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,

2925. 🇹🇬 ‘Togo’ And Its Latest Philatelic ‘Gems’.

 

New issues -

🇮🇳 India Post -

15 May 2026 - Commemoration of Acharya Dinesh Chandra Joshi, Sanskrit scholar and educationalist - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

🇱🇹🇦🇪 Products released probably by a Stamperija/Aurescollections collaboration - 

🇹🇬 Products inscribed République Togolaise (Togo) -

Stated ‘date of issue’ - 4 May 2026 - Numerous products including previously issued ‘stamps’ reissued with surcharges applied both perforated and imperforate, miniature sheets perforated and imperforate, ‘proofs’, ‘first day covers’ and postcards. Once more I ask myself, does anyone actually buy this stuff? All are rated ‘0’

Surcharges on previous issues -

Truffle hunting dogs - 1 miniature sheet containing 9 stamps , (2 of 4 of the stamps plus a single of the 5th stamp.

Owls - 1 miniature sheet containing 9 stamps (2 x 4 plus one single stamp).

Tortoises - 1 miniature sheet containing 9 stamps (2 x 4 plus a single stamp) -

Frogs - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps -

New designs -

Recognition of the State of Palestine by several countries  - 4 stamps and 4 miniature sheets, imperforate and perforated plus other items 

Wildlife of the rain forest - 15 stamps in perforated and imperforate formats, 5 miniature sheets/ 

Sheetlets plus numerous other products.

Wildlife of the Amazon region (south America) - 10 stamps and 5 miniature sheets all available in perforated and imperforate format plus other products.

50th anniversary of ECOWAS - 1 stamp. It now appears that a version of this stamp has been released in sheet format containing stamps from Togo only rather than the multicountry-national sheet containing the stamps of 12 different philatelic entities.