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🇵🇹 Portugal

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Portugal’s first amphibian stamp issue pairs philately with biodiversity research and citizen science

A new Portuguese philatelic issue announced on 11 September 2026 will bring amphibians onto the country’s postage stamps for the first time in the 57-year period since CTT began systematically depi...

Why it matters

The issue introduces amphibians to modern Portuguese philately for the first time while linking stamp collecting with documented biodiversity research, recycled production materials and citizen-science participation.

Updated12 Sep'26News date11 Sep'26Event18 Sep'26Country🇵🇹 Portugal

Participants at UAEU’s Golden Jubilee stamp launch in the university library, with a framed stamp display.

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

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United Arab Emirates University launches Golden Jubilee stamps

United Arab Emirates University launched commemorative stamps for its Golden Jubilee in cooperation with Emirates Post. The university’s 10 September 2026 announcement describes a ceremony at its l...

Why it matters

The issue records the university’s fiftieth anniversary through selected institutional milestones.

Updated22 Oct'26News date10 Sep'26Country🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

Collective miniature sheet with golden-eagle and falcon-hunting stamps and two central bird labels.

🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan

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Kyrgyz Express Post marks 30 years of UAE relations with hunting-bird stamps

Kyrgyz Express Post issued two stamps on 14 September 2026 for the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Kyrgyzstan and the United Arab Emirates. A 150-som design depicts golden-eagle hu...

Why it matters

The issue uses the two countries’ hunting-bird traditions in a coordinated anniversary sheet.

Updated20 Oct'26News date10 Sep'26Event14 Sep'26Country🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan

🇵🇱 Poland

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Poczta Polska marks 500 years since Mazovia joined the Kingdom of Poland

Poczta Polska issued a commemorative stamp on 10 September 2026 marking the 500th anniversary of Mazovia’s incorporation into the Kingdom of Poland. Prepared with the Marshal’s Office of the Mazovi...

Why it matters

The issue combines a precisely documented historical anniversary with map and seal imagery, stated technical specifications and a 96,000 print run.

Updated18 Sep'26News date10 Sep'26Event10 Sep'26Country🇵🇱 Poland

🇨🇦 Canada

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Canada Post celebrates quilt-making with two historic Royal Ontario Museum quilts

Canada Post issued two quilt-themed stamps on 10 September 2026 celebrating quilt-making as both a practical craft and a record of personal and collective history. The stamp designs reproduce two w...

Why it matters

The issue documents identifiable historic Canadian quilts from a major museum collection and carries different textile works across the stamps, booklet and first-day cover.

Updated18 Sep'26News date10 Sep'26Event10 Sep'26Country🇨🇦 Canada

🇿🇦 South Africa

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South African Post Office launches 'Love the Post-box' World Post Day stamp issue

The South African Post Office has launched a new stamp issue titled “World Post Day: Love the Post-box”, celebrating the red posting box as a symbol of handwritten communication and South African p...

Why it matters

The issue documents South African postal infrastructure through a modern World Post Day release, including a stamp referencing the country's oldest pillar post-box still in use.

Updated11 Sep'26News date10 Sep'26Event9 Sep'26Country🇿🇦 South Africa

Royal Mail unveils 12-stamp Duran Duran issue spanning album artwork and four landmark tours

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Royal Mail unveils 12-stamp Duran Duran issue spanning album artwork and four landmark tours

Royal Mail and Duran Duran unveiled a new Special Stamps issue on 10 September 2026 celebrating the British band's visual and musical career. The programme consists of eight First Class stamps base...

Why it matters

The issue adds a substantial new Royal Mail music-themed programme with 12 stamps, a miniature-sheet production first and detailed technical specifications for collectors.

Updated11 Sep'26News date10 Sep'26Event17 Sep'26Country🇬🇧 United Kingdom

🇮🇲 Isle of Man

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Isle of Man issues six-stamp Manx National Treasures archaeological collection

The Isle of Man Post Office announced the Manx National Treasures collection on 9 September 2026 and released it the following day in partnership with Manx National Heritage. Six stamps draw on sig...

Why it matters

A technically documented six-stamp archaeological issue links Manx postal history directly with museum objects, including material loaned back from the British Museum.

