2832. 🇧🇸 Bahamas Christmas Stamps.

 

New issues - 

🇧🇸 Bahamas postal service -

20 November 2025 - Christmas, ‘Little angels’. Lithographed. This issue is featured on the website of the stamps dealer Spectre Stamps. Rating:- *** (resistibly cute).

27 November 2025 - 40th anniversary of Bushy’s Brewery - 1 sheetlet of 8 identical stamps and 8 non-postally valid labels sold in a pack costing £27.50 which also contains a sheet of ‘stickers’ and 8 reproduction beer mats. Limited to an edition of 1000. Rating:- 0.

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

3 December 2025 - Avatar Fire and Ash - 1 sheetlet containing 6 different stamps. Designed by Nick Jarvie and printed digitally by Collectables, Whanganui and perforated 14.5. Rating:- *.

2801. 🇮🇲 Manx Brewing Celebrated.

 

New issues -

🇦🇺 Australia Post -

28 October 2025 - The King’s Birthday, 77th birthday of King Charles III - 2 gummed stamps and 2 self-adhesive stamps and 1 gummed miniature sheet containing both stamps. Designed by Jo Muré and lithographed by RA Printing (gummed items) and perforated 14.5 x 14 ($1.70) and 14 x 14.5 ($4.35). Rating:- ****.

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Office -

10 October 2025 - Manx brewing anniversaries - 6 stamps. Designed by Ashgrove Marketing and lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇮🇳 India Post -

2025 - My stamp personalised stamp, 16th AADHAR Day (AADHAR is described as “India’s unique identification system”) - 1 stamp with attached label produced in sheetlets of 12 and sold by India Post at a premium. 

🇲🇼 Malawi postal service -

?2025 - Previously issued Butterflies definitive stamp reissued with surcharge K10 on K65 applied to it. See also Blog 2777. Rating:- *****.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

21 October 2025 - Aviation development in Hong Kong  - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Designed by Kar-wei cheng and lithographed by Enschedé and perforated 13.5 x 14.5. Rating:- ***.

2798. 🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Christmas Stamps Designed By College Stufents.

 

New Issues -

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

22 October 2025 - ‘Crank up Christmas’, 50th anniversary of University College Isle Of Man - 6 gummed stamps, 6 self-adhesive stamps and 2 booklets, one containing 10 x 90p values and 10 x £1 values. Total cost of all these items is £42.12p. Designed by students of University College and lithographed. Rating:- **.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

10 October 2025 - ‘S60’ (60the anniversary of the State of Singapore, My Stamp, ‘Stories of our post offices’ 5 different stamps (2 of each) with attached labels. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

2792. 🇳🇿 New Zealand’s Christmas Stamps.

 

New issues - 

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post - 

1 October 2025 - Christmas - 5 gummed stamps, 3 self-adhesive stamps from booklets and 1 miniature sheet containing all 5 gummed stamps. Designed by Nick Jarvis and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 14.5. Rating:- **.

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

 25 September 2025 - Commemoration of Rick Wakeman, veteran popular musician and longterm resident of Isle of Man - 6 stamps (total cost £12.81), 1 ‘Prestige booklet’ containing 4 panes (price £25.62), 1 ‘pane’ containing all 6 stamps (£12.81), 1 perforated ‘sheetlet’ containing all 6 stamps (£12.81) and 1 imperforate ‘sheetlet’ (“rare imperforate sheetlet …. limited to just 750 editions”) (cost £25). Designed from art by Roger Dean. Lithographed. Total cost of all the above items - £89.05. Rating:- 0.

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 -