New issues -
🇳🇬 Nigeria postal service -
12 February 2026 - 50th anniversary of ECOWAS (joint issue with the postal services of other ECOWAS member states) - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.
The stamp is also included in a multi-national sheetlet of 12 different stamps - one each from the 12 member states - Commonwealth countries - Togo, The Gambia, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Nigeria - plus Benin, Côte D’Ivoire, Guinea, Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Liberia and the Cape Verde Islands. The specialist dealer of Nigerian stamps, C J Tern, is currently offering this interesting items on his internet site for a little over £50.
🇼🇸 Samoa Post -
2025, possibly August - Previously issued stamp with $3.00 surcharge applied in black. This illustration is taken from Zirinsky Stamps internet site where it has been featured recently. Rating:- ****5.
🇮🇳 India Post -
16 February 2026 - Centenary of Ol Chiki script by Pandit Raghunath Murmu - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.
🇲🇼 Malawi Post -
?2025 - Another surcharge on the previously issued Butterfly definitives (K960 on K60) which I have overlooked. Thanks to Anonymous for drawing my attention to this stamp.
🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -
🇨🇶 Products inscribed Sark -
1 April 2026 - ‘An Artist’s View of Sark’ - Art by Louise Hill and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 14. Cost of set - £16.38. An attractive set but far too expensive, Rating:- *.
Malawi 2025 Surcharges - 17 in my collection.
ReplyDelete1. Butterfly K300/K2 - K440/K65 & PATTEC K800/K105
2. Xmas 2010 K1000/K65 - K1150/K65 - K1280/K65 & K2000/K65
3. Butterfly. K815/K65 - K900/K65 - K1150/K65 & K1280/K65
4. Butterfly. K960/K65 & K1000/K65
5. Butterfly. K770/K65 - K1240/K65 - K1320/K65 & K1840/K105
Hope this helps with other collectors of Malawi Surcharges.
Together with the 3 stamps of the first issue I also have a K10/K65.
DeleteMore Information on previous Malawi surcharges 2018 releases.
Delete5 stamps - Birds/Butterfly with Red surcharges.
Type 1: Birds K600/8t - K600/20t - K900/40t & Butterfly K900/K65 - K1280/K1. All surcharges are on bottom Right of stamps.
Type 2: K600/8t - K600/20t & K900/K65 come with surcharge in upper Right & K1280/K1 surcharge comes in upper Left side of stamp.
Hope you find this interesting & helpful.
Thank you.
DeleteThe K10/K65 Butterfly was released in 2023.
DeleteI don’t want to doubt the validity of the Samoan overprint but has it been seen postally used?
ReplyDeleteWK replying - One sees so very few modern stamps from virtually everywhere postally used that it is not surprising that, to the best of my knowledge, no-one has reported this stamp postally used. I haven’t seen any of the Malawi surcharges reported postally used either.I can only say an unused example of the Samoa surcharges has been on offer on a respectable dealer’s internet shop site.
DeleteHere you can see a few of them postally used:
Deletehttps://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=108434
WK replying - Thank you. I had not seen that. The Stampboards posts certainly confirm the stamp in unused & postally used state. Very interesting.
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