New issues -
🇬ðŸ‡ðŸ‡³ðŸ‡¬ðŸ‡¸ðŸ‡±ðŸ‡¬ðŸ‡²ðŸ‡¹ðŸ‡¬ 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.
