2947. 🇸🇬Singapore Issue Commemorates 61st Anniversary Of Independence.

 

New issues -

🇮🇲 Isle of Man Post Office -

31 July 2026 - 150th anniversary of the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway and 50th anniversary of Isle of Man National Transport  - 6 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- **.

 🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

16 July 2026 - Medicinal mushrooms - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post - 

7 August 2026 - 61st anniversary of Independence - 3 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 3 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

2943. 🇳🇿 New Zealand Post Features Daffodils And Old Postcards.

 

New issues -

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

5 August 2026 - Centenary of the National Daffodil Society, Cancer Day - 1 miniature sheet containing 6 different stamps. Designed by Nick Jarvie and digitally printed by New Zealand Post and perforated 14.5 x15. Rating:- **.

5 August 2025 - Early postcards - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Nick Jarvie and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 15. Rating:- *. Attractive stamps but there is no obvious reason for their issue and NZ Post now releases far too many stamps and too many issues per annum.

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

2 July 2026 - Assumption of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union by the Republic of Ireland - 1 self-adhesive stamp, Designed by Boyle Design Group and lithographed by Enschedé. Rating:- **.

🇲🇹 MaltaPost -

13 July 2026 - Euromed, Mosaics of the Mediterranean - 2 miniature sheets each containing a single stamp. Designed from photographs by Daniel Cilia and Sebio Aquilina and lithographed by Printex and perforated 14. Rating:- *****.

🇵🇬 PNG Post (postal service of Papua New Guinea) -

22 August 2025 - The traditional Papua New Guinea roundhouse - 4 stamps, 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

This issue is depicted on the E bay internet site of the dealer Spectre-of-Stamps and should be available to buy shortly.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

1 July 2026 - National Institute of Health Sciences, Kalutara - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Illustration will be added when available. Rating:- ***.

2726.🇧🇼 🇵🇬 Botswana New Issue Features Local Arts And Crafts; PNG Ferns.

 

New issues -

🇧🇼 Botswana Post -

27 February 2025 - Local arts and crafts - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Shathani Basupi from artwork by Omphile Sefako and lithographed by Brebner Print. Rating:- *****.

🇵🇬 PNG Post (postal service of Papua New Guinea) -

?August 2023 or more recently - Ferns in Papua New Guinea - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheets,  one containing a single stamp and the other 4 different stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- **.

2575. 🇮🇪 Ireland Joins The Cryptostamp Craze.

 

New Issues -

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

26 September 2024 - ‘Imagine Ireland’, images created by Artificial Intelligence in which “artist Kasia Osmín used AI technology to explore the intersection of traditional and modern lifestyles, envisioning new possibilities for urban and rural settlements ” - 2 self-adhesive stamps sold in booklets of 8 (domestic rate) or 4 (international rate) and 2 booklets sold for €9 each, each containing a single ‘cryptostamp’, one with the domestic rate face value and the other with the international rate. Lithographed by Enschedé. The hilarious description of the product on An Post’s internet site also states, “The generative art used in this project allows for a creative imagining of housing and transport, blending the familiar with the fantastical to suggest new ways of living in harmony with Ireland’s natural resources”.

Rating:- 0.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

1 October 2024 - New £2.80 King Charles III Barcode definitive stamp necessitated by revised international postal rate. Photogravure by Cartor. Perforated 15 x 14.5. The postal rate change will come into effect on 7 October 2024. The stamp’s colour is described somewhat imaginatively as ‘slate blue’. Rating:- ***.

🇮🇳 India Post -

2024 - My Stamps (personalised stamps usually sold in sheetlets of 12 with attached labels at a premium price - 500Rs for 12 x 5Rs stamps)

2024 - 40th anniversary of the Institutes of Neurosciences, Apollo Hospitals - 1 stamp.

2024 - Centenary of the National Institute of Secondary Agriculture - 1 stamp.

‘PM Vishwarkana - A Year of Progress’, Artisan professions - 6 stamps each issued in its own sheetlet of 12 identical stamps.