2907. 🇲🇹 Malta’s Europa Stamp.

 

🇲🇹 MaltaPost -

9 May 2026 - EUROPA, 70th anniversary of Europa stamps - 1 stamp and 1 booklet containing 5 identical stamps. Designed by Klaus Welp and lithographed by Printex and perforated 14. Rating:- **. A horrible, tedious and incomprehensible design brings Europa stamps to an all time low - at least MaltaPost is only issuing a single stamp on this occasion.

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

7 May 2026 - 250th anniversary of the rebellion of Britain’s North American colonies - 6 stamps. Designed by Glazier Design and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 11.5. The stamps depict Manx people involved in the conflict. Rating:- ****.

🇲🇺 Mauritius Post -

2026 - Freshwater flora (reprint with 2026 imprint) - 1 stamp.Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

2026 - Seashells of Mauritius (reprint with 2026 imprint) - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

2026 - Reprinted definitive, extinct species of birds with 2026 imprint in lower border (previously issued with 2024 imprint) - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

  The above illustrations of the Mauritius stamps are taken from the internet auction site of Spectre of Stamps which are offering them for sale.

2832. 🇧🇸 Bahamas Christmas Stamps.

 

New issues - 

🇧🇸 Bahamas postal service -

20 November 2025 - Christmas, ‘Little angels’. Lithographed. This issue is featured on the website of the stamps dealer Spectre Stamps. Rating:- *** (resistibly cute).

27 November 2025 - 40th anniversary of Bushy’s Brewery - 1 sheetlet of 8 identical stamps and 8 non-postally valid labels sold in a pack costing £27.50 which also contains a sheet of ‘stickers’ and 8 reproduction beer mats. Limited to an edition of 1000. Rating:- 0.

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

3 December 2025 - Avatar Fire and Ash - 1 sheetlet containing 6 different stamps. Designed by Nick Jarvie and printed digitally by Collectables, Whanganui and perforated 14.5. Rating:- *.

2423. 🇬🇬🇯🇪 Channel Islands Busy Start To 2024 (No Surprise There Then).

 

New issues.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

4 January 2024 - Chinese New Year, Year of the Dragon - 1 stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Wang Huming and lithographed. Rating:- 0.

8 January 2024 - EUROPA, ‘Underwater fauna and Flora’ - 8 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different stamps. Designed from photography by Nicola Miskin and lithographed by bpost. Rating:- *.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post - 

14 February 2024 - Post and Go stamps, the Arms of Guernsey - previously reported in Blog but all 6 stamps now illustrated. 

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

5 January 2024 - Lunar new year, Year of the Dragon - see Blog 2387

15 February 2024 - Anti-corruption in Hong Kong - see Blog 2387

14 March 2024 - Characters in Jin Yong’s novels II - 6 stamps, 3 single-stamp miniature sheets and 1 ‘mini-pane’ containing two of each stamp. Lithographed with additional hot foil stamping and 3D embossing on $20 miniature sheet by Cartor. Rating:- ***.

2136. 🇵🇰 Pakistan Commemorates 75th Anniversary Of Independence.

 

New issues.

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post -

14 August 2022 - 75th of the achievement of Independence - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Rating:- *****.

🇶🇦  Qatar Post -

2022 (date of issue not yet known) - 25th anniversary of Qatar Airlines - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps.Rating:- *****.

🇯🇪  Jersey Post -

6 September 2022 - Jèrriais, The Jersey language - 6 stamps and 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing a single stamp and the other containing all 6 stamps). Designed by Ron Mills and lithographed bpost. Rating:- **.

551. Malaysia Commemorates The Penny Black.

  Pos Malaysia will issue a miniature sheet on 30 April 2015 to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the Penny Black and Twopenny Blue, the world's first postage stamps which were issued on 6 May 1840. As well as the depiction of the 2 stamps, the design also includes a picture of Rowland Hill who was born in Kidderminster in the English West Midlands on 3 December 1795 and who introduced the reform of the postal service which included the introduction of adhesive postage stamps as a means of indicating prepayment of postage. 

  New Zealand Post will issue a set of 5 stamps and 1 miniature sheet on 5 May 2015 on the subject of native seashells. The issue was designed by Stamps And Collectables New Zealand Post and lithographed by Southern Colour Print:-

  Canada Post issued a set of 5 self-adhesive stamps issued in booklets of 10 and 1 gummed miniature sheet containing all 5 stamps on 13 April 2015 on the subject of Dinosaurs. In a format similar to the dinosaur stamps issued by Royal Mail in 2013, these stamps have the depicted dinosaur bursting out from the edges of the stamp so that the stamps are irregularly shaped:-

 Belize issued a modest pair of stamps on 8 April 2015 to commemorate the centenary of the Salvation Army in Belize:-