2739. 🇲🇹 Malta Commemorates Council Of Europe Presidency.

New issues -

🇲🇹 MaltaPost -

25 June 2025 - Malta’s assumption of the Presidency of the Council of Europe - 1 stamp. Designed by MaltaPost plc and lithographed by Printex and perforated 14. Rating:- **.

🇮🇳 India Post -

21 June 2025 - 11th International Yoga Day - 1 stamp. Printed by Security Printing Press Hyderabad. Rating:- ***.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

30 June 2025 - Fossil discoveries in Malaysia - 4 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

 

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post  -

21 June 2025 - Sri Dalada Poson Perehera Ethkanda Raja Maha Viharaya - Kurunegala - 1 stamp. Further details and illustration awaited.

2738. 🇨🇦 Further Canadian Stamps Celebrate Indigenous Groups Leaders.

 

New issues -

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

20 June 2025 - Indigenous community leaders, Sophie McDougall, champion of Métis culture in Canada and Bruce Starlight, preserver of the Tsúut’inà language - 2 self-adhesive stamps each printed in booklets of 6. Designed by Andrew Perro (Bruce Starlight stamp) and by Andrew Perro from an illustration by Jennifer Farris (Sophie McDougall stamp) and printed by Lowe Martin. Rating:- ****.

🇹🇹 T&T Post (postal service of Trinidad and Tobago) -

?2025 - 50th anniversary of CARICOM (which occurred in 2023) - 1 stamp. Previously issued definitive stamp with overprint and surcharge applied. Rating:- *****.

2737. 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea Airport Issue.

 

New issues -

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

23 July 2025 - Bicentenary of the former St James Church and now cultural centre, SEPAC, Architecture - 4 stamps. Further details awaited. Rating:-**.

🇵🇬 PNG Post (postal service of Papua New Guinea) -

Uncertain Date - Nadzab Tomodachi International Airport - 4 stamps £ 3 miniature sheets, one containing all 4 stamps, the second containing 2  stamps with attached labels and the third containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇨🇾🇰🇭 Joint issue of Cambodia post service and Cyprus Post -

2025 (see Blog 2727) - The Cambodian part of this joint issue has been released and is being sold by stamp dealers but there is presently no news of the corresponding stamp from Cyprus Post (if indeed there is to be such an issue). - 

2736. 🇨🇦 Canada Commemorates Preserver Of Inuit Heritage.

 

New issues -

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

20 June 2025 - Leaders of Indigenous Communities, Julia Haogak Ogina - 1 self-adhesive stamp issued in booklets of 6. Designed by Andrew Perro from a photograph by Matisse Harvey, Archives Radio Canada and lithographed by Lowe Martin. Part of an issue of 3 different stamps. Ogina is recognised for her attempts to preserve Inuit cultural heritage including the drum dance. Rating:- *****.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

?2024 - ‘Tracked post box prepaid label’, parcel post costing S$40  (equivalent to £23) for a pack and S$2.80 for 1 stamp (thanks to PE PHIL for correcting me on an error regarding the price). This item seems to fulfill all the criteria needed to be defined as a (parcel) postage stamp (definition of a postage stamp - “a small adhesive label issued by postal authorities that an affixed to an envelope, postcard or package as evidence that postage has been paid”). Rating:- ****.

🇧🇹 Bhutan Post -

4 June 2025 - Zambala, Buddhist Goddess of Wealth - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 4 different stamps and the other a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

2735. 🇦🇺 Australia International Post Stamps Feature Opals.

 

New issues -

🇦🇺 Australia Post -

24 June 2025 - International postage, Opals of Australia - 3 stamps. Designed by Sharon Rodziewicz and lithographed by RA Printing and perforated 14. Rating:- ***.

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

2 July 2025 - Native Frogs - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Designed by Nick Jarvie and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating:- **.

2735. 🇸🇭 St Helena Depicts Birds Which No Longer Breed On The Island.

 

New issues -

🇸🇭 Postal service of St Helena -

19 May 2025 - Species of birds which no longer breed in St Helens - 4 stamps and1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Further details awaited. Rating:- *****.

🇮🇳 India Post -

2025 - The Chenab railway bridge, the world’s highest railway bridge, on the Jammu to Srinagar railway line, personalised My Stamp personalised stamp - 1 stamp with an attached label printed in a sheetlet of 12 and sold at a premium price. 

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

30 June 2025 - 125th anniversary of Jersey Opera House - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 6 stamps. Designed by Abi Overland and lithographed by bpost. Rating:- ****.

2734. 🇮🇪 Irish Contemporary Art.

 

New issues -

🇮🇪 An Post (postal service of the Republic of Ireland)

5 June 2025 + Contemporary Irish art - 4 self-adhesive stamps issued in a booklet costing €6.40. Designed by Atelier David Smith and lithographed by Enschedé. Rating:- ****.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

4 June 2025 - Revenue stamp, Rs1000 - 1 stamp. This is described as a ‘Revenue stamp’ but illustrations show it used postally as a first day cover and so one may question whether or not this is both a postal and a revenue stamp.

🇨🇾 Cyprus Post -

5 June 2025 - Centenary of the Elenion Primary School, Nicosia - 1 stamp. Printed by Baltic Banknote High Security Printing. Rating:- ***.