2849. 🇲🇲 Myanmar Commemorates 78th National Day.

 

New issues -

🇹🇴 Tonga Post -

3 December 2025 - 80th anniversary of the end of the ‘World Anti-Fascist War’ (Second World War) (see Blog 2846). This issue in the form of a sheetlet with face value of  $9 may be hard to come by judging by the response below from Tonga Post to my request to them for information on how to buy it. Available locally, Tonga Post does not seem to have any arrangements in place for its purchase by overseas collectors. 

Note the email does not mention that it may be purchased from Philatelic Collector Inc, its former agents based in the USA. It might be worth some enterprising dealer in New Zealand or Australia buying an air ticket and dropping in on Nuku’Alofa post office and purchasing as many as they can obtain to sell at a healthy profit.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

5 January 2026 - Chinese New Year, Year of the Horse, joint issue with the postal services of the Chinese People’s Republic and Macao - 1 miniature sheet containing 12 different stamps (4 each from territory). Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇲🇲 Myanmar Post 

4 January 2026 - 78th National Day (78th anniversary of independence) -  2 stamps. Designed by the Ministry of Information and lithographed by Security Printing Works, Myanmar and perforated 14. Rating:- ****.

2737. 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea Airport Issue.

 

New issues -

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

23 July 2025 - Bicentenary of the former St James Church and now cultural centre, SEPAC, Architecture - 4 stamps. Further details awaited. Rating:-**.

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

Uncertain Date - Nadzab Tomodachi International Airport - 4 stamps £ 3 miniature sheets, one containing all 4 stamps, the second containing 2  stamps with attached labels and the third containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇨🇾🇰🇭 Joint issue of Cambodia post service and Cyprus Post -

2025 (see Blog 2727) - The Cambodian part of this joint issue has been released and is being sold by stamp dealers but there is presently no news of the corresponding stamp from Cyprus Post (if indeed there is to be such an issue). - 

2501. 🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Commemorates Tynwald Week.

 

New issues.

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

29 June 2024 - Photographs of Tynwald Week taken by Martin Parr - 8 stamps costing £11.10 and 1 Prestige book containing 4 panes (2 x 8 stamp panes and 2 x 4 stamp panes) sold for £22.20p.  Designed by EJC Design and lithographed by bpost and perforated 11.5. There are several other items including one of the booklet panes being sold singly and an ‘album’ combining the prestige booklet and a set of postcards. Rating:- *.

🇧🇭 Bahrain Post -

15 May 2024 - Arab Summit held at the Sakharov Palace in Bahrain - 1 stamp printed on sheets of 50. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

2485. 🇸🇭 Insects of Ascension.

 

New issues.

🇸🇭 Postal service of Ascension Island.

29 April 2024 - Insects of Ascension - 4 stamps. Designed by Bee Design and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Rating:- *****. Thanks to Maxine Cannon of Isle of Man Post Office for information about this issue.

🇺🇸 Intergovernmental Philatelic Corporation (IGPC), United States-based producers and purveyor of philatelic items with contracts with some Commonwealth philatelic postal services to produce such products in their name - 

🇬🇲 Products inscribed The Gambia -

The items previously listed in Blog 2483 can now be illustrated. Each ‘issue’ is made up!of 2 miniature sheets as described in Blog 2483 -

10 July 2023 - Coronation of King Charles III, Head of The Commonwealth-

22 December 2023 - The Village weaver bird -

22 December 2023 - Manatees in the Gambia River -

22 December 2023 - Flycatchers -

 22 December 2023 - Ducks -

22 December 2023 - 50th anniversary of ‘Ping Pong diplomacy’ -

22 December 2022 - Animals of The Gambia -

22 December 2023 - African leopards -

17 December 2023 - 75th anniversary of the death of Mohandas Gandhi (Indian politician) -

1430. 🇲🇺 Mauritius Post Commemorates Relations With Japan.

🇲🇺 Mauritius Post issued a single stamp on 30 April 2019 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Mauritius and Japan. An interesting design depicts the recently completed radar station at Trou Aux Cerfs which was built in co-operation with the government of Japan which had been planned since 2002 with the need for it being emphasised by fatal flooding in Port Louis in March 2019. Rating:- *****.

🇳🇬 The postal service of Nigeria issued a pair of stamps on 25 April 2019 to commemorate the holding of the African Drum Festival in Ogun State. The two values are N50 and N100 and do not have holograms attached to them. There is no accompanying miniature sheet. Currently there is no illustration available apart from one which depicts part of the stamps so we will have to make do with that for the moment. The parts we can see suggest that the quality of design is no better than we have come to expect from the majority of recent Nigerian stamps. Rating:- **

🇨🇾 Cyprus Post will issue 2 stamps on 2 May 2019 as its contribution to the 2019 Europa omnibus issue the subject of which is ‘National Birds’. The two depicted birds are both birds of prey, a subject which has already been depicted a number of times on stamps of Commonwealth territories in recent months including Royal Mail and the South Pacific philatelic entities which are clients of the agency Philatelic Collector Inc. Rating:- *****.

🇲🇹 MaltaPost has released news of one of the dullest pair of stamps to be offered for sale this year. The issue will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Council Of Europe which is a not particularly significant anniversary and the design stamps adds nothing to the uninteresting subject matter. The stamps were printed in lithography by, I assume, Printex. Rating:- *.