2885. 🇨🇾 Cyprus Commemorates Event Of The Greek War Of Independence.

 

New issues -

🇨🇾 Cyprus Post -

26 March 2026 - 75th anniversary of the Cyprus Red Cross - 1 stamp. Lithographed by Baltic Banknote High Security. Rating:-**.

26 March 2026 - Centenary of the Insurance Association of Cyprus  - 1 stamp. Lithographed by Baltic Banknote High Security. Rating:- **..

26 March 2026 - Bicentenary of the exodus of the free besieged of Messolonghi - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Dimos Morfou. Lithographed by Baltic Banknote High Security. Rating:- *****.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

26 March 2026 - Jathika Namal Uyana - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

New issue programmes-

Spectre of Stamps has published the following new issue programmes for various Commonwealth postal authorities - 

Postal service of Kiribati -

Date not specified - Anniversaries - 250th anniversary of the third voyage of Captain Cook, 250th anniversary of the rebellion in the American colonies, 150th anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone and Birth centenary of the late Queen Elizabeth II.

Postal service of Barbados -

Date not specified -

Rum shops

60th anniversary of Independence 

Connections between Barbados and Carolina

Postal service of St Helena -

Date not specified - New definitive series (endemic invertebrates).

2744. 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Features National Park In New Issue.

 

New issues -

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post - 

26 June 2025 - Minneriya National Park - 10 stamps and 10 miniature sheets each containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

June 2025 - 85th anniversary of the evacuation of the island ahead of the occupation by Nazi German troops, Post and Go - ‘Jersey Flag’ stamp with additional inscription ‘85 Yrs Evacuation’ dispensed by machines JE03 (Postal HQ) and JE02 (Broad Street PO). Sold in strips with 6 different denominations.

2309. 🇳🇿 New New Zealand Definitives.

 

New issues.

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

7 June 2023 - Definitives, Landscapes - 4 gummed stamps and 2 self-adhesive stamps issued in booklets of 5 stamps. Designed by NZ Post and lithographed by Brebner Print. Perforated 13.5 (gummed stamps). Rating:- ****.

🇮🇳 India Post -

22 May 2023 - 250th anniversary of the birth of Raja Ram Mohan Roy, scholar and reformer.He served as the Mughal Emperor’s ambassador to King William IV in England and died and is buried in Bristol - 1 stamp. Rating:- ****.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

Tweets reporting Post and Go issues with one day added inscriptions noting visiting cruise ships -

 

22May 2023 - Visit of the Princess Royal.

24 May 2023 - Visit of the Renaissance - 

1803. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail Commemorates 70 Years Of National Parks.

 

🇬🇧 As mentioned in Blog 1802 Royal Mail’s first stamp issue of 2021 will be on the subject of British national parks commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Peak District National Park which was the first of its kind in Great Britain. This is a set of beautiful photographs on 10 x 1st Class rate stamps sold in 2 se-tenant strips of 5. The issue, due for release on 14 January 2021,was designed by Studio Mean and lithographed by International Security Printers and perforated 14 x 14.5. These are beautiful stamps. Rating:- *****.

🇮🇳 For those who can still be excited about the release of yet another stamp issue on the subject of COVID-19, India Post released a miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps on 24 December 2020. Rating:- ****.