2765. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail Commemorates Monty Python.

 

New issues.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

14 August 2025 - 50th anniversary of Monty Python, BBC television comedy series & film - 6 stamps (3 vertically se-tenant pairs, (cost £10.20p), 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different self-adhesive stamps (Monty Python and The Holy Grail, cost £6.80p), 1 miniature sheet containing the 6 different stamps in self -adhesive format with labels (£11.40p, ‘Collectors sheeet), 1 miniature sheet containing 3 identical self-adhesive  stamps with labels (Monty Python and The Holy Grail ‘fan sheet’, cost £7.50p) and 1 ‘Gold miniature sheet’, cost £149.99p). Designed by Common Curiosity and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5. 

Great designs celebrating British humour as it was 50 years ago but now long lost under the pressure of political correctness and pofacedness and the need to be offended. An excessive issue with grossly unnecessary extra items (yes, I know they’re for the fans) but let’s give the basic set & miniature sheet a full blown ***** in memory of a lost Britain and its zany, rude sense of humour.

🇶🇦 Qatar Post -

15 June 2025 - 80th anniversary of the League of Arab States - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇮🇳 India Post -

My Stamp personalised stamps sold to the public at a premium by India Post. Usually produced in sheetlets of 12 stamps with attached labels.

2025 - Centenary of the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhahbad - 1 stamp with attached label.

2764. 🇸🇭 New Issues From Tristan Da Cunha And Sark.

 

🇸🇭 Postal service of Tristan Da Cunha -

29 August 2025 - Communications in Tristan Da Cunha - 4 stamps. Designed by Andrew Robinson and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Rating:- ****.

15 September 2025 - The paintings of Jimmy Rogers - 4 stamps. Designed by Bee Design and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5 x 13. Rating:- *****. . 

  Thanks to Isle Of Man Stamps and Coins for information about the above issues. Creative Direction was responsible for the coordination of the production of the 2 sets.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

🇨🇶 Products inscribed Sark -

27 August 2025 - 80th anniversary of the liberation of Sark from Nazi German occupation at the end of the Second World War and the Royal visit to Sark by The Princess Royal and Vice Admiral Timothy Laurence. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

Thanks to Stewie 1980 for the information that illustrations of the issue are available to view

2763. 🇲🇾 Roses From Malaysia.

 

New issues -

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia - 

30 July 2025 - Flowers of Malaysia, third issue, Roses - 4 stamps in 2 se-tenant pairs and 1 scented miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed by Henan Post Printing Company, China. Rating:- ****.

🇦🇪 Emirates Post (postal service of United Arab Emirates) -

3 August 2025 - Arab Postal Day, Joint issue with the postal administrations of other Arab states - 1 stamp printed in sheetlets of 6 identical stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

8 August 2025 - National Day, 60th anniversary of Independence - 7 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Sonny Lee and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 14. Rating:- ***.

2762. 🇮🇪 Irish Republic Commemorates 19th Century Politician.

 

New issues -

🇮🇪 An Post (postal service of the Republic of Ireland) -

31 July 2025 - 250th anniversary of the birth of Daniel O’Connell, Irish politician - 2 self-adhesive stamps produced in sheetlets of 8. Designed by Zinc from illustrations by David Rooney and lithographed by Enschedé. Rating:- *****.

🇦🇺 Australia Post -

28 August 2025 - ‘Hello Kitty & Friends’ - 1 pack containing 3 panes and sold for A$37. Panes 1 and 3 each containing 6 different self-adhesive stamps and pane 2 contains a gummed self-adhesive miniature sheet made up of 4 identical Greetings stamps depicting flowers with attached labels and a ‘gutter strip’ of 4 of the same stamps also with attached labels.

What trash. And expensive trash at that.

Rating:- 0.

Commonwealth countries which are not yet known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2025 -

Anguilla

Antigua and Barbuda 

Bahamas 

Barbados 

Belize 

British Antarctic Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Cameroon

Cayman Islands 

Cook Islands including Rarotonga 

Cook Islands Aitutaki

Cook Islands Penrhyn 

Dominica 

Gabon 

Ghana 

Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique 

Guyana 

Kingdom of eSwatini 

Kiribati 

Lesotho 

Malawi 

Mauritius 

Montserrat 

Mozambique 

Nauru 

Nevis

New Zealand Ross Dependency 

Niue

Papua New Guinea 

Pitcairn 

Rwanda 

St Kitts or St Kitts Nevis 

Saint Lucia 

St Vincent and the Grenadines 

Samoa 

Solomon Islands 

South Africa 

The Gambia 

Tokelau 

Tonga

Tongs Niuafo’ou

Turks and Caicos Islands 

Tuvalu 

Uganda 

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Zambia 

Therefore, at the end of July, 47 out of 87 (54%) of Commonwealth philatelic entities appear to have not issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2025. This compares with 55.2 at the end of June 2025 and 48.9% at the end of July 2024.

2761 🇨🇶 Not Content With 16 Issues During 2025 Guernsey Post Now Finds It Necessary To Issue Stamps For Sark.

 

New Issues - 

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post - 

🇨🇶 Products inscribed Sark -

27 August 2025 - Sark during the German occupation and the 80th anniversary of liberation, marked by a royal visit by the Princess Royal and Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence - ?3 stamps. Further details and illustrations awaited.

3 September 2025 - Definitive series, wild flowers of Sark - 15 stamps. Further details awaited. Rating:- 0.

🇦🇪 Emirates Post (postal service of United Arab Emirates) -

30 July 2025 - 20th anniversary of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood - 1 stamp issued in a sheetlet of 4 identical stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.