2685. 🇳🇿 New Zealand Post Commemorates Pasifika Festival

 

New issues -

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

2 April 2025 - Pasifika Festival, Auckland (festival of Polynesian culture). Designed by Nick Jarvis and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 14 x 14.5. Issued in individual sheets for each value and in sheets containing se-tenant blocks of 4 as well as one miniature sheet contains a se-tenant block of 4. Rating:- ***.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

5 January 2025 - Chinese New Year, Year of the Snake, Joint issue with postal services of the People’s Republic of China and Macao - 1 miniature sheet containing the sets of all 3 territories, sold in a special pack which also contains a joint first day cover of the 3 territories’ stamps. Rating:- ***.

2684. 🇬🇧 🇬🇬 New Royal Mail Definitives and Guernsey Europa.

 

New issues.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail - 

27 March 2025 - New definitives necessitated by revised international postal rates - 3 stamps (total face value £11). Printed in gravure by Cartor and perforated 15 x 14.5. Rating:- *****.

🇬🇬 Guernsey 

Post -

1 May 2025 - National archaeological discoveries, EUROPA (£1.37 and £1.47 values) - 6 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- **.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

24 April 2025 - Hong Kong Museum Collection, Fuyun Yuan collection of snuff bottles - 6 stamps, 2 miniature sheets and 1 ‘mini-pane’ containing 2 of each stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

2682. 🇮🇳 Fruit From Bihar. 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇦

 

New issues -

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

10 March 2025 - Aidilfitri, Moslem religious festival, se tempe personalised stamps. Sheetlet of 10 stamps (2 each of 5 different stamps) sold at a premium. Lithographed. 

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post -

10 March 2025 - 25th anniversary of NADRA (National Database and Registration Authority) - 1 stamp. Design “supplied by the customer” and lithographed by National Security Printing Company Karachi. Rating:- **.

🇮🇳 India Post -

11 March 2025 - Fruits of Bihar - 5 stamps. Rating:- ***.

2683.. 🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ IGPC Reveals Designs Of Latest Products. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

 

New Issues -

🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ Intergovernmental Philatelic Corporation (IGPC - USA-based producer and marketer of philately-related products under contract from various postal authorities. These issues were previously listed in Blog 2667 but are now relisted with appropriate illustrations. All are rated:- 0.

🇦🇬 Products inscribed Antigua and Barbuda -

Five “issues” all stated to have been released on 12 December 2024 -

Reelection of Donald Trump as US President - 2 miniature sheets

Shanghai Expo, the Great Wall of China - 2 miniature sheets

Insects - 2 miniature sheets 

Coral reefs - 2 miniature sheets 

Caribbean region snakes - 2 miniature sheets 

🇬🇭 Products inscribed Ghana -

Two “issues” stated to have been released on 12 December 2024 -

Reelection of Trump - 2 miniature sheets 

Planets of the Solar System - 2 miniature sheets 

🇹🇻 Products inscribed Tuvalu -

Five “issues” stated to have been released on 18 December 2024.

Chinese New Year, Year of the Dragon - 2 miniature sheets 

Traditional Chinese attire - 2 miniature sheets 

‘Love and Hope’ - 2 miniature sheets 

‘Life under the sea’ - 2 miniature sheets 

75th anniversary of the assassination of Mohandas Gandhi, Indian politician - 2 miniature sheets.