Isle of Man First Day Cover Checklist

This manually maintained checklist lists the Isle of Man covers recorded on PhantomWiki, including joint covers and the last-day British postal covers.

Work in progress: Covers are being added to this checklist using the Stanley Gibbons catalogue as a starting point. Additional cover designs and variations are being located and added as work progresses. The checklist is therefore not yet a complete record of all known covers.

Key: ☑ = owned; ☐ = wanted. These symbols are manually editable, not clickable checkboxes. Edit them in the page source when ownership changes. The generic Wanted image marks wanted covers without an uploaded front image. The generic Awaiting Scan image marks owned covers without an uploaded front scan. Both placeholders are used only on this checklist and are replaced by genuine front-cover images when available.

Covers are listed in ascending issue-date order. For the same issue and date, official covers come first, followed by official self-adhesive covers, then other covers alphabetically by producer. Covers with an unidentified producer follow those with a known producer. Double lines separate issue groups within each yearly table.

Dates follow the issue-date field on each cover page. A cancellation date may differ: the Cotswold postage due cover is listed under 1 September 1973, with its 10 September cancellation noted in the title column.

See also Stamps and first day covers, Isle of Man stamps and first day covers, and the Isle of Man wanted-cover list.

Breakdown by decade

This breakdown counts only the issues and covers currently entered in this checklist. The checklist is a work in progress, so these figures do not represent every issue or cover that exists. An issue means one issue group in the checklist; different cover versions count as separate covers. A zero means that no entries have been added for that decade yet.

Decade	Number of issues	Number of covers
1950s	1	7
1960s	4	18
1970s	21	82
1980s	0	0
1990s	0	0
2000s	0	0
2010s	0	0
2020s	8	9

1950s

1958

Owned	Cover image	Date of issue	Cover title
☐		18 August 1958	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitive – 3d – GPO cover – 1958
☐		18 August 1958	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitive – 3d – GPO cover (coloured) – 1958
☑		18 August 1958	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitive – 3d – 1958
☐		18 August 1958	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitive – 3d – Boxed cachet cover – 1958
☐		18 August 1958	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitive – 3d – First Manx Stamp shield cover – 1958
☐		18 August 1958	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitive – 3d – Outline map cover – 1958
☐		18 August 1958	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitive – 3d – Shield and flowers cover – 1958

1960s

1964

Owned	Cover image	Date of issue	Cover title
☐		8 June 1964	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitive – 2½d – Castle Rushen cover – 1964
☐		8 June 1964	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitive – 2½d – Map and Manx cat cover – 1964
☐		8 June 1964	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitive – 2½d – Peel Castle cover – 1964
☐		8 June 1964	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitive – 2½d – Triskelion emblem cover – 1964

1966

Owned	Cover image	Date of issue	Cover title
☐		7 February 1966	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitive – 4d – GPO cover – 1966
☐		7 February 1966	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitive – 4d – Manx Philatelic Society cover – 1966
☐		7 February 1966	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitive – 4d – Outline map cover – 1966

1968

Owned	Cover image	Date of issue	Cover title
☑		4 September 1968	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitives – 4d and 5d – GPO cover – 1968
☐		4 September 1968	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitives – 4d and 5d – Philart cover – 1968
☐		4 September 1968	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitives – 4d and 5d – Wessex cover – 1968
☐		4 September 1968	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitives – 4d and 5d – Manx-language map cover – 1968
☑		4 September 1968	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitives – 4d and 5d – 1968
☐		4 September 1968	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitives – 4d and 5d – Triskelion emblem cover – 1968

1969

Owned	Cover image	Date of issue	Cover title
☐		26 February 1969	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitive – 4d – GPO cover – 1969
☐		26 February 1969	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitive – 4d – Manx Philatelic Society cover – 1969
☑		26 February 1969	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitive – 4d – Philart cover – 1969
☐		26 February 1969	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitive – 4d – Regional Issue cover – 1969
☑		26 February 1969	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitive – 4d – Shield cover – 1969

1970s

1971

Owned	Cover image	Date of issue	Cover title
☑		7 July 1971	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitives – Decimal currency – 1971
☐		7 July 1971	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitives – Decimal currency – GPO landscape cover – 1971
☐		7 July 1971	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitives – Decimal currency – Cotswold cover – 1971
☐		7 July 1971	Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II regional definitives – Decimal currency – Manx-language map cover – 1971

