2952. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail Military Jets Issue Includes ‘Fan Sheet’.

 

New issues -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

30 July 2026 - Military jet aircraft. This issue is now shown on the Royal Mail internet site with good quality illustrations - 8 stamps (2 setenant strips of 4) (cost £14.40), 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps commemorating Sir Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine (£7.20), 1 ‘Fan sheet’ costing £8 containing 4 identical stamps and 1 ‘Collectors sheet’ containing 10 stamps, sold for £19.20. Total cost:- £48.80. Designed by Webb & Webb Design Ltd and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating:- *.

2949. 🇬🇧 First Sight Of Royal Mail Military Aircraft Stamps.

 

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

30 July 2026 - Military jet aircraft, 30th anniversary of the death of Sir Frank Whittle - 8 stamps (2 se-tenant strips of 4 x 1st Class)  and 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. The miniature sheet commemorates Sir Frank Whittle, the 30th anniversary of whose birth occurs on 8 August 2026 who invented the jet engine. Lithographed. Further details to follow and better quality illlustrations will be provided when available. Rating:- **.

2945. 🇨🇾 Cyprus New Issue Depicts Old Cars.

 

New issues -

🇨🇾 Cyprus Post -

10 July 2026 - 2 issues both printed by Baltic Banknote High Security Printing -

Euromed, traditional mosaics of the Mediterranean - 1 stamp.(illustrated at the head of this Blog). Rating:- *****.

Old cars - 4 stamps issued in a se-tenant block of 4. Rating:- *****.

🇱🇹 Stamperija (exploitative ‘philatelic agency’ based in Lithuania) -

🇹🇬 Products inscribed ‘République Togolaise’ (Togo) -

2026 (no date specified) - Boston 2026 International philatelic exhibition, Trump’s 80th birthday - 2 miniature sheets’, one containing 4 different ‘stamps’ and the other a single ‘stamp’. Rating:- 0.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

11 August 2026 - Tales of St Helier - 8 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 8 stamps. Designed by Becca Thorne, Lithographed. Rating:- *.

🇶🇦 Death of the former Emir of Qatar.

It was announced on 12 July 2026 that the former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani, who had been featured on a number of postage stamps and who had been in longstanding ill health had died. He had ruled Qatar from 27 June 1995 to 25 June 2013 when he abdicated in favour of his son Tamim bin Khalifa al Thani who is the present Emir of Qatar. He had seized power in a coup in 1995 overthrowing his father Khalifa bin Hamad al Thani and during his reign Qatar became the country with the highest per capita income in the world. Qatar was a British Protectorate from 1916 to 1971.

2914. 🇯🇪 Jersey Notes Its International Connections.

 

New issues -

🇯🇪  Jersey Post -

21 May 2026 - Jersey’s international connections - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 6 stamps. Designed by Daniel Allison and lithographed by bpost. Rating:-*.

Barely a day seems to go by without the announcement of a new issue from either Royal Mail or the offshore islands. When will this all end?

🇭🇰Hong Kong Post -

28 May 2026 - Road Safety campaign - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Prudence Mak and lithographed by Enschedé. Rating:- **.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

8 May 2026 - Special stamps for use by Sri Lanka’s Members of Parliament, sold to the public cancelled-to-order - 2 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.