2945. 🇨🇾 Cyprus New Issue Depicts Old Cars.

 

New issues -

🇨🇾 Cyprus Post -

10 July 2026 - 2 issues both printed by Baltic Banknote High Security Printing -

Euromed, traditional mosaics of the Mediterranean - 1 stamp.(illustrated at the head of this Blog). Rating:- *****.

Old cars - 4 stamps. Rating:- *****.

🇱🇹 Stamperija (exploitative ‘philatelic agency’ based in Lithuania) -

🇹🇬 Products inscribed ‘République Togolaise’ (Togo) -

2026 (no date specified) - Boston 2026 International philatelic exhibition, Trump’s 80th birthday - 2 miniature sheets’, one containing 4 different ‘stamps’ and the other a single ‘stamp’. Rating:- 0.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

11 August 2026 - Tales of St Helier - 8 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 8 stamps. Designed by Becca Thorne, Lithographed. Rating:- *.

🇶🇦 Death of the former Emir of Qatar.

It was announced on 12 July 2026 that the former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani, who had been featured on a number of postage stamps and who had been in longstanding ill health had died. He had ruled Qatar from 27 June 1995 to 25 June 2013 when he abdicated in favour of his son Tamim bin Khalifa al Thani who is the present Emir of Qatar. He had seized power in a coup in 1995 overthrowing his father Khalifa bin Hamad al Thani and during his reign Qatar became the country with the highest per capita income in the world. Qatar was a British Protectorate from 1916 to 1971.

2925. 🇹🇬 ‘Togo’ And Its Latest Philatelic ‘Gems’.

 

New issues -

🇮🇳 India Post -

15 May 2026 - Commemoration of Acharya Dinesh Chandra Joshi, Sanskrit scholar and educationalist - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

🇱🇹🇦🇪 Products released probably by a Stamperija/Aurescollections collaboration - 

🇹🇬 Products inscribed République Togolaise (Togo) -

Stated ‘date of issue’ - 4 May 2026 - Numerous products including previously issued ‘stamps’ reissued with surcharges applied both perforated and imperforate, miniature sheets perforated and imperforate, ‘proofs’, ‘first day covers’ and postcards. Once more I ask myself, does anyone actually buy this stuff? All are rated ‘0’

Surcharges on previous issues -

Truffle hunting dogs - 1 miniature sheet containing 9 stamps , (2 of 4 of the stamps plus a single of the 5th stamp.

Owls - 1 miniature sheet containing 9 stamps (2 x 4 plus one single stamp).

Tortoises - 1 miniature sheet containing 9 stamps (2 x 4 plus a single stamp) -

Frogs - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps -

New designs -

Recognition of the State of Palestine by several countries  - 4 stamps and 4 miniature sheets, imperforate and perforated plus other items 

Wildlife of the rain forest - 15 stamps in perforated and imperforate formats, 5 miniature sheets/ 

Sheetlets plus numerous other products.

Wildlife of the Amazon region (south America) - 10 stamps and 5 miniature sheets all available in perforated and imperforate format plus other products.

50th anniversary of ECOWAS - 1 stamp. It now appears that a version of this stamp has been released in sheet format containing stamps from Togo only rather than the multicountry-national sheet containing the stamps of 12 different philatelic entities.