1973

Owned	Cover image	Date of issue	Cover title
☐		4 July 1973	Isle of Man – Last day of British Postal Services – Decimal regionals – GPO cover – 1973
☐		4 July 1973	Isle of Man – Last day of British Postal Services – British Paintings – GPO cover – 1973
☐		4 July 1973	Isle of Man – Last day of British Postal Services – Decimal regionals – Cotswold cover – 1973
☐		4 July 1973	Isle of Man – Last day of British Postal Services – Decimal regionals – Thames cover – 1973
☐		4 July 1973	Isle of Man – Last day of British Postal Services – British Paintings illustrated cover – 1973
☑		5 July 1973	Isle of Man – Inauguration of Postal Independence – 1973
☐		5 July 1973	Isle of Man – Inauguration of Postal Independence – Cotswold cover – 1973
☐		5 July 1973	Isle of Man – Inauguration of Postal Independence – Mercury cover – 1973
☐		5 July 1973	Isle of Man – Inauguration of Postal Independence – Mercury cover (Manx cat stamp) – 1973
☑		5 July 1973	Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – ½p to 2p – 1973
☑		5 July 1973	Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – 2½p to 4p – 1973
☑		5 July 1973	Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – 5p, 6p, 7½p and 9p – 1973
☑		5 July 1973	Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – 10p, 20p, 50p and £1 – 1973
☐		5 July 1973	Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – ½p to 3p – Cotswold cover – 1973
☐		5 July 1973	Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – 3½p to 9p – Cotswold cover – 1973
☐		5 July 1973	Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – 10p, 20p, 50p and £1 – Cotswold cover – 1973
☑		5 July 1973	Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – ½p to 3p – Mercury cover – 1973
☑		5 July 1973	Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – 3½p to 9p – Mercury cover – 1973
☑		5 July 1973	Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – 10p, 20p, 50p and £1 – Mercury cover – 1973
☐		5 July 1973	Isle of Man – Postage due stamps – Official cover – 1973
☐		5 July 1973	Isle of Man – Postage due stamps – Mercury cover – 1973
☑		4 August 1973	Isle of Man – Centenary of Steam Railway – 1973
☐		4 August 1973	Isle of Man – Centenary of Steam Railway – Cotswold cover – 1973
☐		4 August 1973	Isle of Man – Centenary of Steam Railway – Mercury cover – 1973
☐		4 August 1973	Isle of Man – Centenary of Steam Railway – Stuart cover – 1973
☐		1 September 1973	Isle of Man – Postage due stamps – Cotswold cover – 1973 (cancelled 10 September 1973)
☑		4 September 1973	Isle of Man – Golden Jubilee of Manx Grand Prix – 1973
☐		4 September 1973	Isle of Man – Golden Jubilee of Manx Grand Prix – Stuart cover – 1973
☑		14 November 1973	Isle of Man – Royal Wedding – 1973
☐		14 November 1973	Isle of Man – Royal Wedding – Cotswold cover – 1973
☐		14 November 1973	Isle of Man – Royal Wedding – J. M. Toombs cover – 1973
☐		14 November 1973	Isle of Man – Royal Wedding – Mercury cover – 1973
☐		14 November 1973	Isle of Man – Royal Wedding – Photographic cover – 1973

1974

Owned	Cover image	Date of issue	Cover title
☐		4 March 1974	Isle of Man – 150th Anniversary of Royal National Lifeboat Institution – GPO cover – 1974
☐		4 March 1974	Isle of Man – 150th Anniversary of Royal National Lifeboat Institution – GPO cover (pictorial postmark) – 1974
☐		4 March 1974	Isle of Man – 150th Anniversary of Royal National Lifeboat Institution – Cotswold cover – 1974
☑		29 May 1974	Isle of Man – Tourist Trophy Motorcycle Races (1st issue) – 1974
☐		18 September 1974	Isle of Man – Historical Anniversaries – 1974
☑		22 November 1974	Isle of Man – Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill – Official miniature sheet cover – 1974
☐		22 November 1974	Isle of Man – Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill – Official stamp set cover – 1974
☐		22 November 1974	Isle of Man – Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill – Cotswold miniature sheet cover – 1974
☐		22 November 1974	Isle of Man – Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill – Cotswold stamp set cover – 1974
☐		22 November 1974	Isle of Man – Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill – Fleetwood SG54 cover – 1974
☐		22 November 1974	Isle of Man – Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill – Fleetwood SG55 cover – 1974
☐		22 November 1974	Isle of Man – Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill – Fleetwood SG56 cover – 1974
☐		22 November 1974	Isle of Man – Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill – Fleetwood SG57 cover – 1974
☑		22 November 1974	Isle of Man – Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill – Mercury miniature sheet cover – 1974
☐		22 November 1974	Isle of Man – Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill – Mercury stamp set cover – 1974
☐		22 November 1974	Isle of Man – Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill – Manx coat of arms stamp set cover – 1974
☐		22 November 1974	Isle of Man – Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill – Photographic stamp set cover – 1974
☐		22 November 1974	Isle of Man – Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill – Strasbourg miniature sheet cover – 1974 — additional Strasbourg cancellation dated 21 January 1975

