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Spanish €2.65 Music stamp portraying Frederic Mompou beside a piano🇪🇸 Spain

Correos released a Music-series stamp for Frederic Mompou on 6 October 2026. The €2.65 stamp has a print run of 65,000 and portrays the Barcelona-born composer and pianist. The horizontal design m...

Why it matters

The stamp recognises an influential Catalan composer in Spain’s Music series.

Updated16 Oct'26News date6 Oct'26Event6 Oct'26Country🇪🇸 Spain
Goa Legislative Assembly building in Porvorim, the subject of the silver-jubilee philatelic release🇮🇳 India

A customised My Stamp and a special cover with a special cancellation were released on 6 October 2026 for the silver jubilee of the Goa Legislative Assembly and Secretariat Building. The Lok Sabha ...

Why it matters

The release combines a customised stamp, special cover and cancellation for a state legislative landmark.

Updated16 Oct'26News date6 Oct'26Event6 Oct'26Country🇮🇳 India
Postal item bearing the Tanha Pola Nagpur special cancellation dated 11 September 2026🇮🇳 India

A special cancellation for Tanha Pola was released in Nagpur on 11 September 2026. The illustrated collector report was published on 6 October by MB’s Stamps of India. The postal impression commem...

Why it matters

The marking records a regional children’s festival through a dated postal cancellation.

Updated16 Oct'26News date6 Oct'26Event11 Sep'26Country🇮🇳 India
Philately News🇧🇪 Belgium

The International Postal History Library in Begijnendijk, Belgium, has outlined a project to catalogue and index its book and journal collections for consultation through its website. Newsletter 5,...

Why it matters

A searchable book catalogue and article-level journal index would improve access to postal-history research.

Updated16 Oct'26News date6 Oct'26Country🇧🇪 Belgium
Greek art gallery puts four generations of rural women on stamps🇬🇷 Greece

A new Greek stamp issue turns four paintings from the G. I. Katsigras collection into a miniature exhibition about women of the countryside. The commemorative series for the Municipal Art Gallery o...

Why it matters

The issue sends four works from a regional Greek public collection into the postal network while connecting rural women's lives with the International Year of the Woman Farmer and World Post Day.

Updated9 Oct'26News date6 Oct'26Event9 Oct'26–21 Oct'26Country🇬🇷 Greece
Japan Post issues three Hokusai stamps for International Letter-Writing Week🇯🇵 Japan

Japan Post placed its 2026 International Letter-Writing Week stamps on sale on 6 October, continuing an annual series that Japan has issued since 1958. This year's programme consists of three gumme...

Why it matters

The release continues Japan's annual International Letter-Writing Week series, established in 1958, while linking three Hokusai works to specific international postcard and letter rates.

Updated6 Oct'26News date6 Oct'26Event6 Oct'26–15 Oct'26Country🇯🇵 Japan
USPS schedules fentanyl-awareness semipostal for 6 October release🇺🇸 United States

The United States Postal Service is scheduled to issue its Know the Facts About Fentanyl semipostal stamp on 6 October 2026 at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The st...

Why it matters

The issue adds a new United States semipostal whose surcharge supports National Institute on Drug Abuse research and awareness, with its first-day ceremony deliberately located on the NIH campus in Bethesda.

Updated6 Oct'26News date6 Oct'26Event6 Oct'26Country🇺🇸 United States
Australia Post issues Wilderness Society 50th-anniversary stamps🇦🇺 Australia

Australia Post placed a two-stamp se-tenant issue celebrating 50 years of the Wilderness Society into circulation on 6 October 2026. The two $1.85 stamps revisit the campaign to protect Tasmania's ...

Why it matters

The issue uses a joined pair to connect the Franklin River landscape with the 1983 campaign victory, creating a postal record of the conservation movement's origins rather than a generic anniversary design.

Updated6 Oct'26News date6 Oct'26Event6 Oct'26–1 May'27Country🇦🇺 Australia
Official Route 66 stamp pane artwork; it does not show the Pasadena postmark or ceremony.🇺🇸 United States

The Pasadena Post Office announced a Route 66 pictorial cancellation for the Crafting Memories community event at Pasadena Museum of History on 11 October 2026. Its notice scheduled a local unveili...

Why it matters

The local event added a Pasadena pictorial postmark to the national Route 66 issue.

Updated22 Oct'26News date5 Oct'26Event11 Oct'26Country🇺🇸 United States
Four Tunisian School for All stamps on illustrated first-day covers dated 5 October 2026.🇹🇳 Tunisia

La Poste Tunisienne issued four stamps on 5 October 2026 under the theme “School for all”, focusing on the inclusion of children with special needs and the fight against school bullying. The releas...

Why it matters

Four child-centred designs connect a postal issue with inclusive education and anti-bullying themes.

Updated22 Oct'26News date5 Oct'26Event5 Oct'26Country🇹🇳 Tunisia
Poland marks Krzysztof Skubiszewski’s birth centenary🇵🇱 Poland

Poczta Polska released a B-denominated stamp on 6 October 2026 marking the birth centenary of Professor Krzysztof Skubiszewski (1926–2010). The design uses his photograph. The print run is 96,000 ...

