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Historical Quebec $10 Prohibition revenue stamp illustrated by AQEP for André Dufresne’s EXUP-53 presentation.🇨🇦 Canada

André Dufresne is scheduled to speak about Quebec’s prohibition revenue stamps at EXUP-53 in Montreal on 31 October 2026. The Académie québécoise d’études philatéliques lists a 1 p.m. presentation ...

Why it matters

Provides a named scholarly presentation on a specific, short-lived provincial revenue-stamp issue.

Updated1 Nov'26Event31 Oct'26Country🇨🇦 Canada
Cover of Alexandre Fortier’s Les papiers utilisés pour les timbres-poste du Canada, showing Canadian stamps and a Pulp and Paper first-day cover.🇨🇦 Canada

The Académie québécoise d’études philatéliques has announced Alexandre Fortier’s “Les papiers utilisés pour les timbres-poste du Canada” in its Les Dossiers de l’Académie series, with a launch set ...

Why it matters

Introduces a focused French-language reference on identifying the paper characteristics of Canadian stamps.

Updated1 Nov'26Event31 Oct'26Country🇨🇦 Canada
Philately News🇺🇸 United States

The Fourteenth Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposium is scheduled for 10–11 December 2026 at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington, DC, with online participation through Zoom. It...

Why it matters

Provides the substantive research programme and distinct registration arrangements for a hybrid postal-history symposium.

Updated1 Nov'26Event10 Dec'26–11 Dec'26Country🇺🇸 United States
File portrait of Mata Bhagwati Devi Sharma; not the commemorative stamp or the 31 October release ceremony.🇮🇳 India

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla released a commemorative postage stamp honouring Mata Bhagwati Devi Sharma at the Gayatri Parivar centenary celebration in New Delhi on 31 October 2026. The release is re...

Why it matters

Adds official release confirmation for a distinct commemorative stamp, rather than relying only on an earlier planned-issue listing.

Updated1 Nov'26News date31 Oct'26Event31 Oct'26Country🇮🇳 India
Philately News🇮🇳 India

A special cancellation marking World Octopus Day was released at Junagaon on 8 October 2026, according to a report published by MB’s Stamps of India on 31 October. The report identifies the place,...

Why it matters

Documents a distinct marine-themed special cancellation and its stated place and date of use.

Updated1 Nov'26News date31 Oct'26Event8 Oct'26Country🇮🇳 India
File portrait of Amadou Dia Ba at a stadium; not the four stamps or their museum presentation.🇸🇳 Senegal

La Poste presented four stamps honouring El Hadji Amadou Dia Ba at the Museum of Black Civilisations in Dakar on 30 October 2026, the Senegalese Press Agency reported that evening. The series forms...

Why it matters

Identifies the four-stamp athlete tribute and its place within the wider official Dakar youth-Olympics collection.

Updated1 Nov'26News date30 Oct'26Event30 Oct'26Country🇸🇳 Senegal
Participants sign philatelic items at the Russian Navy stamp cancellation ceremony in the State Duma.🇷🇺 Russia

A special-cancellation ceremony for Russia’s Navy stamp took place at the State Duma on 28 October 2026, JSC Marka reported on 30 October. Participants included State Duma first deputy chair Irina...

Why it matters

Separates the October cancellation ceremony from the Navy stamp’s July issue date.

Updated1 Nov'26News date30 Oct'26Event28 Oct'26Country🇷🇺 Russia
Philately News🇷🇺 Russia

Russia issued a 100-ruble stamp on 30 October 2026 marking the birth centenary of Fidel Castro. V. Beltyukov designed the stamp, which places Castro’s portrait against the Cuban flag. JSC Marka ide...

Why it matters

Documents Russia’s official centenary issue, its sheet production and associated first-day services.

Updated1 Nov'26News date30 Oct'26Event30 Oct'26Country🇷🇺 Russia
Philately News🇷🇺 Russia

JSC Marka released four 40-ruble stamps in its Fauna of Russia series on 30 October 2026. Designed by M. Bodrova, the set depicts the emperor dragonfly, the large cross-marked ground beetle, the bl...

Why it matters

Records the four-species design, mixed finishing techniques, sheet layout and stated quantities for a coordinated Russian fauna issue.

Updated1 Nov'26News date30 Oct'26Event30 Oct'26Country🇷🇺 Russia
Official notice that the LabelsBank domain was seized; illustrates the earlier US enforcement action, not the Lahore hearing.🇵🇰 Pakistan

A Lahore judicial magistrate granted a further four days of physical remand for Faheem Akram and a co-suspect in an alleged counterfeit US postage-label case, Daily Times reported on 30 October 202...

Why it matters

Reports a new court step in an alleged cross-border counterfeit-postage operation, distinguishing Pakistani remand proceedings from the US indictment.

