2926. 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Celebrates Vesak.

 

New issues -

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

27 May 2026 - State Vesak Festival - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

27 May 2026 - Vesak (Buddhist religious festival) - 3 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 3 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇮🇳 India Post -

11 May 2026 - 75th anniversary of the consecration of the reconstructed Somnath temple in Gujarat - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

May 2026 - My Stamps, personalised stamps with attached labels sold by India Post at a premium price & usually produced in sheetlets of 12,

International Day for Biodiversity - 1 stamp.

45th anniversary of The Art of Living - 

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

31 May 2026 - Parrots of Malaysia -  stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇯🇴 Jordan Post -

2 June 2026 - The Jordan team’s qualification for the FIFA World Cup finals hosted in north America- 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

2925. 🇹🇬 ‘Togo’ And Its Latest Philatelic ‘Gems’.

 

New issues -

🇮🇳 India Post -

15 May 2026 - Commemoration of Acharya Dinesh Chandra Joshi, Sanskrit scholar and educationalist - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

🇱🇹🇦🇪 Products released probably by a Stamperija/Aurescollections collaboration - 

🇹🇬 Products inscribed République Togolaise (Togo) -

Stated ‘date of issue’ - 4 May 2026 - Numerous products including previously issued ‘stamps’ reissued with surcharges applied both perforated and imperforate, miniature sheets perforated and imperforate, ‘proofs’, ‘first day covers’ and postcards. Once more I ask myself, does anyone actually buy this stuff? All are rated ‘0’

Surcharges on previous issues -

Truffle hunting dogs - 1 miniature sheet containing 9 stamps , (2 of 4 of the stamps plus a single of the 5th stamp.

Owls - 1 miniature sheet containing 9 stamps (2 x 4 plus one single stamp).

Tortoises - 1 miniature sheet containing 9 stamps (2 x 4 plus a single stamp) -

Frogs - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps -

New designs -

Recognition of the State of Palestine by several countries  - 4 stamps and 4 miniature sheets, imperforate and perforated plus other items 

Wildlife of the rain forest - 15 stamps in perforated and imperforate formats, 5 miniature sheets/ 

Sheetlets plus numerous other products.

Wildlife of the Amazon region (south America) - 10 stamps and 5 miniature sheets all available in perforated and imperforate format plus other products.

50th anniversary of ECOWAS - 1 stamp. It now appears that a version of this stamp has been released in sheet format containing stamps from Togo only rather than the multicountry-national sheet containing the stamps of 12 different philatelic entities.