2675. 🇳🇿 New Zealand To Issue Exhibition Miniature Sheet.

 New Issues -

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

7 March 2025 - Royalpex 2025 National Philatelic Exhibition held in Palmerston North - 1 miniature sheet containing 2 of the previously issued ‘Native Pollinators’ stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- **.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh Post -

19 February 2025 - 7th National Comdeca - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

Unissued stamps.

🇸🇸 Postal service of South Sudan

2024 - South Sudan sporting associations - 1 miniature sheet containing 3 different stamps. This item is currently on sale on an internet auction site. It is being offered by Aures Collections, a name which will be familiar to collectors, particularly of African new issues. This item is described as being intended for issue in 2024 (though it is dated 2023)  and as being “unissued”. It has the inscription ‘SPECIMEN 34’ at the lower right and is being offered for sale at a price of around £199. A single stamp depicting the emblem of the South Sudan Football Association is also being offered for sale for £74.71. These are not issued stamps which need to be included in any collection of South Sudan but it is interesting to see what items are offered for sale especially from this particular source.

2533. 🇳🇿 New Zealand Celebrates National Rugby Team Centenary.

 

New issues -

7 August 2024 - Centenary of The Invincibles’ (New Zealand  rugby team) tour of Great Britain, Ireland, France and Canada - 4 stamps (cost of set NZ$16.40) and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps (cost $16.40). Designed by Hannah Fortune and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 14.5. Rating:- ***.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

20 July 2024 - Installation of HM KeBawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Seri Paduka Baginda Yang Di-Pertuan Agong XVII Sultan Ibrahim - 3 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇸🇸 Postal service of South Sudan -

9 July 2024 - 13th anniversary of Independence - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet (as described in Blog 2527). This issue was originally intended to be released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Independence but circumstances in the country did not allow this to be possible at the time. 

  Thanks to Leo Van der Velden, who is an excellent and highly reliable source of the new issues of Uganda and South Sudan on internet auction sites, all at an excellent price, I have added to my collection a variant of the SSP5000 value of this recently released issue. This features a chimpanzee rather than a turtle with a bar through the value and is a stamp which was not issued, the turtle design being preferred instead. 

  Leo has reported that no further new issues are expected from South Sudan during the course of 2024.