Updated1 Nov'26News date30 Oct'26Event30 Oct'26Country🇵🇰 Pakistan
Philately News🇮🇳 India

The Department of Posts released a souvenir sheet containing two commemorative postage stamps on breast cancer awareness at Dak Bhawan, New Delhi, on 30 October 2026. Director General Postal Servic...

Why it matters

The coordinated issue combines a two-stamp souvenir sheet with picture postcards carrying health-awareness content developed with the health ministry.

Updated1 Nov'26News date30 Oct'26Event30 Oct'26Country🇮🇳 India
Used New Zealand4d Lake Taupo stamp showing the lake scene inverted within its orange frame.🇳🇿 New Zealand

Mowbray Collectables reports that the unique 4 d Lake Taupo stamp with inverted centre sold for NZ$263,250 at its 20 September 2025 public auction. The auction house describes the price as a record...

Why it matters

The study brings stamp production, varieties and postal uses together with records of major institutional collections.

Updated1 Nov'26Event20 Sep'25Country🇳🇿 New Zealand
1846 letter addressed to Gilbert Mair in Paihia, bearing the oval RUSSELL postal marking.🇳🇿 New Zealand

Mowbray Collectables described an 1846 letter bearing one of only two known examples of the RUSSELL postmark in its preview of International Stamp Auction 49, held on 19 September 2026. Offered as ...

Why it matters

The study brings stamp production, varieties and postal uses together with records of major institutional collections.

Updated1 Nov'26Event19 Sep'26Country🇳🇿 New Zealand
Mowbrays Auction600 catalogue cover with illustrated lots and printed3November2026 closing date.🇳🇿 New Zealand

Mowbray Collectables’ postal stamp Auction 600 is scheduled to close on 3 November 2026. Its catalogue lists 3,296 lots, beginning with collections and accumulations and extending through New Zeala...

Why it matters

The study brings stamp production, varieties and postal uses together with records of major institutional collections.

Updated1 Nov'26Event3 Nov'26Country🇳🇿 New Zealand
File portrait of Glen Stafford supplied by the Australian Philatelic Federation.🇦🇺 Australia

The Australian Philatelic Federation has announced a new executive committee following its September annual general meeting. Glen Stafford of Western Australia is president for 2026–27, with Daryll...

Why it matters

The study brings stamp production, varieties and postal uses together with records of major institutional collections.

Updated1 Nov'26Country🇦🇺 Australia
Cover of Fiji Postage Stamp Issues of the King George VI Period, illustrated with Fiji stamps.🇫🇯 Fiji

Fiji Postage Stamp Issues of the King George VI Period, by Ross F. Duberal and Bryan A. Jones, examines the country’s pictorial definitives alongside commemoratives, postage dues, specimens, bookle...

Why it matters

The study brings stamp production, varieties and postal uses together with records of major institutional collections.

Updated30 Oct'26Country🇫🇯 Fiji
IBRA 2028 exhibition poster stating 26–29 October 2028 in Ulm.🇩🇪 Germany

The IBRA 2028 organising website sets the world stamp exhibition for 26–29 October 2028 at Messe Ulm in Germany. It presents the event as a full FIP world exhibition covering all competitive classe...

Why it matters

The organiser’s programme establishes the dates, venue and planned scale of a future world exhibition.

Updated30 Oct'26Event26 Oct'28–29 Oct'28Country🇩🇪 Germany
Philately News🇧🇷 Brazil

Correios launched a stamp and commemorative postmark for two hundred years of diplomatic relations between Brazil and Sweden on 29 October 2026. The ceremony took place at the official Swedish resi...

Why it matters

Confirms the launch, designer and sales channels for a distinct Brazilian diplomatic-anniversary issue and associated postmark.

Updated1 Nov'26News date29 Oct'26Event29 Oct'26Country🇧🇷 Brazil
Participants holding framed postal items at the Maritime Glory card cancellation ceremony reported on 29 October 2026.🇷🇺 Russia

A stamped card featuring the winning entry in Russia’s Maritime Glory children’s drawing competition was cancelled during a live Children’s Radio broadcast on 28 October 2026. JSC Marka reported th...

Why it matters

The report links the winning child’s artwork to a specific stamped card with a stated 750-copy printing.

Updated30 Oct'26News date29 Oct'26Event28 Oct'26Country🇷🇺 Russia
Russia’s 100-ruble Boris Jacobi commemorative stamp, dated 2026.🇷🇺 Russia

JSC Marka issued a 100-ruble stamp on 29 October 2026 for the 225th birth anniversary of physicist and inventor Boris Semyonovich Jacobi (1801–1874). The design combines his portrait with a telegra...

Why it matters

The official release identifies the design, printing quantity, sheet structure and communications history behind the new stamp.

Updated30 Oct'26News date29 Oct'26Event29 Oct'26Country🇷🇺 Russia