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. Rating:- ****.

2462. 🇬🇧 Mary Anning Leads Royal Mail’s Search For Dinosaur Fossils.

New issues -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

12 March 2024 - The Age of Dinosaurs, 225th anniversary of the birth of Mary Anning (discoverer of dinosaur fossils) -8 stamps (4 se-tenant pairs) and 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps). Designed by The Chase from digital artwork by Joshua Dunlop and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14. The miniature sheet stamps are self-adhesive. Rating:- ****** (a rare 6 stars).

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

1 March 2014 - 150th anniversary of Sri Lanka Law College - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- **.

1 March 2024 -“UNFOA - 50 years of ensuring rights a nd choices for all” - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- **.

🇮🇳 India Post -

My Stamps, personalised stamps with attached labels sold at a premium by India Post and usually in sheets of 12 identical stamps.

2024 - 25th anniversary of MIOT International - 1 stamp.

2024 - 50th anniversary of Agarwal Coal Corporation Pvt Ltd - 1 stamp.

2024 - 25th anniversary of the India National Centre for Ocean Information Services,Ministry of Earth Sciences - 1 stamp.

2024 - Centenary of Karnataka Bank - 1 stamp.

2023 - The Nilgiri tahr, the state animal of Tamil Nadu.

🇨🇾 Cyprus Post -

Personalised stamps sold by Cyprus Post -

2022 - 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Cyprus and India and the 75th anniversary of the Independence of India - 1 sheet of 15 identical stamps with different attached labels. Lithographed.

2023 - 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Cyprus and Australia - 1 sheetlet containing 10 stamps (5 x 2 different stamps) with attached labels. Lithographed.

2461. 🇬🇧 Dinosaurs And Postal Rate Rises Next From Royal Mail.

 

New issues -

🇬🇧Royal Mail - 

12 March 2024 - The Age of Dinosaurs - 8 stamps (4x1st and 4x£2 in vertically se-tenant pairs so that each pair makes up a single image) and 1 miniature sheet containing 4 x 1st stamps). Further details awaited. Rating:- ****.

  The above poor quality illustrations are taken from an internet auction site where a seller is offering the 1st Class rate stamps only in complete sheets. This seller appears to advertise the 1st rate Royal Mail new issues like this on a regular basis before the embargo on publicising them imposed on most stamp dealers has been lifted.

  These are certainly beautifully illustrated items though why those who decide on Royal Mail’s new issue programme feel that yet another set on the subject of dinosaurs is necessary is not easy to understand.

  Anyone considering adding them to their collection will wish to note that Royal Mail has announced an increase in postal rates from 2 April 2024 when the 1st Class domestic letter rate increases from £1.25 to £1.35 and so it will be best to buy them in the first month after their issue to avoid paying the added sum of 10p per stamp. The 2nd Class domestic letter rate will also rise from 75p to 85p and other changes include a rise in the Large letter up to 100g rate from £1.95 to £2.10 and a rise in Worldwide letter rates from £2.20 to £2.50p. 

  Ian Billings’ indispensable Norvic Philatelic Blog has just produced a highly detailed summary of all the changes Royal Mail is making to its postal rates and points out that there will be a new £2.50 definitive stamp to address the change in Worldwide letter rate. The colour of the new stamp is described as Gooseberry Green which sounds like the rather twee name of a tiny Worcestershire hamlet with a village pond at the centre of it. The new stamp is an “insipid colour”which will liven up any item of mail winging its way across the oceans.

  As regards the Royal Mail King Charles III definitives, both the 2nd Class and 1st Class domestic rate stamps from counter sheets with code M24L MAIL are now on sale.

🇨🇦 Canada Post - 

1 March 2024 - Wild flowers - 2 self-adhesive stamps from booklets of 10 (5 of each design), 2 self-adhesive stamps from coils and 1 gummed miniature sheet containing both stamps. Designed by Andrew Perro from illustrations by Alain Massicote and lithographed by Lowe Martin. Rating:- *****.