2820. 🇨🇦 Canada Remembers The Contribution Of Sikh Soldiers.

 

New issues -

🇮🇳 India Post -

24 October 2025 - 80th anniversary of the United Nations Organisation - 1 stamp. Designed by Shrestha Majumdar.. Rating:- ***.

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post -

27 October 2025 — ‘Black Kashmir Day’, “78 years of oppression”. Lithographed by National Security Printing Company Karachi. Rating-***.

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

3 November 2025 - Remembrance Day, ‘Private Singh’, remembrance of Sikh soldiers - 1 self-adhesive stamp sold in a booklet of 6 costing $7.44. Designed by Larry Burke and Anna Stredulinsky, Burke & Burke, from an illustration by Parm Singh and Dave Peleschak and lithographed by Colour Innovations. Rating:- ****.

2778. 🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Commemorates Military And Aviation Museum.

 

New issues -

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

15 September 2025 - 25th anniversary of the Manx Aviation and Military Museum - 6 stamps (total face value £12.48p). Lithographed. Rating:- *.

15 September 2025 - 85th anniversary of the Battle of Britain - 1 Collectors sheet containing 16 different stamps sold in a special pack for £20. Rating:- 0.

🇧🇩  Bangladesh Post -

23 August 2025 - Mainamatipex 2025 philatelic exhibition - 4 stamps (1 previously issued definitive with overprint and surcharge applied spread over a block of 4 of the stamps). Rating:- **.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

31 August 2025 - The Jersey Witch Trials - in addition to the previously detailed 8 stamps and 1 single stamp miniature sheet (see Blog 2770) an additional miniature sheet containing one each of the stamps will also be issued. Price - £19.30 which makes the total cost of the issue to be £44! Rating:- 0.

Commonwealth countries which are not yet known to have issued or had issued on their behalf any legitimate postage stamps during 2025 -

Anguilla 

Antigua and Barbuda 

Bahamas 

Barbados 

Belize 

British Antarctic Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Cameroon

Cayman Islands 

Cook Islands including Rarotonga 

Cook Islands Aitutaki 

Cook Islands Penrhyn 

Dominica 

Gabon 

Ghana 

Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique 

Guyana

Kingdom of eSwatini 

Lesotho

Mauritius 

Montserrat 

Mozambique 

Nauru 

Nevis

New Zealand Ross Dependency 

Niue 

Papua New Guinea 

Pitcairn Islands 

Rwanda

St Kitts or St Kitts-Nevis

Saint Lucia

Samoa 

Solomon Islands 

South Africa 

The Gambia 

Tokelau 

Tonga 

Tonga Niuafo’ou 

Turks and Caicos Islands 

Tuvalu

Uganda 

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Zambia 

Therefore, at the end of August, 44 out of 88 (50.0%) (one new entity has been added in the form of Bailiwick of Guernsey Sark) of Commonwealth philatelic entities appear to have not issued, or not had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2025. This compares with 54% at the end of July and 41.6% at the end of August 2024.

First issues of 2025 from Bailiwick of Guernsey Sark, Kiribati, Malawi and St Vincent and The Grenadines -

2419. 🇰🇼 Death Of The Emir Of Kuwait.

Sheikh Nawaf

Death of the Emir of Kuwait.

The death of the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, aged 86, has been announced setting off a 40 day period of national mourning in the Gulf state. He ruled Kuwait from 20 September 2020 to 16 December 2023, having succeeded his brother, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber  Al-Sabah who had ruled from 29 January 2006. The Crown Prince, Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber has succeeded Sheikh Nawaf as Emir of Kuwait. All three of these rulers were sons of Sheikh Ahmed Al-Sabah Al-Jaber who ruled Kuwait from 29 March 1921 to 29 January 1951. Sheikh Nawaf, though his reign was short, was greatly loved by his Kuwaiti subjects although his reign was marked by a standoff between the Kuwaiti governments and Kuwait’s Parliament.

Sheikh Mishal

Sheikhs Nawaf and Mishal

New issues.

🇲🇲 Myanmar Post -

13 December - 555th anniversary of Shin Maha Rathasaha, Burmese poet - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

25 January 2024 - Chinese New Year, Year of the Dragon - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet.  This issue was featured in Blog 2412 but the miniature sheet is now depicted here.

🇧🇭 Bahrain Post - 

15 December 2023 - National Day, the treasures of Bahrain - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail - 

10 November 2023 - Post and Go stamps - Remembrance, “Lest we Forget 23” - previously issued’Poppy’ stamps with additional inscription which was applied at various museums including Fleet Air Arm Museum (A003), Royal Navy Museum (A002), Submarine Museum (A004), HMS Trincomalee (A006), the Royal Navy Explosion! Museum (A007), Shakespeare Birthplace Gift shop (A009) and Steam GWR Museum (A010).

🇦🇺 Australia Post -

11 December 2023 - Brisbane Lions, Grand Finalists for the Australian Football League for Women season 2023 - 1 miniature sheet containing 8 Greetings stamps.

2397. 🇨🇦🇬🇧 Canada Commemorates World War 2 Heroine; Postal Museum Says Goodbye To Post And Go.

 

New issues -

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

7 November 2023 - Commemoration of Mona Parsons, Canadian Second World War heroine - 1 self-adhesive stamp sold in a booklet of 10 and 1 gummed miniature sheet containing 5 identical stamps. Designed by Larry Burke and Anna Stredulinksky of Burke and Burke.Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

8 November 2023 - Remembrance - previously issued ‘Poppy’ Post and Go stamps dispensed from kiosks at the National Postal Museum with additional inscriptions. A001 - ‘The Postal Museum/Lest we Forget ‘23’; A013 - ‘Mail Rail/Lest we Forget ‘23’. 

1 - 31 December 2023 - A001 reel 1 to dispense ‘Winter greenery’ 1st Class stamps, A001 reel 3 to dispense 2nd Class Winter Greenery stamps, A013 to dispense Winter Greenery stamps (only until 27 December 2023) and A001 reel 5 to dispense Mail coach stamps.

27 - 31 December  2023 - A001 reel 1 to dispense ‘Anniversary Machins’ with inscription’End of Post & Go at/The Postal Museum, A001 reel 6 to dispense ‘Union Flag’ Post & Go stamps with inscription ‘End of Post & Go at/The Postal Museum’ and A013 reel 3 to dispense 1st Class Machins with inscription’End of Post & Go at/The Postal Museum’.

🇺🇸 Intergovernmental Philatelic Corporation (IGPC) (U.S.A.-based producer and purveyor of philatelic items under contract from various postal administrations) - 

Illustrations of various previously announced issues have now been published - 

See Blog 2359 - 

🇬🇩 Grenada -

10 July 2023 - Coronation of King Charles III, King of Grenada - 2 miniature sheets.

18 November 2023 - Elvis Presley (American entertainers) - 2 miniature sheets - 

🇬🇾 Guyana - 

26 April 2023 - The Hyacinth macaw - 2 miniature sheets -

🇹🇻 Tuvalu -

12 June 2023 - 2 issues - the Golden plover and the Ruddy turnstone - 2 miniature sheets for each issue - 

🇦🇪 Emirates Post (Postal service of the United Arab Emirates) -

26 October 2023 - Commemoration of the Mohammed bin Rashid Library - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 2 stamps and the other a single stamp item. Rating:- ****.

2 November 2023 - 25th anniversary of Sharjah University - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp and an additional AED5 miniature sheet as part of the overall item (!). Rating:- ***.