2782.🇲🇾🇵🇳 Malaysia Issue Features Tourism Destinations, Pitcairn Commemorates 19th Century Doctor.

 

New issues -

🇵🇳 Bounty Post (postal service of the Pitcairn Islands) -

? August 2025 - Commemoration of Dr William and Mrs Emily Ancrum who cared for Pitcairn Islands children in Valparaiso in the 19th century - 3 stamps issued in sheets of 30 (2 panes of 5 x 3 in se-tenant strips with gutters in between panes). This issue was reported by BBC Gloucestershire on 18 August 2025 in a short article about the Ancrums’ historian descendant who provided the portraits used in the designs, Mr Michael Richards from Cheltenham. The article includes the comment, “Tower  Mint The stamps had to be approved by the King before being used”.These stamps do not appear on the Tower Stamps internet site nor anywhere else and so may not have been issued yet even though a photograph of Mr Richards shown holding a sheet of the stamps is included in the article. Perhaps there have been delays in the granting of royal approval as with the Guernsey/Sark Liberation anniversary set.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

6 September 2025 - Tourism in Selangor and Kedah - 2 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:-****.

🇲🇲 Myanmar Post -

? August 2025 - Endemic birds of Myanmar - 1 sheetlet containing 9 previously issued stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

2781. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail New Issue Features Ducks.

 

New issues -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

11 September 2025 - Ducks (domestic and wild) - 10 stamps in 2 se-tenant strips of 5 (£12.85) and 1 Collectors sheet containing 10 different stamps with attached labels (£14.05).Designed by Michael O’Shea and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14 x 14.5. Rating:- *. Quite attractive but another pointless set.

One that got away -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

4 September 2025 - 1100th  anniversary of the Coronation of Athelstan, the first King of England who ruled from 924 to 939AD. He united the Kingdoms of Mercia and Wessex, building on the work of his father, Edward The Elder (son of Alfred The Great) and aunt, Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, as well as adding the Viking kingdoms in Northumbria to form a fully United England. He defeated an invasion by a coalition of Scots, Irish Vikings and Strathclyde Britons at the Battle of Brunanburh in 934 and effectively became overlord of the whole of Britain. Though some territory was lost in the north, after Athelstan’s  death, his successors, Edmund I and Eadred, eventually restored the lost territories and established a permanently united Kingdom of England.

Extraordinary, isn’t it? that those who choose the subjects to be featured on Royal Mail stamps decide to issue British stamps depicting Peppa Pig, Batman, Peanuts and a forgettable Antipodean rock music band should choose to ignore a pivotal event and figure in English and British history. Well, given what has happened with British stamp issues in recent years I suppose it isn’t surprising at all. 

It’s hard to think that a figure with similar historical importance as Athelstan has for England would not be commemorated philatelicly by other countries on such an important anniversary. But that’s the state of things at present. 

Regardless, here’s Athelstan as depicted on a playing card from a set depicting English and British monarchs from Alfred The Great to Elizabeth The Great.

2780. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong Commemorates End Of Second World War Anniversary.

 

New issues -

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

3 September 2025 - “80th anniversary of the Victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Facist War” - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Bon Kwan and lithographed by Beijing Stamp Printing House Company Ltd. Perforated 13.5 x 14. Rating:- ***.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post - 

5 September 2025 - Joint issue with Maldives, 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations with Maldives. Designed by Wong Wui Kong (Singapore) and Oni Studio (Maldives) and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 14. Rating:- ****

🇺🇸 Intergovernmental Philatelic Corporation (IGPC) -

Items produced in the name of various postal administrations. All these products are rated 0 -

🇬🇲 Products inscribed The Gambia -

All have a stated date of issue of 30 April 2025 -

Chinese New Year - 2 miniature sheets (1 containing 6 different stamps and the other 2 different stamps), Wild animals of Africa - 2 miniature sheets (1 containing 6 different stamps and the other 2 different stamps) and ‘Whispers of Bloom - 2 miniature sheets (1 containing 6 different stamps and the other containing 2 different stamps)). Lithographed.

🇬🇾 Products inscribed Guyana -

Stated date of issue 1 April 2025 - Chinese New Year, Year of the Snake - 2 miniature sheets (1 containing 6 different stamps and the other 2 different stamps. Lithographed.

2779. 🇻🇨 St Vincent Commemorates 50th Anniversary Of Cricket World Cup Victory.

 

New Issues -

🇻🇨 St Vincent and The Grenadines postal service -  

5 August 2025 - 50th anniversary of the West Indies’ Cricket World Cup victory in 1975 - 9 x EC$50 stamps featuring West Indies cricketing ‘Legends’. Lithographed. Total face value equivalent in pounds is £123.30 per set! Rating:- **.

🇮🇳 India Post -

17 August 2025 - Birth centenary of Laxmidas Borkar, journalist, ‘freedom fighter’ and writer. Rating:- **.

30 August 2025 - Commemoration of Sri Madhavacharya - 1 stamp. Rating:- **.

2778. 🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Commemorates Military And Aviation Museum.

 

New issues -

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

15 September 2025 - 25th anniversary of the Manx Aviation and Military Museum - 6 stamps (total face value £12.48p). Lithographed. Rating:- *.

15 September 2025 - 85th anniversary of the Battle of Britain - 1 Collectors sheet containing 16 different stamps sold in a special pack for £20. Rating:- 0.

🇧🇩  Bangladesh Post -

23 August 2025 - Mainamatipex 2025 philatelic exhibition - 4 stamps (1 previously issued definitive with overprint and surcharge applied spread over a block of 4 of the stamps). Rating:- **.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

31 August 2025 - The Jersey Witch Trials - in addition to the previously detailed 8 stamps and 1 single stamp miniature sheet (see Blog 2770) an additional miniature sheet containing one each of the stamps will also be issued. Price - £19.30 which makes the total cost of the issue to be £44! 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 

Lesotho

Mauritius 

Montserrat 

Mozambique 

Nauru 

Nevis

New Zealand Ross Dependency 

Niue 

Papua New Guinea 

Pitcairn Islands 

Rwanda

St Kitts or St Kitts-Nevis

Saint Lucia

Samoa 

Solomon Islands 

South Africa 

The Gambia 

Tokelau 

Tonga 

Tonga Niuafo’ou 

Turks and Caicos Islands 

Tuvalu

Uganda 

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Zambia 

Therefore, at the end of August, 44 out of 88 (50.0%) (one new entity has been added in the form of Bailiwick of Guernsey Sark) of Commonwealth philatelic entities appear to have not issued, or not had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2025. This compares with 54% at the end of July and 41.6% at the end of August 2024.

First issues of 2025 from Bailiwick of Guernsey Sark, Kiribati, Malawi and St Vincent and The Grenadines -