Meanings of new stamps in English

FOUR new stamps are now on, sale at post offices around the State.

Sir, - We seem to produce an enormous number of new stamps each year.

They worked through the last group of new stamps.

The new stamps seem to have been designed by a collaborating Hanna-Barbera and Jeff Koons.

But I can trace as well as possible the times at which new stamps were supplied.

He took them, examined the new stamps which had been put upon them, and then said, Very well.

Yet An Post has just issued not one, but four new stamps honouring Dracula and his creator, Bram Stoker.

About a month later a circular was addressed to postmasters announcing the issue of the new stamps as follows:

An Post has unveiled four new stamps today to mark significant contributions made to the development of the Irish language.

The demand for the new stamps was extraordinary, and for the better part of a month was steadily kept up.

The Irish-born author Bram Stoker is honoured in four new stamps launched by An Post yesterday which feature his creation, Dracula.

Before offering to the public any of the new stamps it is very desirable that the old stock he entirely sold.

The new stamps were printed from engraved plates as usual from a special die adapted from the ordinary 2 cent stamp.

Other new stamps commemorate the bicentenary of Newtown School in Waterford, the centenary of Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, and Irish post-boxes.

The Government on Tuesday approved the issuing of 16 new stamps in the coming year with many of them commemorating significant anniversaries.

It is also 25 years since Tiananmen Square but he stopped short of announcing an issue of new stamps to commemorate that.