2885. 🇨🇾 Cyprus Commemorates Event Of The Greek War Of Independence.

 

New issues -

🇨🇾 Cyprus Post -

26 March 2026 - 75th anniversary of the Cyprus Red Cross - 1 stamp. Lithographed by Baltic Banknote High Security. Rating:-**.

26 March 2026 - Centenary of the Insurance Association of Cyprus  - 1 stamp. Lithographed by Baltic Banknote High Security. Rating:- **..

26 March 2026 - Bicentenary of the exodus of the free besieged of Messolonghi - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Dimos Morfou. Lithographed by Baltic Banknote High Security. Rating:- *****.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

26 March 2026 - Jathika Namal Uyana - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

New issue programmes-

Spectre of Stamps has published the following new issue programmes for various Commonwealth postal authorities - 

Postal service of Kiribati -

Date not specified - Anniversaries - 250th anniversary of the third voyage of Captain Cook, 250th anniversary of the rebellion in the American colonies, 150th anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone and Birth centenary of the late Queen Elizabeth II.

Postal service of Barbados -

Date not specified -

Rum shops

60th anniversary of Independence 

Connections between Barbados and Carolina

Postal service of St Helena -

Date not specified - New definitive series (endemic invertebrates).

2884. 🇬🇮 Gibraltar £10 Stamp To Commemorate Late Queen Elizabeth II.

 

New issues -

🇬🇮 Royal Gibraltar Post Office -

30 March 2026 - High value definitive, Birth centenary of the late Queen Elizabeth II - 1 x £10 stamp (in addition to the previously reported 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet- see Blog 2881). Designed by Stephen Perera and lithographed by Cartor. Rating:- *.

🇰🇾 Cayman Islands Postal Service -

2 March 2026 - International Women’s Month, Female national heroes - 4 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇮🇳 India Post -

13 February 2026 - Puppets in India (see Blog 2880) - in addition to the previously reported set of 8 stamps, 4 miniature sheets were also issued, each containing 2 different stamps from the set. Rating:- *****.

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

1 April 2026 - Definitives, New Zealand scenery - 5 gummed stamps & 1 self-adhesive stamp from booklets containing 5 x $4.90 values. Designed by New Zealand Post and lithographed by Brebner Prints and perforated 13.5. Rating:- ***.

1 April 2026 - ANZAC traditions - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Designed by Neil Jarvie and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 13.5. Rating:- ***.

2883. 🇸🇬 Singapore Promotes Health.

 

New issues -

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

1 April 2026 - 25th anniversary of the Health Promotion Board - 5 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

7 April 2026 - Commemoration of the late Trevor Hemmings CVO, racing horse trainer - 6 stamps (cost £12.97) 1 Prestige booklet containing 2 panes each of the 6 stamps) (cost ££25.94) and 1 pane of 6 self-adhesive stamps (one of each) costing £12.97. Total cost - £51.88. Designed by Grossick Photography and lithographed by bpost and perforated 11.5. Rating:- *. This issue does not appear to be related to any particular anniversary associated with Trevor Hemmings & its total cost is quite obviously excessive.

2882. 🇬🇭🇳🇬🇸🇱🇬🇲🇹🇬 ECOWAS Multicountry Sheet.

 

New issues -

🇬🇭🇳🇬🇸🇱🇬🇲🇹🇬 The 2026 ECOWAS Omnibus -

12 February 2026 - 50th anniversary of the Economic Community of West African States - claimed to be an omnibus issue with stamps inscribed by the name of each of the 12 member states (see Blog 2872). The Nigerian issue was initially sold on an internet auction site by the respectable specialist seller of Nigerian new issues, CJ Tern, in the form of a single stamp, a first day cover and a sheetlet of 12 stamps, each being a stamp inscribed with the name of a different ECOWAS member. Subsequently, within a day or so, a French dealer, Busch Collectibles, which specialises in the stamps of Francophone African countries, offered for sale the single stamps of each country along with a number of of multicountry sheetlets as were offered by CH Tern, but, like CJ Tern, did not sell sheetlets or multiples of any of the countries which suggested that the single stamps originated from the multicountry sheets rather than sheets for each individual country. 

  At this stage therefore, we might conclude that these products originate from the multicountry sheets which, from the involvement of CJ Tern, are on sale in Nigeria, where the headquarters of ECOWAS is located, but there is no evidence at present that they are on sale in the other 11 countries which have stamps included in the multicountry sheets. This raises questions about the status of the validity of the stamps as postage stamps - it is, after all, preposterous, to call an item a ‘postage stamp’ if you can not buy  them in the country the name of which is inscribed on them. In the future, we will look out for evidence that these stamps are genuinely sold in the respective countries but below I highlight those products with the names of Commonwealth countries which are included in the multicountry sheets -

Ghana Post -

Nigerian Posts & Telecommunications -

La Poste, postal service of Togo -

Postal service of Sierra Leone -

Postal service of The Gambia -

🇮🇳 India Post -

2026 - My Stamp personalised stamps with attached labels sold by India Post in sheetlets of 12 at a premium price -

60th anniversary of Dwaraka Doss Goverdan Doss Vaishnan College, Chennai (Educational institution) - 1 stamp - 

Mumbai Climate Week - 1 stamp -

Kawant Ker Mela (festival held in Chhithaudepaur, Gujarat - 1 stamp - 

Dada Gurudev Shri Jinadutt Suriji, “luminous star of Indian culture and Jainism” - 1 stamp.