It is time to clean the catalogue and to amend it with the information collected over the Summer. Unfortunately, a quite large number of announced issues did not (yet) materialize. From the ones listed so far, one can consider that the following issues have failed or were wrongly attributed a joint character:

• The 150th anniversary of the relationship between Japan and Peru translated in a miniature sheet with 10 different stamps issued on August 21, 2023 by Japan and a pair of se-tenant stamps from Peru, supposed to be released by end of October 2023. The bilateral treaty was signed on August 21, 1873. In absence of common date of issue, common design and no announcement of collaboration for the creation of these stamps, they cannot be considered as joint. This is simply a set of stamps celebrating the same event without joint character (information provided by Kenneth Sequeira, Singapore).

• The expected French – Poland 100th anniversary of Polish immigration to France stamps were limited to the French stamp issued on September 4, 2023. No link with Poland was created at this occasion.
  • Additional information posted 20230929: Poland issued on September 29, 2023, a stamp related to this topic, with a different design, and Polish postal administration confirmed this is not to be considered as joint.

We are still waiting for information regarding the following issues, but there is a great doubt that they will really materialize:

• No news from the India Vietnam ‘Fighting Sports’ joint issue originally to be released on April 23, 2023. Actually, the Vietnamese stamps were released on that date, but rapidly retrieved from sale after about 4,000 samples went on the market. No information is available from the Indian side.
• No news from this other Vietnam stamps supposed to become a joint issue with Uruguay. The Uruguay souvenir sheet was released on April 27, 2023
• Morocco and Oman did not issue a common stamp in May 2023 as previously announced
• No news from the India Mauritius joint issue supposed to be released on August 25, 2023

The few joint issues that became available at post offices are reported in the catalogue. The catalogue was updated with all this information and the information is available in Vol XV – V07. Additional information introduced in the catalogue include the following:

• In the T20230509 PostEurop series, the Nagorno Karabagh stamps are also described as non-perforated (Information provided by Kay Sorensen, Germany). We are still missing information from Albania and apparently Armenia will not participate this year (to be confirmed).
• SEPAC stamps are not anymore joint issues (only the topic is common) but all stamps, mint, are presented in a yearly folder that is described in Vol I – V06, chapter “Folders and Booklets”

Eventually Ali Ahmed Med Achour (Algeria) signaled an error on the Algerian stamp from the T20230902 PAPU series. Within the stamp, the Arabic words refer to the town of Arusha and do not mention the PAPU tower. The complete Arabic text should look like the one printed on the Moroccan or the Egyptian stamps (see illustrations below). On the margin of the sheet, there is also a single Arabic word next to the English title, that simply means “inauguration”.