Isle of Man - Creneash, y Balley Ain - Our Cregneash Home - 2022
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| Country | Isle of Man |
| Country code | IM |
| Issue title | Creneash, y Balley Ain – Our Cregneash Home |
| Date of issue | 23 February 2022 |
| Withdrawal or invalidation date | Not specified
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| Stamp type | Commemorative stamp |
| Stamp subtype | Art and heritage |
| Theme or subject | Cregneash; Manx landscapes; watercolour painting; David Byrne; Nancy Corkish |
| Text credit | Isle of Man Post Office |
| Designer or artist | Icon Imaging |
| Printer | Cartor |
| Printing process | Five-colour offset lithography |
| Colours | Five-colour |
| Paper and gum | 110 gsm paper; PVA gum |
| Perforation | 13 per 2 cm |
| Stamp dimensions | 36 × 36 mm |
| Issue format | Sheets of 20 |
| Number of stamps | 8 |
| Cover type | Official first day cover |
| Cover producer | Isle of Man Post Office |
| Cover reference | ABD91 |
| Limited edition | Yes |
| Edition limit | 1500 |
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| Cachet or cover design | Issue title and watercolour-style landscape border, with the inscription “The Watercolours of Nancy Corkish and David Byrne” |
| Addressed | No |
| Postmark type | First-day-of-issue postmark |
| Postmark location | Douglas, Isle of Man |
| Postmark date | 23 February 2022 |
| Postmark inscription | First Day of Issue · 23.2.2022 · Douglas · Isle of Man; Creneash, y Balley Ain · Our Cregneash Home |
| Postmark notes | Black circular pictorial postmark incorporating the issue title |
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| Signed | No |
| Signed by | N/A |
| Signature details | N/A |
| Information sheet included | Yes |
| Information materials | Double-sided information card describing the artistic partnership of David Byrne and Nancy Corkish and providing technical details of the issue |
| Information sheet title | Creneash, y Balley Ain – Our Cregneash Home information card |
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| Information sheet notes | The reverse includes background information, technical details and an illustration based on the issue artwork |
| Certificate of authenticity included | No |
| Certificate of authenticity image | N/A |
| Certificate of authenticity reverse image | N/A |
| FDC owned | Yes |
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The issue celebrates the watercolour paintings of Manx artists David Byrne and Nancy Corkish, who lived together at Cregneash for almost three decades. Their home, close to the southern tip of the Isle of Man, provided inspiration for hundreds of paintings depicting the surrounding landscape, changing weather and seasons.[1]
Nancy Corkish undertook numerous illustration commissions and contributed to Isle of Man stamp issues over a period of almost forty years. She died in January 2021. The issue serves partly as a tribute to her life and work and also records her artistic partnership with David Byrne. Although Byrne had been prominent in the Manx art community for many years, this was the first stamp issue to feature his paintings.[1]
The Manx title, supplied by Culture Vannin’s Yn Greinneyder, translates as “Cregneash, Our Home”. Eight stamps were issued so that the artists’ individual interpretations of their shared home and its surroundings could be paired and contrasted. The scenes extend beyond Cregneash village to encompass the surrounding peninsula.[1]
The stamps were designed by Icon Imaging and printed by Cartor using five-colour offset lithography. Each stamp measures 36 × 36 mm and is perforated 13 per 2 cm. They were printed on 110 gsm PVA-gummed paper in sheets of 20. The official first day cover was limited to 1,500 copies.
The reverse of the cover reproduces a monochrome preparatory landscape sketch. The cover contains all eight stamps and bears a black circular Douglas first-day-of-issue postmark dated 23 February 2022.
The identifiers P2737–P2744 are provisional PhantomWiki numbers. They preserve the expected Stanley Gibbons sequence but are not numbers published or confirmed by Stanley Gibbons.
Stamps in this issue
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IM-SG-P2737 | First | Snow-covered buildings at Cregneash, with the coastline and hills beyond | Stamp | Artwork by Nancy Corkish; provisional PhantomWiki number
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IM-SG-P2738 | First | Rooftops and cottages at Cregneash | Stamp | Artwork by David Byrne; provisional PhantomWiki number
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IM-SG-P2739 | Europe | Rocky coastal cliffs and sea | Stamp | Artwork by David Byrne; provisional PhantomWiki number
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IM-SG-P2740 | Europe | Coastal headlands viewed across the sea beneath a colourful sky | Stamp | Artwork by Nancy Corkish; provisional PhantomWiki number
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IM-SG-P2741 | Large | Cregneash cottages in a pale winter landscape | Stamp | Artwork by David Byrne; provisional PhantomWiki number
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IM-SG-P2742 | Large | Snow-covered Cregneash cottages beneath a low sun | Stamp | Artwork by Nancy Corkish; provisional PhantomWiki number
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IM-SG-P2743 | Rest of World | Landscape view towards the artists’ home and the Calf of Man | Stamp | Artwork by David Byrne; provisional PhantomWiki number
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IM-SG-P2744 | Rest of World | Landscape view across fields towards the artists’ home and the Calf of Man | Stamp | Artwork by Nancy Corkish; provisional PhantomWiki number
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Isle of Man Post Office.“Isle of Man Post Office releases a set of scenic stamps that showcases the work of Manx artists, David Byrne and the late Nancy Corkish”. Isle of Man Post Office. Isle of Man Post Office. 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2026.