Monday, 30 June 2025

2746. Lovely Art Depicting Farm Animals Featured On Isle Of Man New Issue.




🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office

25 July 2025 - Farm animals in the Isle of Man - 6 stamps. Designed by EJC Design from artwork by Yolande Alberts and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 11.5. Lovely artwork but sadly just another excessive issue. Rating:- *.







🇮🇳 India Post -

28 June 2025 - Birth centenary of Acharya Vidyanand, Jain spiritual leader - 1 stamp. Rating:- **.



29 June 2025 - 75th anniversary of the National Survey Sample, My Stamp personalised stamp - 1 stamp. Issued in sheetlets of 12 with attached labels and sold at a premium.




June 2025 - Silver jubilee of the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro- and Small Enterprises, My Stamp personalised stamp - 1 stamp with attached label sold in a sheetlet of 12 stamps with attached labels at a premium price.





Sunday, 29 June 2025

2745. 🇳🇦 Namibia Commemorates 80th Anniversary Of The United Nations.

 

New issues - 

🇳🇦 Nam Post (postal service of Namibia) -

26 March 2025 - 80th anniversary of the United Nations Organisation - 1 stamp. Designed by Helge Denker. Lithographed. Rating:-***.


🇮🇳 India Post -

28 June 2025 - 25th anniversary of the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises, My Stamp personalised stamp - I stamp issued in a sheet of 12 with attached labels and sold at a premium.




  🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

2025 - Somewhat depressingly, Guernsey Post is once more announcing that it will be pressing ahead with ‘cyber stamps’ which were originally intended to be released in 2024 but were delayed due to a legal problem. This appears to be the same Golden Guernsey goat product held over from last year and further information will be released on 16 July 2025. We await the details with bated breath.







Commonwealth countries and territories which are not yet known to have issued or had issued on their behalf any legitimate postage stamps during 2025 - 

Anguilla 
Antigua and Barbuda 
Bahamas 
Barbados 
Belize 
British Antarctic Territory 
British Virgin Islands 
Cameroon
Cayman Islands 
Cook Islands including Rarotonga 
Cook Islands Aitutaki 
Cook Islands Penrhyn 
Dominica 
Gabon
Ghana 
Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique 
Guyana 
Kingdom of eSwatini 
Kiribati 
Lesotho 
Malawi 
Mauritius 
Mozambique 
Nauru 
Nevis
New Zealand Ross Dependency 
Nigeria 
Niue
Papua New Guinea 
Pitcairn Islands 
Rwanda 
St Kitts or St Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia 
St Vincent and the Grenadines 
Samoa
Solomon Islands 
South Africa 
The Gambia 
Tokelau 
Tonga
Tonga Niuafo’ou 
Turks and Caicos Islands 
Tuvalu 
Uganda 
United Republic of Tanzania 
Vanuatu 
Zambia 

Therefore, at the end of June, 47 (53.4%) of Commonwealth philatelic entities appear to not have issued or had issued on their behalf any legitimate postage stamps on 2025. This compares with 58.2% at the end of May 2025 and 51.1% at the end of June 2024.


Saturday, 28 June 2025

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.





Friday, 27 June 2025

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:- *****.