New issues -
🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -
30 July 2026 - ‘Biodiversity’ part 2 - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Designed by Abdelkrim Asrar and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14 x 14.5. Rating:- *.
Glasgow on stamps -
Back in 2022 when Birmingham hosted the Commonwealth Games I included in one of the blogs, a survey of all the Royal Mail stamps featuring that city and it seems therefore only fair that I do the same now that Glasgow is once more hosting the Games. In truth there are not really too many stamps to mention.
A set of four stamps was issued on 6 March 1990 as part of the annual EUROPA omnibus series. Two stamps from the set commemorated Glasgow’s year of being the European City of Culture. Two buildings were featured - the Glasgow School of Art and the Templeton Carpet Factory. The glorious Mackintosh building in the School of Art was subsequently badly damaged by fire in and then destroyed by another fire in June 2018.
The 14th World Orchid Conference was hosted in Glasgow in April 1993 at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in the city and a set of 5 stamps was issued on 16 March 1993 to commemorate the event although the stamps featured only orchids and made no reference to Glasgow on them.
The Glasgow Corporation Tramways Service got a mention on the cover of a £1.30 definitive stamp booklet issued as part of a series on British trams and released on 15 January 1985.
A Glasgow tram was also featured on one of the 4 stamps issued on 10 May 1988 on the subject of transport and communications which was the theme of the that year’s EUROPA issue.
The Armadillo Scottish Exhibition Centre in Glasgow was depicted on one of the ten stamps issued in 2017 which depicted modern ‘landmark’ buildings.
The annual conferences of the political party, the Scottish National Party, were commemorated by the release of Post and Go stamps both in 2016 and 2017 with 2nd and 1st type colours being
Finally we have the set of 6 stamps issued on 7 July 2014 to commemorate the city’s first hosting of the Commonwealth Games wbich concentrated on depicting some of the sports rather than Glasgow itself -
Commonwealth Countries which are not known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2016 until the end of July -
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Australia Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Australia Norfolk Island
Australian Antarctic Territory
Barbados
British Antarctic Territory
British Indian Ocean Territory
British Virgin Islands
Cameroon
Cook Islands including Rarotonga
Cook Islands Aitutaki
Cook Islands Penrhyn
Dominica
Gabon
Grenada
Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique
Guyana
Jamaica
Kingdom of eSwatini
Lesotho
Maldives
Montserrat
Mozambique
Nevis
New Zealand Ross Dependency
Niue
Papua New Guinea
Pitcairn Islands
Rwanda
St Helena
St Kitts/St Kitts Nevis
Saint Lucia
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
Seychelles
Tokelau
Tonga
Tonga Niuafo’ou
Trinidad and Tobago
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Uganda
United Republic of Tanzania
Vanuatu
Zambia
Therefore at the end of July, 46 out of 88 (52.3%) Commonwealth philatelic entities have not issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2026. This compares with 55.7% at the end of June 2026 and 54% at the end of July 2025.