Updated18 Sep'26News date9 Sep'26Event10 Sep'26Country🇮🇲 Isle of Man

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka

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Philatelic Association of Sri Lanka releases new reference study on 'stamp-on-stamp' issues

A new specialist philatelic reference devoted to Sri Lanka’s “stamp-on-stamp” issues was released on 9 September 2026 through Philately.lk, the online portal associated with the Philatelic Associat...

Why it matters

The newly released free reference consolidates ten Sri Lankan stamp-on-stamp subjects into one specialist study, linking later commemoratives with the earlier Ceylon and Sri Lanka stamps reproduced in their designs.

Updated19 Oct'26News date9 Sep'26Country🇱🇰 Sri Lanka

Poczta Polska issues Local Content stamp promoting Polish industrial capability

🇵🇱 Poland

New IssueOfficial source

Poczta Polska issues Local Content stamp promoting Polish industrial capability

Poczta Polska placed “Local Content. Value for Poland” into circulation on 8 September 2026, a commemorative issue developed with the Ministry of State Assets. The stamp carries the Local Content l...

Why it matters

The issue documents a contemporary Polish economic initiative through a six-stamp sheet with three industry-specific labels and a stated print run.

Updated18 Sep'26News date8 Sep'26Event8 Sep'26Country🇵🇱 Poland

USPS formally issues and dedicates U.S. Coast Guard Academy 150th-anniversary stamp

🇺🇸 United States

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USPS formally issues and dedicates U.S. Coast Guard Academy 150th-anniversary stamp

The U.S. Postal Service formally issued and dedicated its U.S. Coast Guard Academy 150th-anniversary stamp in New London, Connecticut, on 12 September 2026. The ceremony at Custom House Pier conver...

Why it matters

The stamp has now actually entered issue and been formally dedicated, adding a substantive event to the previously reported design and photographer story.

Updated13 Sep'26News date8 Sep'26Event12 Sep'26Country🇺🇸 United States

Slovak Post opens Bratislava exhibition pairing postage stamps with original stamp artwork

🇸🇰 Slovakia

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Slovak Post opens Bratislava exhibition pairing postage stamps with original stamp artwork

Slovak Post opened a new philatelic exhibition titled “Personalities on Postage Stamps” in Bratislava on 7 September 2026. The exhibition is being staged at the Gallery of Postage Stamps on SNP Squ...

Why it matters

The exhibition gives collectors direct access not only to issued Slovak stamps and FDCs but also to original stamp artwork, making the design-to-production process part of the public display.

Updated8 Sep'26News date7 Sep'26Event7 Sep'26–3 Dec'26Country🇸🇰 Slovakia

🇳🇱 Netherlands

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PostNL launches the Netherlands’ first postage stamp made from real Delft Blue ceramic

PostNL unveiled a new ceramic postage stamp on 7 September 2026 in collaboration with Royal Delft, presenting what the postal operator describes as the first postage stamp in Dutch postal history m...

Why it matters

The issue is a significant material innovation in modern philately: PostNL identifies it as the first Dutch postage stamp made from real ceramic, created with Royal Delft and sold as valid domestic postage.

Updated8 Sep'26News date7 Sep'26Event7 Sep'26Country🇳🇱 Netherlands

Philately News🇿🇦 South Africa

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Perfin Society replaces two South African catalogue parts

The Perfin Society’s update notice dated 6 September 2026 records revised versions of the first two parts of Jeff Turnbull’s South African perfin catalogue. Part 1 covers the four provinces before...

Why it matters

The revisions concern two distinct periods of South African punched-stamp identification.

Updated23 Oct'26News date6 Sep'26Country🇿🇦 South Africa

🇲🇨 Monaco

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Monaco Christmas stamp depicts the Adoration of the Magi

Monaco’s stamp office scheduled its €1.52 Christmas stamp for sale on 5 November 2026. The illustration by Van Zyl depicts the Adoration of the Magi. Mary bends toward the infant Jesus while the vi...

Why it matters

The issue records Monaco’s 2026 Christmas design and its depiction of the Magi.

Updated6 Nov'26News date4 Sep'26Event5 Nov'26Country🇲🇨 Monaco

🇲🇨 Monaco

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Monaco commemorates a century of the International Philatelic Federation

Monaco scheduled a €2.25 stamp for 5 November 2026 to mark the centenary of the Fédération Internationale de Philatélie. Founded in 1926, the federation brings national collectors’ federations toge...

