2916. 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea New Issues Yet Again.

 

New issues -

I have reported previously in several Blogs on the confused picture of the new issues of Papua New Guinea in recent years. From about 2022 PNG Post released news of ambitious new issue programmes but more often than not the issues were delayed or did not appear at all. I have revisited the previously published 2023, 24 and 25programme lists  to see what PNG Post was hoping to release to try to make sense of it all. Recently some of the issues dating back to what was intended to be released in 2023 have appeared on the market and below I identify the issues I either now have in my collection or which have been offered for sale by respectable new issue dealers. There may be others which have also now been released but which I have not yet become aware of.

🇵🇬 PNG Post (postal service of Papua New Guinea) -

* issued i.e. obtainable by stamp collectors for sure, either in 2024, 25 or even in early 2026.

2023 - 

Laulau fruit trees *

Nadzab Tomadachi International Airport *

Ferns *

Kundu and garamuts *

Meri blouses *

Warshields *

Splashboards *

Coastal lighthouses **

Visit of Pope Francis  - the visit was postponed until 2024 and a set of 4 stamps, 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps and another containing a single stamp were issued after the visit - illustrated here for the first time. Rating:- ***.

Saltwater fish - marlin *

150th anniversary of the UPU - no news.

Birds of the forest floor ** - featured in previous Blog after being reported but not yet offered for sale by Spectre of Stamps

Rock lobsters of PNG *

Grass skirts - no news.

2025 - not seen so far.

Kenu paddles 

20th anniversary of Independence - 

part 1

part 2 

part 3

part 4

part 5 

Fruit trees

Traditional round houses in the Highlands

Christmas 

2725.🇮🇳 India New Issue Features Observatory.

 

New issues -

🇮🇳 India Post -

16 May 2025 - 125th anniversary of Kodaikanal Solar Observatory - 1 stamp. Designed by Sh Brahm Prakash and printed by Security Printing Press Hyderabad. Rating:- ***.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

26 June 2025 - Intangible cultural heritage, paper crafting technique - 4 stamps, 2 miniature sheets both containing a single stamp and a ‘minipane’ (sheetlet of 8 stamps - 2 of each value). Designed by Lee Ying-chi and lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇱🇹 Stamperija -

🇬🇾 Products inscribed Guyana -

2025 - Succession of Pope Leo XIV - 1 sheetlet  containing 12 ‘stamps’ (4 x 3 different designs). This product is offered for sale on the Stamperija internet site but anyone considering spending their money on it should bear in mind that this is an item produced privately by Stamperija on a sheetlet with Guyana personalisable stamps and is unlikely to be recognised by the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) as one of its official products as has happened previously with similar items emanating from Stamperija. Stamperija is not the official philatelic agent for GPOC.As always, with anything emerging from Stamperija, caveat emptor.

2718. 🇫🇰 Falkland Islands To Commemorate Airport Anniversary; Pope Leo XIV Stamps Expected.

New Issues -

28 May 2025 - 40th anniversary of the opening of Mount Pleasant Airport - 4 stamps. Designed by Andrew Robinson and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Production coordinated by Creative Direction. Thanks to Isle Of Man Stamps and Coins for information about these issues. Rating:- ****.

Habemus Papam! Prepare for issues portraying Pope Leo XIV.

  Today, 8 May, after four votes by the Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church at the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City, white smoke poured out of the chimney especially erected there indicating that a new Head of the Church and Bishop of Rome had elected by those cardinals. The newly chosen Pope, Robert Prevost, the first American Pope, was announced as having taken the name Pope Leo XIV.

  As a result we may now expect a whole range of post offices or philatelic agencies to be issuing stamps depicting Pope Leo XIV as well as his predecessor, Pope Francis. It’s hard to believe that Stamperija and New York-based IGPC are not already preparing designs with various country names printed on them in an attempt to cash in on this new papacy. MaltaPost was the first Commonwealth postal service to issue stamps to mourn Pope Francis, will it be the first to commemorate Pope Leo?

Commonwealth stamps depicting the Popes of the 20th and 21st centuries -

The newly chosen Pope Pope makes his first appearance -

2709. 🇲🇹 Malta Commemorates Pope Francis. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

 

New issues -

🇲🇹 MaltaPost -

26 April 2025 - Commemoration of the late Pope Francis, former Head of the Roman Catholic Church - 1 x €1.50 stamp. Designed by MaltaPost and lithographed by Printex and perforated 14. Rating:- *****.

9 May 2024 - EUROPA, Archaeological discoveries - 2 stamps (€1.91 and €2). Further details and illustrations awaited.

🇬🇮 Royal Gibraltar Post Office -

8 May 2025 - EUROPA, Archaeological discoveries - 2 stamps (£1.96 and £3.16) and 1 miniature sheet containing both stamps. Designed by Stephen Perera from artwork by Jonathan Pointer and lithographed by Cartor. Rating:- ***.

🇲🇲 Myanmar Post -

29 April 2025 - ‘Twelve seasonal festivals and flowers’ of Myanmar - 1 sheetlet of 12 different stamps which were issued originally in 2019 but are now combined for the first time as a single unit. Rating:- ****.

🇴🇲 Oman Post -

22 April 2025 - Joint issue with Russia, 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Oman and Russia. It was announced during the State visit of Sultan Haitham bin Tarik to Russia that the two countries’ postal services would release a joint stamp issue to commemorate their friendship. The report in Muscat Daily explains the issue but I have not yet seen an illustration of the stamp itself.