2903. 🇳🇿 New Zealand Commemorates Popular Musician.

 

New issues -

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

3 June 2026 - Commemoration of Sir Dave Dobbyn, New Zealand popular musician- 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Designed by Chris Jones of Graphetti and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating:- *.

🇮🇲 🇸🇭🇧🇸 🇫🇰 🇬🇸🇸🇭 Isle Of Man Post Office and others -

21 April 2026 - Birth centenary of the late Queen Elizabeth II - large booklet costing £35 released by the Isle of Man Post Office containing four pages, two of which take the form of self-adhesive panes, the first containing 12 different black and white stamps - 2 each from the postal services of Isle Of Man, Ascension Island, Bahamas, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and Tristan Da Cunha (the stamps of all these countries and territories have been marketed by Isle of Man Stamps since Pobjoy Stamps ceased business) and the second pane containing versions of 12 different previously issued Isle of Man stamps which featured Her Late Majesty (all perforated) and 6 illustrations of the present Isle Of Man stamps depicting the late Queen ‘cancelled’ with gold, small circular ‘postmarks’.

These multi-territory items are my guilty pleasure even though in this particular case the booklet is said to be going to be sold only by the Isle of Man Post Office and not in Bahamas nor the British Overseas Territories. Without checking, I think the first pane features the first ever self-adhesive stamps from several of the territories - Bahamas, Ascension, Tristan Da Cunha and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.