.14
• 50p Stamp: Luke 1.30
• 70p Stamp: Luke 1.31
• 73p Stamp: Luke 2.7
• £1 Stamp: Luke 2.10
• £1.15 Stamp: Matthew 2.9
• £1.20 Stamp: Matthew 2.14

Designer: Joe Smith

Release date: Nov. 3, 2021

December

Alderney 2021 Year set folder

Folder with every stamp issued, souvenir & miniature sheets that were issued through the year.  It also includes write ups about the stamps.

 Release date: Dec. 1, 2021

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