2744. 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Features National Park In New Issue.

 

New issues -

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post - 

26 June 2025 - Minneriya National Park - 10 stamps and 10 miniature sheets each containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

June 2025 - 85th anniversary of the evacuation of the island ahead of the occupation by Nazi German troops, Post and Go - ‘Jersey Flag’ stamp with additional inscription ‘85 Yrs Evacuation’ dispensed by machines JE03 (Postal HQ) and JE02 (Broad Street PO). Sold in strips with 6 different denominations.

2743. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail Mushrooms Stamps.

 New issues -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

3 July 2025 - Mushrooms - 10 stamps (2 se-tenant strips of 5 different stamps - 5 x 2nd Class & 5 x 1st Class). Designed by Studio Up and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5). Total cost £12.85p.

  What is the point of this issue which is just a random subject and is nothing more than a collection of photographs with the King’s head and the value added to them? This is the sort of stuff that IGPC poured out on to the market in times past. Rating:- 0.

 

🇴🇲 Oman Post -

25 June 2025 - 50th anniversary of Oman’s membership of the World Meteorological Organisation - 1 miniature sheet. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇲🇲 Myanmar Post -

20 June 2025 - Costumes of Six Eras - 1 sheetlet containing 12 different redrawn stamps which had been issued previously in 2021 and 2022. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

2742. 🇬🇧 Quick Peek At Royal Mail Mushroom Stamps

 

New issues - 

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

3 July 2026 - Mushrooms - 10 stamps (2 se-tenant strips of 5 different stamps, 5 x 2nd & 5 x 1st) - 

Ahead of the imminent official revelation of the new Royal Mail Mushrooms stamps here’s a glimpse of what to expect - 

27 November 2025 - The stamps of Queen Victoria. 

  Royal Mail has now revealed the subject matter of the final issue of 2025 on its ‘stamp calendar’. Queen Victoria died on 22 January 1901 - perhaps these products are being released to tie in with a commemoration of the 125th anniversary of that event.

2741. 🇸🇬. Singapore Celebrates Local Modern Architecture.

 

New issues -

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

7 July 2025 - Modern architecture in Singapore - 5 stamps. Further details awaited. Rating:- ***.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

23 July 2025 - 250th Birthday of JMW Turner - 4 stamps depicting sketches and the locations sketched by Turner during a visit to Guernsey - 4 stamps and 1 prestige booklet (price awaited). Further details awaited. Rating:- ***.

This is important anniversary is not being commemorated by Royal Mail although it is planning 16 issues during 2025.

Issue inscribed Alderney -

23 July 2025 - ‘The Wombles Trail’ - 6 stamps and 1 prestige booklet costing £32.64p. Elizabeth Beresford, the English inventor of the Wombles, characters in her children’s books (one was named Alderney), was a resident of Alderney from 1978 till her death in 2010 and became a local politician specialising in matters related to children. Further details and illustrations awaited.Rating:- ***.