Why it matters

The report identifies a distinct Polish postal issue and its scheduled use date.

Updated20 Oct'26News date5 Oct'26Event6 Oct'26Country🇵🇱 Poland
Jersey’s British Grand Prix centenary souvenir sheetlet.🇯🇪 Channel Islands

Jersey Post released eight stamps on 5 October 2026 marking the centenary of the first official British Grand Prix at Brooklands in 1926. British artist Ben Tallon illustrated the set. The designs...

Why it matters

The eight-stamp issue documents a century of a named motorsport event.

Updated20 Oct'26News date5 Oct'26Event5 Oct'26Country🇯🇪 Channel Islands
Ribbon-cutting at the PATANPEX-2026 opening in Siddhpur🇮🇳 India

North Gujarat Region opened PATANPEX-2026 at Gokul Global University in Siddhpur on 5 October 2026. The first district-level philatelic exhibition in Patan displayed 86 frames and remained open on ...

Why it matters

The exhibition and two commemorative covers create a documented district-level philatelic milestone.

Updated16 Oct'26News date5 Oct'26Event5 Oct'26–6 Oct'26Country🇮🇳 India
Prayag Sangit Samiti centenary special cover with 20 July 2026 cancellation🇮🇳 India

A special cover commemorating the centenary of Prayag Sangit Samiti was released at Prayagraj on 20 July 2026. MB’s Stamps of India published an illustrated account on 5 October. The cover shows t...

Why it matters

An illustrated dated cover documents a collecting item associated with an important Indian music institution.

Updated16 Oct'26News date5 Oct'26Event20 Jul'26Country🇮🇳 India
Cover of FEPA News issue 49, October 2026🌐 International

The Federation of European Philatelic Associations released issue 49 of FEPA News on 5 October 2026. The 120-page October edition is available as a free PDF. Its contents cover federation and memb...

Why it matters

A new freely accessible reference brings European exhibition and research news together in one issue.

Updated16 Oct'26News date5 Oct'26Country🌐 International
Japan Post issues limited Toda City 60th-anniversary Frame Stamp sheet🇯🇵 Japan

Japan Post placed a limited Frame Stamp sheet celebrating the 60th anniversary of Toda City, Saitama Prefecture, on sale on 5 October 2026. The self-adhesive sheet contains ten ¥110 stamps and is p...

Why it matters

The 500-sheet issue creates a scarce, locally distributed postal record of Toda's 60th anniversary, combining ten valid ¥110 Frame Stamps with civic, historical and natural imagery specific to the city.

Updated19 Oct'26News date5 Oct'26Event5 Oct'26–31 Oct'27Country🇯🇵 Japan
Japan Post releases Nishiarai Daishi 1,200th-anniversary Frame Stamp set🇯🇵 Japan

Japan Post began selling a limited Frame Stamp set on 5 October 2026 to mark the 1,200th anniversary of Nishiarai Daishi, the historic Buddhist temple in Tokyo's Adachi ward. The product combines a...

Why it matters

The product gives Nishiarai Daishi's 1,200th anniversary a limited, regionally distributed postal form comprising ten ¥110 stamps and a dedicated presentation mount, with direct relevance to Japanese local-history and Buddhist thematic collections.

Updated19 Oct'26News date5 Oct'26Event5 Oct'26–31 Oct'27Country🇯🇵 Japan
Kyrgyz Express Post issues five-stamp Great Personalities series🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyz Express Post placed a new five-stamp series titled “The Anniversaries of Great Personalities” into circulation on 5 October 2026. The issue brings together the Italian Renaissance painter Ti...

Why it matters

The 5 October release activates a five-subject Kyrgyz postal programme with consistent technical specifications, five separate miniature sheets, matching first-day covers and maximum cards spanning art, literature, opera, animation and jazz.

Updated5 Oct'26News date5 Oct'26Event5 Oct'26Country🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
Folded 1840 letter addressed to Frederick Huth & Co., London, with red AP28 1840 marking and Matanzas correspondence annotations.🇨🇺 Cuba

Denys Yossell has documented a letter from Matanzas to Frederick Huth & Co. in London, connecting its arrival date with the introduction of British adhesive postage stamps. His study, published on ...

Why it matters

An illustrated private-collection letter provides a specific subject for further Cuban maritime postal-history research.

Updated5 Nov'26News date4 Oct'26Country🇨🇺 Cuba
EROPEX 2026 poster advertising 25–26 November at Alayamani Mahal in Erode.🇮🇳 India

EROPEX 2026 is advertised as an Erode district-level philatelic exhibition on 25–26 November 2026. The event poster appears in the October issue of Rainbow Stamp News. The venue is Alayamani Mahal...

Why it matters

The poster establishes the dates and precise venue of an upcoming district exhibition in Erode.

Updated27 Oct'26News date4 Oct'26Event25 Nov'26–26 Nov'26Country🇮🇳 India