2765. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail Commemorates Monty Python.

 

New issues.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

14 August 2025 - 50th anniversary of Monty Python, BBC television comedy series & film - 6 stamps (3 vertically se-tenant pairs, (cost £10.20p), 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different self-adhesive stamps (Monty Python and The Holy Grail, cost £6.80p), 1 miniature sheet containing the 6 different stamps in self -adhesive format with labels (£11.40p, ‘Collectors sheeet), 1 miniature sheet containing 3 identical self-adhesive  stamps with labels (Monty Python and The Holy Grail ‘fan sheet’, cost £7.50p) and 1 ‘Gold miniature sheet’, cost £149.99p). Designed by Common Curiosity and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5. 

Great designs celebrating British humour as it was 50 years ago but now long lost under the pressure of political correctness and pofacedness and the need to be offended. An excessive issue with grossly unnecessary extra items (yes, I know they’re for the fans) but let’s give the basic set & miniature sheet a full blown ***** in memory of a lost Britain and its zany, rude sense of humour.

🇶🇦 Qatar Post -

15 June 2025 - 80th anniversary of the League of Arab States - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇮🇳 India Post -

My Stamp personalised stamps sold to the public at a premium by India Post. Usually produced in sheetlets of 12 stamps with attached labels.

2025 - Centenary of the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhahbad - 1 stamp with attached label.

2643. 🇬🇧 Vicar Of Dibley - Another BBC Comedy Featured On New Royal Mail Stamps.

 

New Issues.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

14 January 2024 - 30th anniversary of the first broadcast of The Vicar of Dibley, a charming, inoffensive  but generally unremarkable BBC comedy television programme - 8 gummed stamps (4 se-tenant pairs) costing £12.60p, 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps costing £6.60 and 1 ‘Collectors sheet’ containing 10 self-adhesive stamps with attached labels sold for £17.10p. Total cost - £36.30p.  Designed by True North and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating:- *.

2555. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail To Release Yet Another Issue Depicting Vintage BBC Television Comedy.

New Issues - 

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

3 September 2024 - Porridge, vintage BBC Television comedy programme set in a prison (‘porridge’ is slang for serving a term of imprisonment for criminal activities) - 8 stamps (4 se-tenant pairs, total cost £13.40p) and 1 ‘Collectors sheet’ containing 10:stamps with attached labels (sold for £17.30). Designed by Steers McGiven Eves and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating:- *.

Meanwhile, anyone interested in a philatelic bowl of real porridge may recall this stamp from An Post which was issued on 16 July 2015 as part of a set of 4 with an accompanying miniature sheet. The set was titled - “Ireland - the Food island”  -

2515. 🇦🇺 Upcoming Issues From Australia Post.

 

New issues -

🇦🇺 Australia Post -

1 July 2023 - Marine emblems of Australian states - 3 gummed stamps, 3 self-adhesive stamps from booklets of 5 (costing A$14.25, $16.50 and $22.75) and 1 gummed miniature sheet containing all 3 stamps). Designed by Simone Sakinofsky using illustrations by Roger Swainton and lithographed by RA Print and perforated 14 x 14.5. Rating:- **.

My Stamp personalised stamps packs sold by Australia Post (all such products are rated - 0) - 

2024 - 30th anniversary of Friends, American comedy television programme - 1 sheetlet containing 9 different stamps sold for $16.50.

2024 - Star Wars Episode 1, American movie - 1 sheetlet containing 12 different stamps sold for $21 -

2024 - The Karate Kid, American movie - 1 sheetlet containing 9 different stamps and sold for $16.50 -

9 July 2024 - Bicentenary of a ‘Free Press’ - 1 gummed stamp issued in sheetlets of 10. Designed by Jonathan Chong and lithographed by Southern Impact and perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating:- ***.

16 July 2024 - Centenary of Compulsory voting in Australia - 1 gummed stamp issued in sheetlets of 10. Designed by Visua and lithographed by EGO and perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating:- ***.

After 11 August 2024 - Australian Olympic Games gold medal winners - number issued to depend on number of gold medals won by Australians. To be issued in sheetlets costing $15 (10 x $1.50 stamps).

2024 - My Stamp personalised stamp packs - 45th anniversary of Sesame Street (American children’s television programme - 1 sheetlet containing 9 different stamps and sold for $16.50.

2024 - My Stamp personalised stamp pack - Despicable Me 4, American cartoon movie - 1 sheetlet containing 12 different stamps sold for $21.

13 August 2024 - Centenary of the last Cobb & Co Stagecoach - 2 gummed stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing both stamps. Designed by Jason Watts and lithographed by RA Printing and perforated 14 x 14.5. Rating:- ****.

🇦🇺Issue inscribed Australian Antarctic Territory -

13 August 2024 - Seals - 4 gummed stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Designed by Jo Muré and lithographed by EGO and perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating:- ****.

20 August 2024 - ‘Koalas in Danger’ - 3 gummed stamps, 3 self adhesive stamps from a $15 booklet containing 6 stamps (2 of each design) and 1 miniature sheet containing 1 of each design. Designed by Sonia Young and lithographed by RA Printing and perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating:- **.

2024 - My Stamps personalised stamps - National Rugby League stamp pack - 2 panes containing a total of 18 different stamps and costing $30 plus 17 ‘Team Packs’, one for each individual team, each containing a pane of 12 identical stamps and each pack sold for $20.

5 August 2024 - 50th anniversary of Holden Sandman - My Stamp personalised stamps pack sold as a sheetlet of 12 different stamps and costing $23.