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Russia’s 48-ruble Financial Security Olympiad stamp with the Fini raccoon mascot.🇷🇺 Russia
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Russia issues Financial Security Olympiad stamp with Fini mascot

AO Marka issued a 48-ruble stamp for the sixth International Financial Security Olympiad on 27 September 2026. The design features the raccoon mascot Fini. The olympiad took place in Krasnoyarsk fr...

Why it matters

The issue provides a dated commemorative stamp and first-day service for a named international competition.

Updated20 Oct'26News date27 Sep'26Event27 Sep'26Country🇷🇺 Russia
Timbres Passion 2026 exhibition poster.🇫🇷 France
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Timbres Passion brings youth and thematic competitions to Hyères

Timbres Passion 2026 is scheduled for 23–25 October at the Forum du Casino, 5 avenue Ambroise-Thomas, Hyères-les-Palmiers. The programme combines the French youth philately championship with adult ...

Why it matters

The programme brings several competitive collecting classes together with youth activities.

Updated20 Oct'26News date27 Sep'26Event23 Oct'26–25 Oct'26Country🇫🇷 France
Saudi Post issues six-stamp National Day sheet and commemorative postcard🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
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Saudi Post issues six-stamp National Day sheet and commemorative postcard

Saudi Post | SPL has issued a new commemorative stamp sheet and postcard for Saudi National Day, presenting the 2026 celebration through six designs centred on national identity, cultural heritage ...

Why it matters

The official release adds a six-design Saudi National Day sheet and matching postcard, combining postal use with a coordinated record of the Kingdom’s cultural identity and 2026 national celebration.

Updated28 Sep'26News date27 Sep'26Event27 Sep'26Country🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
DvanajstoOkno Kranj exhibition artwork.🇸🇮 Slovenia
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Jörg Maier heads DvanajstoOkno Kranj exhibition results

DvanajstoOkno Kranj concluded on 12 September 2026 with 32 exhibits from seven countries. Germany’s Jörg Maier received the top award for “Chile – Die Postkartenprovisorien 1871/72”, scoring 91 poi...

Why it matters

The published palmares identifies the leading exhibit and makes the competitive results available.

Updated20 Oct'26News date26 Sep'26Event12 Sep'26Country🇸🇮 Slovenia
First-day cover and three Historic Romanian Railway Stations stamps, cancelled Bucharest 25 September 2026.🇷🇴 Romania
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Romania’s Historic Railway Stations set pairs architecture with steam trains and tickets

Romfilatelia and Poșta Română introduced Historic Romanian Railway Stations on 25 September 2026. The issue comprises three stamps and a first-day cover, combining station architecture with steam l...

Why it matters

The coordinated set documents three historic station buildings and complements them with a Bucharest first-day-cover subject.

Updated30 Oct'26News date25 Sep'26Event25 Sep'26Country🇷🇴 Romania
A commemorative cover and cancellation device for the 51st anniversary of Paracas National Reserve.🇵🇪 Peru
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Serpost presents Paracas Reserve anniversary cancellation

Serpost presented a commemorative cancellation for the 51st anniversary of Paracas National Reserve on 25 September 2026. Reserve representative Cussui Koyur Segura Cuellar and Ica postal administr...

Why it matters

The cancellation marks the protected area’s anniversary and identifies the postal office offering it.

Updated24 Oct'26News date25 Sep'26Event25 Sep'26Country🇵🇪 Peru
Block of eight five-cent Lincoln stamps with Schermack Type III perforations.🇺🇸 United States
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Ryterband auction brought vending-machine perforations and modern errors together

Siegel’s 1 October 2026 Ryterband sale offered 355 lots in two specialized collections: vending and affixing machine perforations, followed by modern errors. Linn’s reported a block of eight 1908 f...

Why it matters

The collection documented rare multiples of private machine perforations alongside specialized modern errors.

Updated22 Oct'26News date25 Sep'26Event1 Oct'26Country🇺🇸 United States
Robert Hautman’s winning painting of two long-tailed ducks flying above water.🇺🇸 United States
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Robert Hautman’s long-tailed ducks win the 2026 Federal Duck Stamp art contest

Robert Hautman of Delano, Minnesota, won the 2026 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest with an acrylic painting of a pair of long-tailed ducks. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the result on ...

Why it matters

The competition selects the artwork for the next federal conservation stamp, distinct from ordinary postage.

Updated22 Oct'26News date25 Sep'26Country🇺🇸 United States
USPS issues five Linda McCartney photography stamps at Museum of Modern Art🇺🇸 United States
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USPS issues five Linda McCartney photography stamps at Museum of Modern Art

The U.S. Postal Service issued five Linda McCartney Forever stamps in New York City on 25 September 2026, with a first-day dedication at the Museum of Modern Art. The pane presents five photographs...

Why it matters

The five-design pane places Linda McCartney's own photography into nationwide postal use and documents the issue with a Museum of Modern Art first-day setting, complete creative credits and detailed production specifications.

Updated26 Sep'26News date25 Sep'26Event25 Sep'26Country🇺🇸 United States
Swiss Post special-cancellation artwork inscribed19–21November2026,3900Brig.🇨🇭 Switzerland
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Swiss Post sets Brig stamp-day sheet and PhilaBrig26 cancellation programme

Swiss Post’s stamp-day miniature sheet for Brig becomes valid on 5 November 2026. Designed by Sybille Eyer, it draws on the Stockalper Palace, Simplon transport connections and the town’s Sebastian...

