2778. 🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Commemorates Military And Aviation Museum.

 

New issues -

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

15 September 2025 - 25th anniversary of the Manx Aviation and Military Museum - 6 stamps (total face value £12.48p). Lithographed. Rating:- *.

15 September 2025 - 85th anniversary of the Battle of Britain - 1 Collectors sheet containing 16 different stamps sold in a special pack for £20. Rating:- 0.

🇧🇩  Bangladesh Post -

23 August 2025 - Mainamatipex 2025 philatelic exhibition - 4 stamps (1 previously issued definitive with overprint and surcharge applied spread over a block of 4 of the stamps). Rating:- **.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

31 August 2025 - The Jersey Witch Trials - in addition to the previously detailed 8 stamps and 1 single stamp miniature sheet (see Blog 2770) an additional miniature sheet containing one each of the stamps will also be issued. Price - £19.30 which makes the total cost of the issue to be £44! Rating:- 0.

Commonwealth countries which are not yet known to have issued or had issued on their behalf any legitimate postage stamps during 2025 -

Anguilla 

Antigua and Barbuda 

Bahamas 

Barbados 

Belize 

British Antarctic Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Cameroon

Cayman Islands 

Cook Islands including Rarotonga 

Cook Islands Aitutaki 

Cook Islands Penrhyn 

Dominica 

Gabon 

Ghana 

Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique 

Guyana

Kingdom of eSwatini 

Lesotho

Mauritius 

Montserrat 

Mozambique 

Nauru 

Nevis

New Zealand Ross Dependency 

Niue 

Papua New Guinea 

Pitcairn Islands 

Rwanda

St Kitts or St Kitts-Nevis

Saint Lucia

Samoa 

Solomon Islands 

South Africa 

The Gambia 

Tokelau 

Tonga 

Tonga Niuafo’ou 

Turks and Caicos Islands 

Tuvalu

Uganda 

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Zambia 

Therefore, at the end of August, 44 out of 88 (50.0%) (one new entity has been added in the form of Bailiwick of Guernsey Sark) of Commonwealth philatelic entities appear to have not issued, or not had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2025. This compares with 54% at the end of July and 41.6% at the end of August 2024.

First issues of 2025 from Bailiwick of Guernsey Sark, Kiribati, Malawi and St Vincent and The Grenadines -