1975

Owned	Cover image	Date of issue	Cover title
☐		8 January 1975	Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – 4½p and 8p – 1975
☐		8 January 1975	Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – 4½p and 8p – Cotswold cover – 1975
☐		8 January 1975	Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – 4½p and 8p – Mercury cover – 1975
☐		8 January 1975	Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – 4½p and 8p – Stuart cover – 1975
☑		8 January 1975	Isle of Man – Postage due stamps – Official cover – 1975
☐		8 January 1975	Isle of Man – Postage due stamps – Mercury cover (reverse value order) – 1975
☐		8 January 1975	Isle of Man – Postage due stamps – Mercury cover (two blocks of four) – 1975
☑		14 March 1975	Isle of Man – Manx Pioneers in Cleveland, Ohio – Official cover – 1975
☐		14 March 1975	Isle of Man – Manx Pioneers in Cleveland, Ohio – Cotswold cover – 1975
☐		14 March 1975	Isle of Man – Manx Pioneers in Cleveland, Ohio – Mercury cover – 1975
☑		28 May 1975	Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – 5½p and 7p – 1975
☐		28 May 1975	Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – 5½p and 7p – Cotswold cover – 1975
☑		28 May 1975	Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – 5½p and 7p – Mercury cover – 1975
☐		28 May 1975	Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – 5½p and 7p – Stuart cover – 1975
☑		28 May 1975	Isle of Man – Tourist Trophy Motorcycle Races (2nd issue) – Official cover – 1975
☐		28 May 1975	Isle of Man – Tourist Trophy Motorcycle Races (2nd issue) – Mercury cover – 1975
☐		28 May 1975	Isle of Man – Tourist Trophy Motorcycle Races (2nd issue) – Stuart cover – 1975
☑		9 September 1975	Isle of Man – 50th Death Anniversary of Sir George Goldie – Official cover – 1975
☐		9 September 1975	Isle of Man – 50th Death Anniversary of Sir George Goldie – Cotswold cover – 1975
☐		9 September 1975	Isle of Man – 50th Death Anniversary of Sir George Goldie – Mercury cover – 1975
☑		29 October 1975	Isle of Man – Christmas and Bicentenary of Manx Bible – Official cover – 1975
☐		29 October 1975	Isle of Man – Christmas and Bicentenary of Manx Bible – Church of St Sanctain cover – 1975
☐		29 October 1975	Isle of Man – Christmas and Bicentenary of Manx Bible – Cotswold cover – 1975
☑		29 October 1975	Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – 11p and 13p – 1975
☐		29 October 1975	Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – 11p and 13p – Cotswold cover – 1975
☐		29 October 1975	Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – 11p and 13p – Mercury cover – 1975
☐		29 October 1975	Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – 11p and 13p – Stuart cover – 1975

2020s

2021

Owned	Cover image	Date of issue	Cover title
☑		3 November 2021	Isle of Man – Sir Barry Gibb • Singer • Songwriter • Producer – 2021

2022

Owned	Cover image	Date of issue	Cover title
☑		13 January 2022	Isle of Man - Chinese Year of the Tiger - 2022
☑		6 February 2022	Isle of Man - HM Queen Elizabeth II - 70th Anniversary of the Accession to the Throne - ABC91 - 2022
☑		6 February 2022	Isle of Man - HM Queen Elizabeth II - 70th Anniversary of the Accession to the Throne - ABC95 signed - 2022
☑		17 February 2022	Isle of Man - HM Queen Elizabeth II - 70th Anniversary of the Accession to the Throne - ABC94 self-adhesive - 2022
☑		23 February 2022	Isle of Man - Creneash, y Balley Ain - Our Cregneash Home - 2022
☑		8 March 2022	Isle of Man - Sculptures of Michael Sandle RA - 2022
☑		12 April 2022	Isle of Man - Animals by Eileen Schaer - 2022
☑		18 April 2022	Isle of Man - 80th Anniversary of the Award of the George Cross to Malta - 2022 (joint Isle of Man–Malta cover)