2896. 🇮🇲 Isle Of Man And New Multi-territory Sheet Commemorate Queen Elizabeth.

  New issues -

🇮🇲 Isle of Man Post Office -

21 April 2026 - Birth centenary of Queen Elizabeth II (‘fashion legacy of Her Majesty’ - 6 stamps costing £13.48 and 1 pack costing £35 and containing 2 panes, one a sheet of 12 stamps (2 each of stamps from Isle of Man, Ascension Island, Bahamas, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and Tristan Da Cunha) and the other sheet made up of 18 different Isle of Man stamps). Lithographed. Rating:-*****.

New issue programmes.

The philatelic dealer, Spectre of Stamps has reported the following new issue programmes for 2026 -

🇲🇼 Postal service of Kenya -

Birds and butterflies

Diplomatic relations with Russia.

No dates of issue have been reported yet.

🇸🇨 Postal service of Seychelles -

June 2026 - 50th anniversary of independence 

October 2026 - 165th anniversary of the establishment of the Seychelles postal service 

🇧🇲 Postal service of Bermuda -

Remaining issues are -

May 2026 - Perot post office cancellations 

August 2026 - 60th anniversary of the Bermuda Regiment

2862. 🇮🇪🇬🇧 Love Is In The Air In Ireland. Royal Mail Model Railways.

 

New issues -

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

6 February 2026 - Love, stamps for St Valentine’s Day mail - 1 self-adhesive domestic postage rate stamp (‘N’) issued in booklets of 10. Designed by UNTHINK and lithographed by Enschedé. Rating:- ***.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

19 February 2026 - 125th anniversary of Hornby Hobbies, producers of Hornby Model Railways (children’s’ toys) - 8 1st Class domestic rate stamps (4 horizontally se-tenant pairs, costing £13.60) and 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps, costing £6.80. Designed by The Chase and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14,5 x 14. Rating:- *.

2740. 🇰🇪 Kenya Commemorates 8 Years Of Chinese Railway Collaboration..

 

New Issues -

🇰🇪 Posta Kenya -

10 June 2025 - 8th anniversary of collaboration with the Chinese People’s Republic in Kenya’s standard gauge railway - 8 stamps. Lithographed by Cartor. Rating:- *****.

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

19 June 2025 - ‘Art on a stamp’, definitives (part 3) - 4 self-adhesive stamps sold in a coil and 1 self-adhesive stamp sold in a booklet of 10 or as a pair for collectors. Designed by Zinc Design and printed by HP Indigo High Resolution Print by CCL Label Ireland Ltd. Rating:- ****.

1882. 🇯🇪 Jersey Post Recalls The 1990s.

 🇯🇪  Jersey Post will issue a set of 6 stamps and 2 miniature sheets, one containing all 6 stamps and the other a single stamp, on 14 July on the subject of 1990s Culture, an ongoing series stamps of looking at local culture over recent decades. This issue seems to emphasise the extraordinarily superficial nature of recent western culture finding little more to feature than confectionery and boy bands. It is also emphasises the triviality of so many subjects featured on recent stamp issues from postal services such as Jersey Post. The designs are by various artists - 54p by Mark Ward, 74p by Laura Callaghan, 88p by David Downton, £1 by eBoy, £1.25 by Serge Sedlitz and £1.30 by Joshua Budich. The designs confirm that the 1990s was a decade well worth remembering (possibly) by the inhabitants of Jersey.

  Sadly this is yet just another forgettable set that Jersey Post has managed to secrete to add to its enormous list of philatelic secretions of recent years. Rating:- 0.

  🇵🇰 Meanwhile, an altogether different kettle of fish from the postal service of Pakistan, with the issue on 21 May 2021 of a se-tenant pair of hexagonal stamps which commemorate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of its diplomatic relations with The People’s Republic Of China. These designs by Mughiz Khan must be some of the least interesting of the year depicting as they do views of two sea ports. The issue was lithographed by National Security Printing Company Karachi and the stamps are perforated 13. Rating:- *.

🇮🇳 India Post is expected to release a single stamp on 10 June 2021 as a joint issue with the German postal service to commemorate the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The design depicts German and Indian dancers as well as important monuments in the two countries. Rating:- ***.

1733. 🇯🇪 Jersey Post Recalls The 1980s.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post will issue a set of 6 stamps and 2 miniature sheets (1 containing a single stamp and the other the 6 stamps in the set) on the subject of the 1980s popular culture on 6 October 2020. The issue was designed by Hat Trick Design (London) Ltd and printed in lithography. This issue would be perfectly acceptable if only Jersey Post did not issue so many other sets during the year but when there are so many it seems like this is just another excessive issue. Rating:- *.

Jersey Post will also issue its strip of 6 Coastal flowers Post and Go stamps with an additional inscription ‘Virtual Autumn/Stampex 2020’ from 1 to 3 October 2020 from the JE03 kiosk. These items commemorate the postal administration having “a booth at this innovative philatelic event”.The sales period is very limited but at least the items are being dispensed in Jersey rather than in London where they would have no postal validity. Rating:- *.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post will also issue a strip of its 6 Fishing Boat Post and Go stamps from its vending machine at Envoy House in St Peter Port (GG02) with the additional inscription ‘Virtual Autumn/Stampex 2020’ on 1 to 3 October 2020 which, as for Jersey Post’s issue, makes for a very limited sale period. But at least they are being sold from a machine in Guernsey rather than in London where they have no postal validity which is usually the case with these Channel Island Stampex souvenirs. Rating:- *.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia issued a Personalised Setemku sheet of 10 different stamps on 10 September 2020 on the subject of the fashion of a company called FashionValet. Similar clothes to these, I assume, will be featured on any future Jersey Post set commemorating popular culture of the 2020s.

🇵🇳 From 20 September 2020 the Pitcairn Islands Philatelic Bureau in Wellington in New Zealand will cease to operate and sales of the stamps of Pitcairn Island will be handled by Tower Mint in London. Tower Mint will also run a programme of coinage issues for Pitcairn.