2671. 🇿🇼 2024 Zimbabwe Issue Depicts Wire Toys.

 

New Issues -

🇿🇼 Zim Post (postal service of Zimbabwe) -

30 September 2024 - Wire toys - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇨🇾 Cyprus Post -

27 February 2025 - Motorcycles - 4 stamps printed in sheets of 8 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

27 February 2025 - Refugee stamp - 1 stamps printed in. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

Postal rates -

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

2670. 🇮🇲 Isle Of Man’s Knox Issue Balloons In Cost.

 

New Issues -

🇮🇳 India Post -

February 2025 - Personalised My Stamps usually sold in sheetlets of 12 with attached labels at a premium price.

The Waghnakh, medieval weapon from Maharastra - 1 stamp.

February 2025 - Commemoration of Tanaji Malusare, fighter against the Mughals - 1 stamp. 

February 2025 - Birth centenary of the late Shri Mulchand G Shah, philanthropist - 1 stamp.

🇴🇲 Oman Post -

21 February 2025 - Joint issue with Singapore Post, 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Oman and Singapore (see Blog 2663) - 1 stamp issued in a sheetlet of 8. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

27 February 2025 - ‘Archibald Knox Order and Beauty’. This issue was featured in Blog 2657 where I mentioned that I could not find any reason for such an issue to be released at this particular time but publicity put out by the IOM PO on 21 February 2025 relates this issue to a major exhibition at the Manx Museum to open on the 5 April, and to run for a year, of many of Knox’s notable art works. This seems a good enough reason to me though sadly it now appears that there are to be more philatelic items to be released as part of this issue. 

The basic set of 10 stamps featured in Blog 2657 which will be issued as a gummed sheetlet of 10 and will cost £12.34. There will also be 2 booklets each of 10 self-adhesive stamps costing respectively £9 (10 x 90p) and £10 (10 x £1) and a ‘Prestige booklet’ which will cost £24.68 including a pane of the 10 stamps from the booklet which will be sold separately for £12.34, making a grand total for those who really must have ‘one of everything’ of £68.36. 

All this additional trumpery moonshine ensures this issue remains rated:- *.

As if all the above were not bad enough -

14 January 2025 - 60th anniversary of the Isle of Man Arts Council - 10 stamps from sheets (previously featured in Blog 2637). In addition to the basic set of 10 stamps (cost £ ) there is also a coil of 10 self-adhesive stamps of varying values reproducing the designs of the basic set and sold by Isle Of Man Stamps and Coins for £11.15. Rating:- *

2669. 🇮🇪 Irish Republic’s St Patrick’s Festival Issue.

 

New Issues -

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

20 February 2025 - St Patrick’s Day Festival - 4 self-adhesive stamps. Designed by Detail and lithographed by Enschedé in sheetlets of 4 (one of each stamp). Rating:- ***. 

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post -

20;February 2025 - 60th anniversary of the first flight between Pakistan and China - 1 stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing 3 different stamps. Designed by Omair Obaid (stamp) and Iftikar Amad (miniature sheet) and lithographed by National Security Printing Company Karachi and perforated 13. Rating:- ***.

2668. 🇦🇺 Australia Post New Issues.

 

New Issues -

🇦🇺 Australia Post -

February 2025 - Chinese New Year, Hello Kitty!, My Stamp stamp pack - Pack containing a sheetlet of 9 different stamps and what is described as a single “large lookalike stamp not suitable for postage [face value $1.50]” and sold at a premium of $17. Rating:- 0.

11 March 2025 - ‘Living seashells’ - 3 gummed stamps (total face value $4.50) and 3 self-adhesive stamps sold in individual booklets of 10, each costing $15 (total cost $45). Designed by Janet Boschen from photographs taken by Brian R Mayes and lithographed by RA Printing and perforated 14.5. Rating:- *.

🇨🇽 Issue inscribed Christmas Island Australia -

18 March 2025 - Cultural festivals - 4 gummed stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Designed by c. Visua and lithographed by Southern Impact  and perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating:- **.

25 March 2025 - 50th anniversary of colour television in Australia - 1 gummed stamp and 1 self-adhesive stamp sold in ‘sheetlets’ of 5 costing $15. Designed by Lynda Warner and lithographed by Southern Impact and perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating:- ***.

8 April 2025 - Raptors, Birds of Prey - 3 gummed stamps, 3 self-adhesive stamps sold in individual booklets of 10 each costing $15 and 1 gummed miniature sheet containing all 3 stamps. Designed by Tim Hancock of Backpack and lithographed by EGO and perforated 14 x 14.5. Rating:- *.

15 April 2025 - ‘Postcards From The Front’, part 2 - 2 gummed stamps, 1 self-adhesive stamp from booklets of 10 costing $15, 1 self-adhesive stamp from a ‘sheetlet’ of 5 costing $14.50 and 1 miniature sheet containing both stamps. Designed by Jo Muré and lithographed by EGO and RA Printing and perforated 14 x 14.5. Rating:- *.

🇦🇺 Issues inscribed Australian Antarctic Territory -

22 April 2025 - The Aurora Australis - 4 gummed stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Designed by Jo Muré and lithographed by Southern Colour Print and perforated 14 x 14.5. Rating:- ***.

20 - 23 March 2025 - Sydney Stamp and Coin Expo 2025 - 1 miniature sheet containing 3 different stamps, also issued daily for the 3 days of the exhibition with cancellations applied for each individual day and in high limited editions of 150. Rating:- 0.

‘Stamp packs’ containing personalised My Stamps, all sold at a premium (all rated 0) -

2025 - Looney Tunes Easter stamp pack - 1 sheetlet of 12 different stamps sold for $29. 

Bambi stamp pack sold for $24 - 1 pane of 9 different stamp and 1 pane of 5 gummed Greetings stamps with attached labels.

Mandalorian - 1 pane of 9 different stamps and 1 “large lookalike stamp not suitable for postage” (face value $1.50), all sold for $17.