2946. 🇹🇷 Northern Cyprus Features Handicrafts Motifs.

 

New issues -

🇯🇴 Postal service of  Jordan -

13 July 2026 - EUROMED, Traditional mosaics of the Mediterranean - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 3 different stamps and the other a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇦🇺 Australia Post -

7 July 2026 - Personalised My Stamp, Scott Pendlebury’s 433 record-breaking VFL/AFL Game  1 stamp available cancelled only on a ‘Medallion cover’ costing A$45. Rating:- 0.

13 July 2026 - ‘Paralympic of the Year’, Ben Tudhope - 1 stamp sold in sheetlets of 10 costing $17. Rating:- **.

🇹🇷 postal service of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus -

8 July 2026 - Traditional motifs of local handicrafts - 4 stamps. Designed by Saziye Aladag, Hasan Saydam, Raul Ersadal and Berhice Sőnmes Brian and printed by Devlet Basimevi. Rating:- *****.

🇧🇿 postal service of Belize -

17 July 2026 - Definitives - 11 stamps. These stamps are now featured on the Spectre Stamps internet site and are likely to be offered for sale by that dealer from the date of issue. Lithographed. Further details awaited. Rating:- *****.

2945. 🇨🇾 Cyprus New Issue Depicts Old Cars.

 

New issues -

🇨🇾 Cyprus Post -

10 July 2026 - 2 issues both printed by Baltic Banknote High Security Printing -

Euromed, traditional mosaics of the Mediterranean - 1 stamp.(illustrated at the head of this Blog). Rating:- *****.

Old cars - 4 stamps. Rating:- *****.

🇱🇹 Stamperija (exploitative ‘philatelic agency’ based in Lithuania) -

🇹🇬 Products inscribed ‘République Togolaise’ (Togo) -

2026 (no date specified) - Boston 2026 International philatelic exhibition, Trump’s 80th birthday - 2 miniature sheets’, one containing 4 different ‘stamps’ and the other a single ‘stamp’. Rating:- 0.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

11 August 2026 - Tales of St Helier - 8 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 8 stamps. Designed by Becca Thorne, Lithographed. Rating:- *.

🇶🇦 Death of the former Emir of Qatar.

It was announced on 12 July 2026 that the former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani, who had been featured on a number of postage stamps and who had been in longstanding ill health had died. He had ruled Qatar from 27 June 1995 to 25 June 2013 when he abdicated in favour of his son Tamim bin Khalifa al Thani who is the present Emir of Qatar. He had seized power in a coup in 1995 overthrowing his father Khalifa bin Hamad al Thani and during his reign Qatar became the country with the highest per capita income in the world. Qatar was a British Protectorate from 1916 to 1971.