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:- ***.

2740. 🇰🇪 Kenya Commemorates 8 Years Of Chinese Railway Collaboration..

 

New Issues -

🇰🇪 Posta Kenya -

10 June 2025 - 8th anniversary of collaboration with the Chinese People’s Republic in Kenya’s standard gauge railway - 8 stamps. Lithographed by Cartor. Rating:- *****.

🇮🇪 An Post (postal service of the Republic of Ireland) -

19 June 2025 - ‘Art on a stamp’, definitives (part 3) - 4 self-adhesive stamps sold in a coil and 1 self-adhesive stamp sold in a booklet of 10 or as a pair for collectors. Designed by Zinc Design and printed by HP Indigo High Resolution Print by CCL Label Ireland Ltd. Rating:- ****.

2739. 🇲🇹 Malta Commemorates Council Of Europe Presidency.

New issues -

🇲🇹 MaltaPost -

25 June 2025 - Malta’s assumption of the Presidency of the Council of Europe - 1 stamp. Designed by MaltaPost plc and lithographed by Printex and perforated 14. Rating:- **.

🇮🇳 India Post -

21 June 2025 - 11th International Yoga Day - 1 stamp. Printed by Security Printing Press Hyderabad. Rating:- ***.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

30 June 2025 - Fossil discoveries in Malaysia - 4 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

 

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post  -

21 June 2025 - Sri Dalada Poson Perehera Ethkanda Raja Maha Viharaya - Kurunegala - 1 stamp. Further details and illustration awaited.

2738. 🇨🇦 Further Canadian Stamps Celebrate Indigenous Groups Leaders.

 

New issues -

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

20 June 2025 - Indigenous community leaders, Sophie McDougall, champion of Métis culture in Canada and Bruce Starlight, preserver of the Tsúut’inà language - 2 self-adhesive stamps each printed in booklets of 6. Designed by Andrew Perro (Bruce Starlight stamp) and by Andrew Perro from an illustration by Jennifer Farris (Sophie McDougall stamp) and printed by Lowe Martin. Rating:- ****.

🇹🇹 T&T Post (postal service of Trinidad and Tobago) -

?2025 - 50th anniversary of CARICOM (which occurred in 2023) - 1 stamp. Previously issued definitive stamp with overprint and surcharge applied. Rating:- *****.

2737. 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea Airport Issue.

 

New issues -

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

23 July 2025 - Bicentenary of the former St James Church and now cultural centre, SEPAC, Architecture - 4 stamps. Further details awaited. Rating:-**.

🇵🇬 PNG Post (postal service of Papua New Guinea) -

Uncertain Date - Nadzab Tomodachi International Airport - 4 stamps £ 3 miniature sheets, one containing all 4 stamps, the second containing 2  stamps with attached labels and the third containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇨🇾🇰🇭 Joint issue of Cambodia post service and Cyprus Post -

2025 (see Blog 2727) - The Cambodian part of this joint issue has been released and is being sold by stamp dealers but there is presently no news of the corresponding stamp from Cyprus Post (if indeed there is to be such an issue). - 

2736. 🇨🇦 Canada Commemorates Preserver Of Inuit Heritage.

 

New issues -

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

20 June 2025 - Leaders of Indigenous Communities, Julia Haogak Ogina - 1 self-adhesive stamp issued in booklets of 6. Designed by Andrew Perro from a photograph by Matisse Harvey, Archives Radio Canada and lithographed by Lowe Martin. Part of an issue of 3 different stamps. Ogina is recognised for her attempts to preserve Inuit cultural heritage including the drum dance. Rating:- *****.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

?2024 - ‘Tracked post box prepaid label’, parcel post costing S$40  (equivalent to £23) for a pack and S$2.80 for 1 stamp (thanks to PE PHIL for correcting me on an error regarding the price). This item seems to fulfill all the criteria needed to be defined as a (parcel) postage stamp (definition of a postage stamp - “a small adhesive label issued by postal authorities that an affixed to an envelope, postcard or package as evidence that postage has been paid”). Rating:- ****.

🇧🇹 Bhutan Post -

4 June 2025 - Zambala, Buddhist Goddess of Wealth - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 4 different stamps and the other a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.