2948. 🇨🇦 Canada Commemorates Centenary Of The Royal Canadian Legion.

 

New Issues -

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

17 July 2026 - Centenary of the Royal Canadian Legion - 1 self-adhesive stamp sold in booklets of 6. Designed by Blair Thomson from a photograph by Jo Thomson, both of Believe In and lithographed by Colour Innovations. Rating:-*****.

🇲🇼 Malawi Post  -

?2025 - provisional definitive, K1320 on K105 - previously issued definitive stamp reissued with surcharge applied in black. I have not been aware of this value up to now - the stamp is currently being sold by Bombay Stamps from its internet site and is described as”rare”. Rating:- *****.

?2026 - provisional definitive, surcharge in red - 2 stamps. Previously issued butterfly stamps reissued with surcharges applied - K300 on K2 and K440 on K65. Other surcharges in red are reported in Blog 2942. These 2 previously unreported stamps are being auctioned on an internet site. Rating:- ****.

🇮🇳 India Post -

17 July 2026 - Agriculture and horticulture and wildlife of Aranchal Pradesh - 2 miniature sheets each containing 6 different stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇧🇼 Botswana Post -

27 November 2026 - ‘Threads of life - the Mophane story of Botswana’ 4 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:-*****. A first day cover of this issue, previously unreported, is shown on the Spectre Stamps blog internet site but further information is awaited.

2942. 🇲🇼 More Malawi Surcharges.

 

New issues -

🇲🇼 Malawi Post -

2026 - Provisional issue, surcharges in RED on previously issued stamps (surcharges on the same stamps in black were reported in Blog ). Rating:- ***.

The following issues are reported by Spectre-of-Stamps on its internet site -

🇲🇺 Mauritius Post -

15 June 2026 - Stamp from previous ‘Indigenous flowers’ set reprinted with ‘2026’ imprint. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇰🇮 Postal service of Kiribati -

17 October 2026 - 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook’s third voyage - 4 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇧🇿 postal service of Belize -

17 July 2026 - Definitive issue, various subjects - 11 values. Further details awaited. Rating:- *****.

2933. 🇬🇮 Second Set Of Dogs From Gibraltar..

 

New issues -

🇬🇮 Royal Gibraltar Post Office -

30 June 2026 - Breeds of dogs - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a further 6 different stamps. Designed by Stephen Perera and photographs by Envato and lithographed by Cartor. Rating:- **.

🇲🇹 MaltaPost -

20 June 2026 - Maltese architecture - 4 stamps. Designed from photographs by Maria Christina Bugeja and Mariah Grech and lithographed by Printex and perforated 14.

🇦🇺 Australia Post -

16 June 2026 - “One million refugees welcomed to Australia since the Second World War”, 75th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention - 1 self-adhesive stamp sold in a ‘sheetlet’ of 5 identical stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- **.

Thanks to Anonymous for drawing my attention to this issue.

🇲🇼 Malawi Post -

?2026 - Surcharges on previously issued miniature sheets commemorating the late Diana Princess of Wales (see Blog 2917) - 3 miniature sheets each containing 4 different stamps with surcharges applied. A reader of this blog asked whether these were machine-printed surcharges or applied by hand. Now I have a set I can confirm that the surcharges are clearly applied by hand,

2917. 🇲🇼 Malawi’s Latest Surcharges Are 30 Year Old Diana Stamps.

 

New issues.

🇲🇼 Malawi postal service -

.2025 or 2026 - Surcharges - 3 values surcharged on 4 stamps (total 12) contained in the Princess of Wales memorial miniature sheets of 1997. Rating:- ****.

These items are presently being offered for sale by Bombay Stamps.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh Post -

17 May 2026 - World Telecommunication and Information Technology Day - 1 stamp. Designed by Sanjiv Kanti Das and lithographed by Security Printing Corporation (Bangladesh) Ltd Gazipur and perforated 12.5. Rating:- **.

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

8 July 2025 - 4 stamps and 2 miniature sheets (one containing 4 different stamps and the other a single stamp). Lithographed. Rating:- ***. These stamps are depicted in the Spectre-of-Stamps dealers internet blog.