2899. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail Reveals New Issues For Second Half Of 2026.

 

2026 New issue programmes.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

Royal Mail has now revealed most of the remaining new issues for 2026.

The subjects of two issues have still not been revealed. The Commonwealth Games are to be hosted between 23 July and 2 August and there appears to be no issue to celebrate the Games. This will be the first Commonwealth Games to be hosted in the United Kingdom not to be marked by a Royal Mail stamp issue. This appears to be a remarkably random collection of subjects and there seems to be little of significance to justify the vast amounts of money which doubtlessly will need to be paid by one-of-everything collectors (if there are any such creatures still in existence). Depressing. I’m not really all that interested to know what the unidentified issues are. Ho hum.

New issues -

🇮🇳 India Post -

16 April 2026 - Commemoration of Pandit Chatur Lal, musician - 1 stamp. Rating:-***. 

🇲🇾 9 April 2026 - Treasures of the national visual arts, part 3 - 3 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

2898. 🇯🇪 Jersey To Issue £10 Stamp To To Commemorate Queen Eden Elizabeth II.

 

New issues -

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

21 April 2026 - Birth centenary of Queen Elizabeth II - 1 x £10 stamp printed in lithography by Cartor in sheetlets of 4 stamps. Rating:- *.

🇰🇾 Cayman Islands postal service -

 2 March 2026 - International Women’s Month, Female national heroes of Cayman Islands (as shown in Blog 2884) - in addition to the 4 stamps from sheets, smaller self-adhesive versions of each stamp exist all taken from booklets. These items are shown & offered for sale on the Spectre-of-Stamps internet site on e bay from which the illustrations are obtained. Thanks to Stewie 1980 for drawing my attention to these items. Rating:- *****.

🇧🇲 Bermuda postal service -

19 March 2026 - Bermuda art - 4 stamps. Reported on the Blog previously but better illustrations of the stamps are now displayed here -

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

18 April 2026 - 125th anniversary of the Institute for Medical Research - 2 stamps issued as a se-tenant pair and 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

2897. 🇳🇿 New Zealand Celebrates Foraging.

 

New issues -

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

6 May 2026 - ‘Foraging’ - 4 gummed stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps . Designed by Nick Jarvie and lithographed by Brebner Print. Attractive but inconsequential. Rating:- *.

🇮🇳India Post -

12 April 2026 - India’s human space programme - 2 stamps and 2 miniature sheets each containing a single stamp. Rating:- ****.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

24 February 2026 - Horses - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

2896. 🇮🇲 Isle Of Man And New Multi-territory Sheet Commemorate Queen Elizabeth.

  New issues -

🇮🇲 Isle of Man Post Office -

21 April 2026 - Birth centenary of Queen Elizabeth II (‘fashion legacy of Her Majesty’ - 6 stamps costing £13.48 and 1 pack costing £35 and containing 2 panes, one a sheet of 12 stamps (2 each of stamps from Isle of Man, Ascension Island, Bahamas, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and Tristan Da Cunha) and the other sheet made up of 18 different Isle of Man stamps). Lithographed. Rating:-*****.

New issue programmes.

The philatelic dealer, Spectre of Stamps has reported the following new issue programmes for 2026 -

🇲🇼 Postal service of Kenya -

Birds and butterflies

Diplomatic relations with Russia.

No dates of issue have been reported yet.

🇸🇨 Postal service of Seychelles -

June 2026 - 50th anniversary of independence 

October 2026 - 165th anniversary of the establishment of the Seychelles postal service 

🇧🇲 Postal service of Bermuda -

Remaining issues are -

May 2026 - Perot post office cancellations 

August 2026 - 60th anniversary of the Bermuda Regiment

2895. 🇬🇧 The Queen.

 

New issues.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail - 

21 April 2026 - Birth centenary of the late Queen Elizabeth II - 8 stamps (4 vertically se-tenant pairs) (cost £14.40), 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps (£7.20), 1 ‘Collectors sheet’ containing all 8 stamps lithographed in self-adhesive format with attached labels (£15:60) and 1 Prestige booklet containing 4 panes including one containing King Charles III definitives - 2 x 50p and 2 x £1 (cost £26.25). Designed by Baxter & Bailey and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14. Total cost - £63.45.

The basic set depicts a photograph from each of decades of the late queen’s life excluding the1920s when she was a small child and the 1990s, the decade which included 1997 which she memorably called her annus horribilis.

Rating:- *****.

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