2954. 🇸🇭🇬🇸🇸🇭 New Issues From The South Atlantic.

 

New issues - 

🇸🇭 postal service of Ascension Island -

9 September 2026 - 10th anniversary of the Blue Belt Programme - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Designed by Bee Design and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Rating:- *****.

postal service of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands -

9 September 2026 - 10th anniversary of the Blue Belt Programme - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Designed by Bee Design and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Rating:- *****.

6 September 2026 - 20th anniversary of the Pharos SG - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Bee Design and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Rating:- *****.

postal service of Tristan Da Cunha -

9 September 2026 - 10th anniversary of the Blue Belt Programme - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Designed by Bee Design and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Rating:- *****.

31 August 2026 - The Gough Island Meteorological Station (part 1) - 4 stamps. Designed by Bee Design and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Rating:- ****.

The production of all the above issues was coordinated by Creative Direction and thanks to Isle of Man Stamps and Collectables for information about the stamps.

2939. 🇫🇰🇸🇭 New Issues From Falkland Islands And Tristan Da Cunha.

New Issues -

🇫🇰 Postal service of the Falkland Islands -

3 August 2026 Airmail postcard rate stamps (£1,60), the gentoo penguin - 1 self-adhesive stamp sold in a booklet of 10 for £16. Designed by Bee Design from a photograph by Sara Jenner and lithographed by Cartor. Rating:- *****.

🇸🇭 Postal service of Tristan Da Cunha -

4 July 2026 - 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by the rebelling North American colonists - 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different £2.50 stamps. Designed by Andrew Robinson and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5 x14.5. Rating:- ***.

Production of the above 2 issues was co-ordinated by Creative Direction. Thanks to Isle of Man stamps and Coins for information about these issues.

Commonwealth countries which are not known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2026 up until the end of June -

Anguilla

Antigua and Barbuda 

Australia Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Australia Norfolk Island

Australian Antarctic Territory 

Barbados 

Belize

British Antarctic Territory 

British Indian Ocean Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Cameroon

Cook Islands including Rarotonga 

Cook Islands Aitutaki 

Cook Islands Penrhyn 

Dominica 

Gabon 

Grenada 

Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique 

Guyana

Jamaica

Kingdom of eSwatini 

Kiribati 

Lesotho 

Maldives 

Montserrat 

Mozambique 

Nevis

New Zealand Ross Dependency 

Niue

Papua New Guinea 

Pitcairn Islands 

Rwanda

St Helena 

St Kitts/St Kitts Nevis

Saint Lucia 

St Vincent and the Grenadines 

Samoa

Seychelles

Tokelau 

Tonga

Tonga Niuafo’ou 

Trinidad and Tobago 

Turks and Caicos Islands 

Tuvalu 

Uganda 

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Zambia

Therefore, at the end of June, 49 out of 88 (55.7%) of Commonwealth philatelic entities have not issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps in 2026. This compares with 58.2% at the end of May 2026 and 53.4% at the end of June 2025.

2903. 🇳🇿 New Zealand Commemorates Popular Musician.

 

New issues -

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

3 June 2026 - Commemoration of Sir Dave Dobbyn, New Zealand popular musician- 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Designed by Chris Jones of Graphetti and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating:- *.

🇮🇲 🇸🇭🇧🇸 🇫🇰 🇬🇸🇸🇭 Isle Of Man Post Office and others -

21 April 2026 - Birth centenary of the late Queen Elizabeth II - large booklet costing £35 released by the Isle of Man Post Office containing four pages, two of which take the form of self-adhesive panes, the first containing 12 different black and white stamps - 2 each from the postal services of Isle Of Man, Ascension Island, Bahamas, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and Tristan Da Cunha (the stamps of all these countries and territories have been marketed by Isle of Man Stamps since Pobjoy Stamps ceased business) and the second pane containing versions of 12 different previously issued Isle of Man stamps which featured Her Late Majesty (all perforated) and 6 illustrations of the present Isle Of Man stamps depicting the late Queen ‘cancelled’ with gold, small circular ‘postmarks’.

These multi-territory items are my guilty pleasure even though in this particular case the booklet is said to be going to be sold only by the Isle of Man Post Office and not in Bahamas nor the British Overseas Territories. Without checking, I think the first pane features the first ever self-adhesive stamps from several of the territories - Bahamas, Ascension, Tristan Da Cunha and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

2896. 🇮🇲 Isle Of Man And New Multi-territory Sheet Commemorate Queen Elizabeth.

  New issues -

🇮🇲 Isle of Man Post Office -

21 April 2026 - Birth centenary of Queen Elizabeth II (‘fashion legacy of Her Majesty’ - 6 stamps costing £13.48 and 1 pack costing £35 and containing 2 panes, one a sheet of 12 stamps (2 each of stamps from Isle of Man, Ascension Island, Bahamas, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and Tristan Da Cunha) and the other sheet made up of 18 different Isle of Man stamps). Lithographed. Rating:-*****.

New issue programmes.

The philatelic dealer, Spectre of Stamps has reported the following new issue programmes for 2026 -

🇲🇼 Postal service of Kenya -

Birds and butterflies

Diplomatic relations with Russia.

No dates of issue have been reported yet.

🇸🇨 Postal service of Seychelles -

June 2026 - 50th anniversary of independence 

October 2026 - 165th anniversary of the establishment of the Seychelles postal service 

🇧🇲 Postal service of Bermuda -

Remaining issues are -

May 2026 - Perot post office cancellations 

August 2026 - 60th anniversary of the Bermuda Regiment

2881. 🇸🇭🇫🇰🇬🇸🇸🇭 South Atlantic Islands Commemorate Queen Elizabeth II Birth Centenary.

 

New issues -

Birth Centenary of the late Queen Elizabeth II -

🇸🇭🇫🇰🇬🇸🇸🇭 21 April 2016 - Issues from the postal services of Ascension Island, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and Tristan Da Cunha - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps from each of the 4 territories. All designed by Bee Design using photographs taken by Marcus Adams and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13 x 13.5. Production coordinated by Creative Direction. Thanks to Isle of Man Stamps & Coins for information about these issues.Rating:- ****.

🇬🇮 Royal Gibraltar Post Office -

30 March 2026 - Birth centenary of the late Queen Elizabeth II - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 6 stamps. Designed by Stephen Perera and lithographed by Cartor. Rating:- *****.

30 March 2026 - 70th anniversary of the first EUROPA stamps. Designed by Stephen Perera and Klaus Welp from illustrations by Klaus Welp and SK vector and lithographed by Cartor. Rating:- *.