2827. 🇼🇸 Samoa Joint Issue With China.

 

New issues -

🇼🇸 Samoa Post -

6 November 2025 - Joint issue with the People’s Republic of China, 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, pigeons. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

13 November 2025 - Hanukkah (Jewish religious festival) - 1 self-adhesive stamp sold in booklets of 6. Designed by Subplot Design Ltd and lithographed by Lowe Martin. Rating:- ****.

🇮🇳 India Post - 

8 November 2025 - My Stamp personalised stamps, 50th anniversary of NHPC Ltd, a governmental power company specialising in hydropower and renewable energy - 1 sheetlet of 12 different stamps with attached labels sold at a premium. 

🇺🇸 Intergovernmental Philatelic Corporation (IGPC) -

🇬🇾 Products inscribed Guyana -

12 December 2024 - ‘Prince William’ - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 6 different stamps and the other a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- 0.

12 December 2024 - ‘Prince William and Princess Kate’ - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 5 different stamps and the other a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- 0.

12 December 2025 - Re-election of Donald Trump as President of the United States - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 6/different stamps and the other a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- 0.

🇬🇾 Guyana Post Office Corporation -

25 July 2025 - Low carbon development strategy - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

35 October 2025 - 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Guyana and tge Dominican Republic - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇰🇳 Nevis Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications - 

7 November 2024 - Centenarians 2024 - 1 miniature sheet containing 6 different stamps honouring 3 Nevis centenarians. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

2725.🇮🇳 India New Issue Features Observatory.

 

New issues -

🇮🇳 India Post -

16 May 2025 - 125th anniversary of Kodaikanal Solar Observatory - 1 stamp. Designed by Sh Brahm Prakash and printed by Security Printing Press Hyderabad. Rating:- ***.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

26 June 2025 - Intangible cultural heritage, paper crafting technique - 4 stamps, 2 miniature sheets both containing a single stamp and a ‘minipane’ (sheetlet of 8 stamps - 2 of each value). Designed by Lee Ying-chi and lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇱🇹 Stamperija -

🇬🇾 Products inscribed Guyana -

2025 - Succession of Pope Leo XIV - 1 sheetlet  containing 12 ‘stamps’ (4 x 3 different designs). This product is offered for sale on the Stamperija internet site but anyone considering spending their money on it should bear in mind that this is an item produced privately by Stamperija on a sheetlet with Guyana personalisable stamps and is unlikely to be recognised by the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) as one of its official products as has happened previously with similar items emanating from Stamperija. Stamperija is not the official philatelic agent for GPOC.As always, with anything emerging from Stamperija, caveat emptor.

2653. 🇺🇸 The Apotheosis Of Trump.

 

New Issues -

🇱🇹 Stamperija (exploitative Lithuanian-based producer and purveyor of philatelic items under contract with the postal services of a number of impoverished African territories) -

🇸🇱 Products inscribed Sierra Leone -

‘2023’ (according to Stamperija internet site) though presumably issued by agency on 21 January 2025 - Inauguration of President Donald Trump, 45th and 47th President of the United States of America - 1 miniature sheet containing 8 different’stamps. Rating:- 0.

  The new US President, Donald Trump, was inaugurated to the Presidency on 20 January 2025 having beaten the incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential election held the previous November. In taking office, Trump achieved a number of interesting historical landmarks - he became the oldest president to ever take office in the United States beating his predecessor Joseph Biden by two months or so, was the first convicted felon to take office and with former President Grover Cleveland was only one of two US presidents to have two non-consecutive terms in office.

  Ever a controversial figure his first action was to get rid of hundreds of laws of the previous administration by Presidential decree and to say that the USA would take back control of the Panama Canal (under US control, the Canal Zone had had its own postage stamps so any such action might have philatelic consequences in that respect alone). 

  Trump had had a difficult time legally during his time out of office and Stamperija mocked him by selling sheets of personalised stamps of Guyana noting his arrest and conviction (Guyana is not usually a client of Stamperija - its postal service has sold its philatelic reputation to Intergovernmental Philatelic Corporation (IGPC)). Guyana Post Office Corporation posted on its Facebook page confirming that such issues were not official GPOC releases and were illegal.

  With Trump triumphant Stamperija has rapidly jumped on the band wagon to commemorate Trump’s inauguration. Doubtless we will see more such products and especially from IGPC and it is doubtful that the wait for the release of these products will be a long one. Such opportunism, however, is probably something Trump himself would approve of, or even admire, one thinks.

  Another consequence of Trumps’s ascent to power may be that the British Indian Ocean Territory will not cease to exist after Starmer’s new Labour government in the United Kingdom failed to get the Mauritius government to take over the Chagos Islands even though it was also being offered £9 billion to complete the takeover before Trump’s inauguration (it was thought that he was against the deal because of the perceived danger to the large US base on the largest island of the Chagos, Diego Garcia). Now it’s all down to President Trump - will he agree to the transfer of sovereignty or not? If the British government disregarded his views and handed the islands over to Mauritius might he not just order the large US force on the island to take it over and turn it into the American Indian Ocean Territory (mirroring his threat to take over the Canal Zone). 

  With Trump nothing is certain and there are bound to be philatelic consequences of some of his actions. Perhaps we might even see BIOT stamps again one day. Or perhaps not.

2626. 🇬🇬🇺🇸 New Issues From Guernsey And IGPC.

 

New Issues -

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

6 January 2025 - Chinese New Year - 6 stamps (total cost £7.51), 1 miniature sheet containing all 6 stamps (£7.51), 1 ‘Prestige folder’ which includes a 12 stamp sheetlet containing one stamp for each creature of the Chinese zodiac costing £60 & 1 ‘gold replica’ miniature sheet containing all 6 stamps sold for £95. Designed by Chrissy Lau and lithographed by bpost . Rating:- 0.

🇺🇸 Intergovernmental Philatelic Corporation -

All rated:- 0.

🇬🇭 Products inscribed Ghana - 

15 December 2023 - 75th anniversary of the assassination of Mohandas Gandhi, Indian politician - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 4 different stamps and the other a single stamp (illustration awaited).

18 August 2024 - 

Chinese New Year, Year of the Dragon - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 5 different stamps and the other containing 2 different stamps.

18 August 2024 - Shanghai International Stamp Exhibition - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 9:different stamps and the other a single stamp.

18 August 2024 - ‘Kindred spirits among the flowers Happy Birthday’ - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 4 different stamps and the other a single stamp.

18 August 2024 - ‘Kindred spirits among the flowers’ - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 4 stamps and the other a single stamp. Illustrations awaited.

9 October 2024 - World Post Day, 150th anniversary of the Universal Postal Union - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp.

🇬🇾 Products inscribed Guyana -

All the following have a stated date of issue of 31 October 2024 - 

Venomous snakes of the world - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 2 different stamps and the other 6 different stamps. 

Capybaras of Guyana - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 4 different stamps and the second containing a single stamp.

Crocodiles - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 4 different stamps and the other 2 different stamps.

The Red-footed tortoise - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 6 different stamps and the other 2 different stamps.

Aircraft of the Second World War - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 6 different stamps and the other 2 different stamps.

Shanghai International Stamp Exhibition - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 6 different stamps and the other a single stamp.

Sloths - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 4 different stamps and the other a single stamp.