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:- ***.

2928. 🇸🇬 Singapore Commemorates Its Disappearing Villages.

 

New issues -

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

19 June 2026 - “Our last kampongs” - 4 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

8 June 2026 - ‘Visit Malaysia 2026, Truly Asia’ campaign - 4 stamps (2 se-tenant pairs) and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

 

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

16 July 2026 - The Royal Guernsey goat kids - 2 x £5 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing both stamps (issue related to the release of the second ‘cyber stamp’ issue). Designed from illustrations by Chris Griffiths and lithographed by Stampfinity. Rating:- 0.

🇨🇶 Guernsey Post -

 🇨🇶 Issues inscribed Sark -

7 July 2026 - Victor Hugo's visits to Sark - 6 stamps. Designed by James Colmer and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13 x 13.5. Remaining illustrations will be added when available. Rating:- *.

2926. 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Celebrates Vesak.

 

New issues -

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

27 May 2026 - State Vesak Festival - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

27 May 2026 - Vesak (Buddhist religious festival) - 3 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 3 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇮🇳 India Post -

11 May 2026 - 75th anniversary of the consecration of the reconstructed Somnath temple in Gujarat - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

May 2026 - My Stamps, personalised stamps with attached labels sold by India Post at a premium price & usually produced in sheetlets of 12,

International Day for Biodiversity - 1 stamp.

45th anniversary of The Art of Living - 

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

31 May 2026 - Parrots of Malaysia -  stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇯🇴 Jordan Post -

2 June 2026 - The Jordan team’s qualification for the FIFA World Cup finals hosted in north America- 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

2899. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail Reveals New Issues For Second Half Of 2026.

 

2026 New issue programmes.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

Royal Mail has now revealed most of the remaining new issues for 2026.

The subjects of two issues have still not been revealed. The Commonwealth Games are to be hosted between 23 July and 2 August and there appears to be no issue to celebrate the Games. This will be the first Commonwealth Games to be hosted in the United Kingdom not to be marked by a Royal Mail stamp issue. This appears to be a remarkably random collection of subjects and there seems to be little of significance to justify the vast amounts of money which doubtlessly will need to be paid by one-of-everything collectors (if there are any such creatures still in existence). Depressing. I’m not really all that interested to know what the unidentified issues are. Ho hum.

New issues -

🇮🇳 India Post -

16 April 2026 - Commemoration of Pandit Chatur Lal, musician - 1 stamp. Rating:-***. 

🇲🇾 9 April 2026 - Treasures of the national visual arts, part 3 - 3 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

2898. 🇯🇪 Jersey To Issue £10 Stamp To To Commemorate Queen Eden Elizabeth II.

 

New issues -

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

21 April 2026 - Birth centenary of Queen Elizabeth II - 1 x £10 stamp printed in lithography by Cartor in sheetlets of 4 stamps. Rating:- *.

🇰🇾 Cayman Islands postal service -

 2 March 2026 - International Women’s Month, Female national heroes of Cayman Islands (as shown in Blog 2884) - in addition to the 4 stamps from sheets, smaller self-adhesive versions of each stamp exist all taken from booklets. These items are shown & offered for sale on the Spectre-of-Stamps internet site on e bay from which the illustrations are obtained. Thanks to Stewie 1980 for drawing my attention to these items. Rating:- *****.

🇧🇲 Bermuda postal service -

19 March 2026 - Bermuda art - 4 stamps. Reported on the Blog previously but better illustrations of the stamps are now displayed here -

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

18 April 2026 - 125th anniversary of the Institute for Medical Research - 2 stamps issued as a se-tenant pair and 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.