2686. 🇬🇧🇵🇬 Royal Mail Myths And Legends; Papua New Guinea Freshwater Fish Issue. 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇦🇨🇦

 

New issues -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

27 March 2025 - British myths and legends - 8 stamps (2 se-tenant strips of 4 x1st Class stamps). Poor quality illustrations (to be replaced when better quality illustrations become available. Designs depict legends from various parts of the United Kingdom including Beowulf and Grendel (an early piece of Anglo-Saxon literature), Black Shuck (a postman’s nightmare) and the Loch Ness Monster (a Tourism officer’s dream). Further details to be added. As with all issues so far this year  this item is not related to any event or notable anniversary but I suppose it is fun and, in line with Royal Mail’s new policy, devoid of the more expensive Overseas mail rates.

🇵🇬 PNG Post (Postal service of Papua New Guinea) -

Originally stated to have been issued in November 2022 - Freshwater fish - 4 stamps and 2 miniature sheets, one containing all 4 stamps and the other a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

2685. 🇳🇿 New Zealand Post Commemorates Pasifika Festival. 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇦

 

New issues -

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

2 April 2025 - Pasifika Festival, Auckland (festival of Polynesian culture). Designed by Nick Jarvis and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 14 x 14.5. Issued in individual sheets for each value and in sheets containing se-tenant blocks of 4 as well as one miniature sheet contains a se-tenant block of 4. Rating:- ***.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

5 January 2025 - Chinese New Year, Year of the Snake, Joint issue with postal services of the People’s Republic of China and Macao - 1 miniature sheet containing the sets of all 3 territories, sold in a special pack which also contains a joint first day cover of the 3 territories’ stamps. Rating:- ***.

2684. 🇬🇧 🇬🇬 New Royal Mail Definitives and Guernsey Europa.

 

New issues.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail - 

27 March 2025 - New definitives necessitated by revised international postal rates - 3 stamps (total face value £11). Printed in gravure by Cartor and perforated 15 x 14.5. Rating:- *****.

🇬🇬 Guernsey 

Post -

1 May 2025 - National archaeological discoveries, EUROPA (£1.37 and £1.47 values) - 6 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- **.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

24 April 2025 - Hong Kong Museum Collection, Fuyun Yuan collection of snuff bottles - 6 stamps, 2 miniature sheets and 1 ‘mini-pane’ containing 2 of each stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

2682. 🇮🇳 Fruit From Bihar. 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇦

 

New issues -

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

10 March 2025 - Aidilfitri, Moslem religious festival, se tempe personalised stamps. Sheetlet of 10 stamps (2 each of 5 different stamps) sold at a premium. Lithographed. 

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post -

10 March 2025 - 25th anniversary of NADRA (National Database and Registration Authority) - 1 stamp. Design “supplied by the customer” and lithographed by National Security Printing Company Karachi. Rating:- **.

🇮🇳 India Post -

11 March 2025 - Fruits of Bihar - 5 stamps. Rating:- ***.

2683.. 🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ IGPC Reveals Designs Of Latest Products. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

 

New Issues -

🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ Intergovernmental Philatelic Corporation (IGPC - USA-based producer and marketer of philately-related products under contract from various postal authorities. These issues were previously listed in Blog 2667 but are now relisted with appropriate illustrations. All are rated:- 0.

🇦🇬 Products inscribed Antigua and Barbuda -

Five “issues” all stated to have been released on 12 December 2024 -

Reelection of Donald Trump as US President - 2 miniature sheets

Shanghai Expo, the Great Wall of China - 2 miniature sheets

Insects - 2 miniature sheets 

Coral reefs - 2 miniature sheets 

Caribbean region snakes - 2 miniature sheets 

🇬🇭 Products inscribed Ghana -

Two “issues” stated to have been released on 12 December 2024 -

Reelection of Trump - 2 miniature sheets 

Planets of the Solar System - 2 miniature sheets 

🇹🇻 Products inscribed Tuvalu -

Five “issues” stated to have been released on 18 December 2024.

Chinese New Year, Year of the Dragon - 2 miniature sheets 

Traditional Chinese attire - 2 miniature sheets 

‘Love and Hope’ - 2 miniature sheets 

‘Life under the sea’ - 2 miniature sheets 

75th anniversary of the assassination of Mohandas Gandhi, Indian politician - 2 miniature sheets.