2968. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail’s Final 2026 Issue Will Be ‘Football - Season 1”.

  New Issues -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

1 December - The final issue of 2026 has now been announced to the general public as being on the subject of ‘Football - Season 1”. Further details awaited.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post - 

17 September 2026 - Lingnan craftsmanship, Guangcai (The Canton Famille Rose Porcelain) making technique 4 stamps, 2 miniature sheets each containing a single stamp and 1 mini-pane containing 2 complete sets. Designed by Gideon Lai and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 14 x 13.5. Rating:- ****.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

17 September 2026 - Malaysia Day, Tapestry of Malaysia - 1 sheetlet containing 14 different stamps. Various designers. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

2721. 🇮🇲 Isle Of Man New Issue Features Old Tourism Posters.

 

New Issues - 

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

 

29 May 2025 - Old tourism posters - 6 stamps. Designed by EJC Design and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 11.5. Rating:- *.

 

🇱🇹 Stamperija or affiliate -

🇸🇱 Products inscribed Sierra Leone -

Stated ‘date of issue’ - 15 January 2025 - Further to the report in Blog 2720 of a number of products released on the subject of ‘Biodiversity of Palestine’, a wide range of similar philatelic products were also issued on the subjects of Endangered reptiles, ‘Amazing amphibians’ and World Wildlife Day. As with most recent products inscribed’Sierra Leone’ these are released far in excess of postal need, with an extraordinarily large total cost to collectors and probably will never be sold in Sierra Leone post offices. These are therefore not detailed here and it is doubtful that serious stamp collectors would ever want to buy them although if evidence of genuine postal usage and sale in Sierra Leone post offices came to light then these items would become of much greater interest. As always with the products inscribed with the name of Stamperija client postal services - caveat emptor - you might spend a vast amount of money on products of no value.

Rating:-0.

🇲🇲 Myanmar Post -

5 May 2025 - The Ten Traditional Arts - 1 sheetlet containing the 10 previously issued stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

2500. 🇮🇪 Beautiful Irish Bees Feature On New Issue.

 

New issues -

🇮🇪 An Post - postal service of the Irish Republic -

16 May 2024 - Native Irish bees - 4 self-adhesive stamps printed in sheets of 20 and 1 gummed miniature sheet. Designed by Design HQ from art by Shavorn Doherty and lithographed by Enschedé. Rating:- *****.

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

28 May 2024 - Aviation anniversaries (Centenary of Imperial Airways, Centenary of the Fleet Air Arm, 75th anniversary of the English Electric Canberra; 75th anniversary of the De Haviland.Comet, 75th anniversary of the Avro Shackleton and 60th anniversary of the Red Arrows) - 6 stamps. Designed by Glazier Design and Brian Riddle (the IOM PO website does not use the term “designed by” but instead informs the reader that the stamps “were crafted with meticulous attention to detail” and lithographed by bpost and perforated 11.5. Total face value - £11.39. Rating:- * (for the meticulous crafting!).

🇴🇲 Oman Post -

6 March 2024 - First anniversary of the inauguration of the Royal Academy of Management - 1 stamp issued in sheetlets of 8 and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

1688. 🇦🇺 Upcoming Australia Post Issues.

🇦🇺 In Blog 1697 I mentioned that Australia Post has released another long list of new issues for the upcoming two months. Here are the details:-

14 July 2020 - inscribed Norfolk Island Australia - ‘Ocean oddities’ - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Designed by Jo Muré from illustrations by Dr Lindsay Marshall and lithographed by RA Printing and perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating:- ****.

27 July 2020 - The Australian Alps - 3 gummed stamps, 3 self-adhesive stamps from coils (sold in rolls of 100 of which there are said to have been only 4000 produced (a so-called limited edition) which actually ensures that there are 133333 sets available - that ought to be quite enough to go around) and 1 miniature sheet. Designed by Sharon Rodziewicz and lithographed by RA Printing and perforated 14 x 14.5. Rating;- *.

4 August 2020 - Stamp Collecting Month, Wildlife recovery after 2019 fires - 6 gummed stamps and 1 miniature sheet and 5 self-adhesive stamps from booklets. Designed by Jo Muré and lithographed by EGO and perforated 14 x 14.5. Rating;- ***.

11 August 2020 - Centenary of the Princes Highway - 4 gummed stamps. Designed by Jo Muré and lithographed by EGO and perforated 14. Rating:- ***.

17 August 2020 - Opalised fossils - 4 gummed stamps, 1 miniature sheet and 4 self-adhesive stamps from booklets (booklets of ($11) and 20 ($22). Designed by Simone Sakinofsky and lithographed by RA Printing and perforated 14 x 14.5. Rating:- *.

17 August 2020 - inscribed Christmas Island Australia - Crabs - 4 gummed stamps containing all 4 stamps. Designed by Anita Xhafer, Simone Sakinofsky and Jo Muré and lithographed by RA Printing and perforated 14 x 14.5. Rating:- ***.

  IIt does not seem that there are any new My Stamps packs this time. Perhaps the Coronavirus pandemic has made it difficult to produce such additional items. I doubt that any serious collectors will miss them.