Why it matters

The design marks the federation responsible for standards used in international philatelic exhibitions.

Updated6 Nov'26News date4 Sep'26Event5 Nov'26Country🇲🇨 Monaco

🇲🇨 Monaco

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Monaco marks the 50th issue of Annales monégasques

Monaco’s stamp office scheduled a €1.52 stamp for 5 November 2026 marking the 50th issue of Annales monégasques, the historical journal of the Prince’s Palace Archives. The journal began in 1977 an...

Why it matters

The stamp reproduces the historical journal’s cover and records the 50th issue.

Updated6 Nov'26News date4 Sep'26Event5 Nov'26Country🇲🇨 Monaco

Vice President’s Chennai programme confirms commemorative stamp release for Dinamalar’s 75th year

🇮🇳 India

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Vice President’s Chennai programme confirms commemorative stamp release for Dinamalar’s 75th year

An official Government of India programme issued on 4 September 2026 confirms that a commemorative postage stamp release function will be held in Chennai on 5 September to mark the 75th year of pub...

Why it matters

The official programme confirms a new India Post commemorative release tied to Dinamalar’s 75th anniversary, creating an upcoming institutional and media-history issue of interest to Indian collectors.

Updated5 Sep'26News date4 Sep'26Event5 Sep'26Country🇮🇳 India

Philately News🇮🇳 India

New Issue

India Post releases Uttam Kumar birth-centenary commemorative stamp in Kolkata

India Post released a commemorative postage stamp in honour of Bengali screen legend Uttam Kumar on 4 September 2026, as part of the actor’s birth-centenary celebrations in Kolkata. The release too...

Why it matters

The release adds a new India Post commemorative for one of Bengali cinema’s most important cultural figures and creates a fresh thematic item for collectors of Indian cinema, personalities and West Bengal philately.

Updated5 Sep'26News date4 Sep'26Event4 Sep'26Country🇮🇳 India

An Post launches Dromcollogher centenary stamp remembering 48 cinema-fire victims

🇮🇪 Ireland

New Issue

An Post launches Dromcollogher centenary stamp remembering 48 cinema-fire victims

A new Irish commemorative stamp marking the centenary of the Dromcollogher cinema disaster was launched on 3 September 2026, two days before the 100th anniversary of the fire that killed 48 people ...

Why it matters

The issue adds a new Irish memorial commemorative with a First Day Cover and special cancellation, tied to a major centenary remembrance in County Limerick.

Updated5 Sep'26News date3 Sep'26Event3 Sep'26Country🇮🇪 Ireland

Latest News

Portugal’s first amphibian stamp issue pairs philately with biodiversity research and citizen science

United Arab Emirates University launches Golden Jubilee stamps

Kyrgyz Express Post marks 30 years of UAE relations with hunting-bird stamps

Poczta Polska marks 500 years since Mazovia joined the Kingdom of Poland

Canada Post celebrates quilt-making with two historic Royal Ontario Museum quilts

South African Post Office launches 'Love the Post-box' World Post Day stamp issue

Royal Mail unveils 12-stamp Duran Duran issue spanning album artwork and four landmark tours

Isle of Man issues six-stamp Manx National Treasures archaeological collection

Philatelic Association of Sri Lanka releases new reference study on 'stamp-on-stamp' issues

Poczta Polska issues Local Content stamp promoting Polish industrial capability

USPS formally issues and dedicates U.S. Coast Guard Academy 150th-anniversary stamp

Slovak Post opens Bratislava exhibition pairing postage stamps with original stamp artwork

PostNL launches the Netherlands’ first postage stamp made from real Delft Blue ceramic

Perfin Society replaces two South African catalogue parts

Monaco Christmas stamp depicts the Adoration of the Magi

Monaco commemorates a century of the International Philatelic Federation

Monaco marks the 50th issue of Annales monégasques

Vice President’s Chennai programme confirms commemorative stamp release for Dinamalar’s 75th year

India Post releases Uttam Kumar birth-centenary commemorative stamp in Kolkata

An Post launches Dromcollogher centenary stamp remembering 48 cinema-fire victims

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