Why it matters

Swiss Post sets Brig stamp-day sheet and PhilaBrig26 cancellation programme

Updated5 Nov'26News date24 Sep'26Event19 Nov'26–21 Nov'26Country🇨🇭 Switzerland
CTT Hades €9.99 crypto stamp promotional image with mythology designs from partner administrations.🇵🇹 Portugal
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Portugal’s €9.99 Hades crypto stamp joins mythology collaboration

CTT announced its second Portuguese Crypto Stamp on 24 September 2026. The €9.99 issue depicts Hades, the Greek god of the underworld, accompanied by black horses. It combines a physical stamp with...

Why it matters

CTT announced its second Portuguese Crypto Stamp on 24 September 2026.

Updated5 Nov'26News date24 Sep'26Event24 Sep'26Country🇵🇹 Portugal
Centenary philatelic sheet on an official first-day cover cancelled 22 September 2026.🇺🇾 Uruguay
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Uruguay launches sheet for its philatelic club’s centenary

Correo Uruguayo launched a commemorative philatelic sheet for the centenary of the Club Filatélico del Uruguay at the Palacio de Correos in Montevideo. The launch programme was announced for 22 Sep...

Why it matters

The issue commemorates a century of the club’s work and its connection with Uruguay’s annual philatelic programme.

Updated24 Oct'26News date24 Sep'26Event22 Sep'26Country🇺🇾 Uruguay
Attendees stand in the hall during the Trujillo congress inauguration.🇵🇪 Peru
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Trujillo association documents its third northern Peruvian congress

The Asociación Numismática y Filatélica de Trujillo published photographs of the inauguration of the third Northern Peruvian Numismatic and Philatelic Congress on 24 September 2026. Separate galler...

Why it matters

The organiser’s galleries provide a dated record of the inauguration and both programme days.

Updated24 Oct'26News date24 Sep'26Event24 Sep'26–26 Sep'26Country🇵🇪 Peru
Three-cent 1869 locomotive stamp bearing Waterbury’s Rose Blossom fancy cancellation.🇺🇸 United States
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Kardasis Part II focused on used 1869 Pictorial stamps and distinctive cancellations

The second part of Nick Kardasis’ United States 1869 Pictorial collection was offered by Siegel on 30 September 2026. The reported highlights included a three-cent locomotive stamp with Waterbury’s...

Why it matters

The collection paired cancellation studies with a highly graded nineteenth-century reissue.

Updated22 Oct'26News date24 Sep'26Event30 Sep'26Country🇺🇸 United States
File portraits of Charles F. Shreve, left, and Tracy L. Carey.🇺🇸 United States
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Heritage launches a stamp department led by Charles Shreve and Tracy Carey

Heritage Auctions announced a new stamps category on 24 September 2026, appointing Charles F. Shreve as Vice President, Stamps, and Tracy L. Carey as Consignment Director. The Dallas auction house ...

Why it matters

A major auction house is establishing a dedicated philatelic department and planning its first sale.

Updated22 Oct'26News date24 Sep'26Country🇺🇸 United States
Swiss JUNIOR magazine 75th-anniversary stamp featuring the dog Klexx🇨🇭 Switzerland
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Swiss Post marks 75 years of JUNIOR magazine with Klexx stamp

Swiss Post has announced a stamp celebrating the 75th anniversary of children’s magazine JUNIOR. The design shows Klexx, the dog belonging to the magazine’s central character, carrying anniversary ...

Why it matters

The issue recognises a long-running children’s publication through a new illustrated stamp.

Updated16 Oct'26News date24 Sep'26Event5 Nov'26Country🇨🇭 Switzerland
Four Swiss 2026 Christmas stamps showing a market, mail, gifts and family dinner🇨🇭 Switzerland
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Swiss Christmas stamps follow a family through four festive moments

Swiss Post’s 2026 Christmas stamps depict a family visiting a Christmas market, preparing gifts, posting Christmas mail and sharing Christmas dinner. Lemady Rochard designed the four self-adhesive ...

Why it matters

The coordinated seasonal issue includes new stamps and a dated Christmas-mail cancellation opportunity.

Updated16 Oct'26News date24 Sep'26Event5 Nov'26Country🇨🇭 Switzerland
Two Swiss Pro Juventute 2026 stamps depicting children supported and exploring🇨🇭 Switzerland
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Pro Juventute stamps portray children gaining confidence and exploring

Swiss Post’s Pro Juventute 2026 stamps follow the theme “Growing up is fun”. Illustrator Rahel Winiger depicts a child supported by her parents’ hands and children setting out together in a paper b...

Why it matters

The annual benefit issue combines new designs with support for children and young people.

Updated16 Oct'26News date24 Sep'26Event5 Nov'26Country🇨🇭 Switzerland
Swiss Heidi Bucher centenary stamp showing Fliegender Hautraum🇨🇭 Switzerland
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Swiss Post honours Heidi Bucher with centenary stamp

Swiss Post has announced a stamp for the centenary of artist Heidi Bucher. The design reproduces “Fliegender Hautraum”, made in 1981 using the artist’s technique of applying latex and textiles to a...

Why it matters

The issue brings a major Swiss artist’s distinctive architectural work into the stamp programme.

Updated16 Oct'26News date24 Sep'26Event5 Nov'26Country🇨🇭 Switzerland
Swiss and Liechtenstein philatelic products illustrated for PhilaBrig26🇨🇭 Switzerland
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PhilaBrig26 combines national exhibition with Stamp Day miniature sheet

PhilaBrig26 will take place on 19–21 November 2026 in the Simplonhalle in Brig. Swiss Post will operate a sales stand and cancellation service, and miniature-sheet designer Sybille Eyer is schedule...

Why it matters

The exhibition links a national competition with a new miniature sheet and specific cancellation opportunities.

Updated16 Oct'26News date24 Sep'26Event19 Nov'26–21 Nov'26Country🇨🇭 Switzerland
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