2766. 🇹🇴 Tonga Volcano Stamps.

 

New issues -

🇹🇴 Tonga postal service -

2024 (date not known) - 1st anniversary of the eruption of the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano - 6 self-adhesive stamps. Lithographed. No other details presently available. Rating:- *****.

  There is no fresh news of any recent issues inscribed Niuafo’ou or of any products inscribed with name of any of the Cook Islands philatelic entities.

🇮🇳 India Post -

2 August 2025 - Commemoration of Purshottamdas H Purohit, ‘Freedom fighter’ - 1 stamp. 

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

8 August 2025 - 60th anniversary of Singapore’s independence - 1 pack costing $36 containing a sheetlet of 30 My Stamp personalised stamps (5 x 6 different designs) with attached labels. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

8 August 2025 - 60th anniversary of Singapore’s independence - 1 machine-dispensed label. Rating:- ****.

2272. 🇨🇰🇹🇴 Cook Islands And Tonga Commemorate Queen Elizabeth II.

 

New issues.

🇨🇰 Cook Islands postal service -

16 January 2023 - Commemoration of the late Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of the Cook Islands - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block. Rating:- ***.

13 February 2023 - 4 stamps in se-tenant blocks of 4. Rating:- ***.

20 February 2023 - Stop plastic ocean pollution - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block of 4. Rating:- ***.

6 March 2023 - Cook Islands national symbols - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Rating:-  ***.

20 March 2023 - Churches of the Cook Islands - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block. Rating:- ***.

🇨🇰 Issues inscribed Aitutaki Cook Islands -

10 February 2023 - The Giant Clam - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp.Rating:- *.

🇹🇴 Tonga postal service -

26 January 2023 - Commemoration of the late Queen Elizabeth II - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block. Rating:- ***.

23 February 2023 - Birds of the world, the red shining parrot - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block, 1 miniature sheet containing 2 sets of 4 and 4 ‘deluxe’ miniature sheets each containing a single stamp. Rating:- *.

15 March 2023 - The James Webb Telescope - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block. Rating:- *.

🇹🇴 Issues inscribed Niuafo’ou -

23 February 2023 - Birds of the world, the collared kingfisher - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block, 1 miniature sheet containing 2 sets of 4 and 4 ‘deluxe’ miniature sheets each containing a single stamp. Rating:- *.

🇮🇳 India Post -

16 March 2023 - International Year of Millets  - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

19 March 2023 - Commemoration of Pashuram (‘warrior sage’ of Jaipur) - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

🇳🇦 Namibia Post -

2022 - 75th anniversary of the Independence of India - 1 miniature sheet containing 5 different imperforate personalised stamps sold by Namibia Post. This is in addition to a similar perforated miniature sheet reported in Blog 2130. Rating:- ****.

🇸🇱 Sierra Leone postal service -

2022 - Masonic District Grand Lodge of Sierra Leone and The Gambia - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 identical stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ***. It seems possible that this item is not a product emanating from the philatelic agency’ Stamperija.

🇧🇲 Bermuda Post Office -

16 March 2023 - Express Post, King Charles III - 1 stamp issued in sheetlets of 8. This issue has been reported here previously but better illustrations are now shown here. 

🇴🇲 Oman Post -

March 2023 - The ancient Omani alphabet - 1 miniature sheet containing 11 different stamps. Rating:- ****.

2157. 🇺🇸 Oops! Quick Change. Philatelic Collector Corrects Overprint Error.

 

New issues.

🇺🇸 Philatelic Collector Inc.

🇨🇰 🇹🇴 Products inscribed Cook Islands, Aitutaki Cook Islands, Penrhyn Cook Islands, Kingdom Of Tonga and Niuafo’ou.

2022 - Tribute to the Late Queen Elizabeth II - 1 miniature sheet each containing 6 different stamps for each of the 5 philatelic entities. The illustrations of these issues on the Philatelic Collector Inc internet site have now been changed to correct the previously shown items which had the overprint ‘In Living Memory 1926 - 1922’ so that they now read ‘In Loving Memory 1926 - 2022’. (See Blog 2156). It’s interesting to note that the overprints are now lower case rather than upper case - the new inscriptions look rather less dignified and a little scruffy - signs of a rushed job I suppose.

  I expect we shall have to wait to see if any of the incorrectly inscribed overprints were actually printed and turn up on the market. I do hope not.