New issues -
🇨🇰 Cook Islands Philatelic Bureau/Philatelic Collector Inc. -
2023 (no dates specified)
Products titled ‘Birds of the World’ with high face value. No products inscribed Cook Islands Penrhyn. No other details available. Each entity is stated to have released sets of 4 stamps, 1 miniature sheet containing 2 sets of the same stamps plus 4 ‘Deluxe souvenir sheets’ each containing a single stamp but illustrations of these are not available for all entities. Lithographed. Rating:- 0.
🇨🇰 Products inscribed Cook Islands -
2023 - The Pacific reef heron -
🇨🇰 Products inscribed Rarotonga -
2023 - The Morepork -0
🇨🇰 Products inscribed Aitutaki Cook Islands -
2023 - The peregrine falcon -
🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -
3 September 2025 Round kiwi stamps - 5 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 5 stamps. Designed by Sacha Lees and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 14.5. Rating:- **.
Interestingly New Zealand Post seems to have taken it upon itself to rename the country as ‘Aotearoa New Zealand’.
I saw these Birds stamps from the Cook Islands - I didn't think they were new, but perhaps I was mistaken. It's interesting that the Rarotonga issue doesn't state 'Cook Islands' unlike the Aitutaki and Penrhyn issues. Surely of all the islands Rarotonga could be confused with another country.
ReplyDeleteFor some years many organisations have been including the Māori name before New Zealand when referring to the country.
ReplyDeleteMany places have been renamed with a more appropriate original Māori name through the Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa New Zealand Geographic Board. The country name has not yet been officially changed or dualled.
As they say: Whatungarongaro te tangata toitū te whenua / People come and go, but the land remains.