2919. 🇳🇿 World Cup And Rural Women Stamps From New Zealand.

 

New issues -

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

6 May 2026 - Participation of the All Whites New Zealand Football team in the FIFA World Cup Championships in North America - 1 sheetlet containing 6 stamps (2 x identical $4.20 and 4 x identical $2.90). Designed by Nick Jarvie and digitally printed by NZ Post Collectables, Whanganui and perforated 14.5. Rating:- *. What a grim, effortless design.

3 June 2026 - Centenary of Rural Women New Zealand - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different stamps. Designed by YMC Design and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 15. Rating:- **. Another triumph of dull design from New Zealand Post but it’s good ro see a set of just 2 stamps and not more (Royal Mail take note).

🇵🇰Pakistan Post -

21 May 2026 - “75 Years of the Iron Brotherhood” between Pakistan and the People’s Republic of China” - 1 stamp. Lithographed by Pakistan Security Printing Corporation Karachi. Rating:- ****.

20 May 2026 - Commemoration of the late Aga Khan IV, 1936 - 1925, notable humanitarian - 1 stamp. Lithographed by Pakistan Security Printing Corporation Karachi. Rating:- ****.

2469. 🇨🇦 Canada Commemorates Total Solar Eclipse.

 

New issues.

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

14 March 2024 - Total eclipse of the sun, 8 April 2024 - 1 self-adhesive stamp. Designed by Richard Nalli-Petta using an illustration by Michael Karcz. Lithographed by Colour Innovations in booklets  Rating:- *****.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

?December 2023 or ?15 January 2024 - Se Temku, Personalised stamps, 75th anniversary of the Malaysian Red Crescent, ‘A Humanitarian Story’ - 1 sheetlet containing 10 different stamps sold in a folder for RM75.

2138. 🇮🇪 An Post Commemorates Centenary Of Michael Collins’ Murder.

 

New issues.

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

18 August 2022 - Centenary of the murder of Michael Collins. Collins was the head of the Provisional Government of Ireland in line with the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921. He had formerly been the director of Intelligence for the IRA and had been Joseph Plunkett’s aide-de-camp during the 1916 Easter Rising. He was a strong supporter of the Anglo-Irish Treaty which would lead to the establishment of the Dominion of Ireland and paid the price for this support when an anti-Treaty faction of the IRA ambushed him at Béal na mBlath in County Cork on 22 August 2022.

Designed by Ger Garland from a photograph by C and L Walsh and lithographed by Enschedé and perforated 14 x 13.5. Rating:- *****.

🇶🇦 Qatar Post -

19 August 2022 - World Humanitarian Day - 1 sheetlet containing 10 stamps (2 vertical se-tenant strips of 5 different stamps with attached labels). Further details awaited. Rating:- **.

🇵🇬 PNG Post, postal service of Papua New Guinea -

Date uncertain ?2021 ?2022 - 

Originally scheduled for release 24 May 2021 - Centenary of the Royal Papua Yacht Club - 4 stamps and 2 miniature sheets, I containing 4 different stamps and the other a single stamp. Rating:- *****.

Originally scheduled for release 1 June 2021 - 70th anniversary of Mission Aviation Fellowship - 4 stamps and 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 4 different stamps and the other a single stamp. Rating:- *****. 

Note - a long awaited set depicting Birds of Paradise was scheduled for release on 7 June 2021. It will be interesting to see if this now also becomes available on the philatelic market.