2872. 🇳🇬 Nigeria Commemorates The 50th anniversary of ECOWAS.

 

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:- *.

2844. 🇬🇧🇬🇬 Royal Mail And Guernsey Stamp New Issue Programmes.

 

New issue programmes for 2026.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post 

The full new issue programme for stamps inscribed Guernsey, Alderney and Sark has now been published by Guernsey Post. I hope those who feel they must have a complete collection of 2026 stamp issues from this business also have deep pockets.

Thanks to Anonymous for drawing my attention to the newly posted RM programme,

2813. 🇬🇧🇫🇰🇬🇸 More New Issues From The South Atlantic And Antarctica.

 

New issues -

🇬🇧 Postal service of the British Antarctic Territory -

Where further issues (see also Blog 2812) -designed by Bee Design (Aurora and Expeditions set) and Andrew Robinson (Great skua set). All lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Rating:- *****.

The BAT Antarctic Survey Logistics Expedition 2025 - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp - 

The Great Skua - 4 stamps -

The Aurora Australis - 4 stamps -

🇫🇰 Falkland Islands postal service - 

12 November 2025 - The Aurora Australis - 4 stamps. Designed by Bee Design and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Rating:- *****.

🇬🇸 Postal service of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands -

13 November 2025 - ‘Heritage’ - 6 stamps. Designed by Bee Design and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Rating:- *****.

The production of all the above issues was coordinated by Creative Direction. Thanks to Isle Of Man Stamps and Coins for information about these issues..

New issues programmes 2026 -

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post - issues inscribed Guernsey or Alderney or Sark -

Guernsey Post not pulling any punches.

2795. 🇨🇶 Correct Spelling Of Soldiers On Sark Occupation Stamp.

 

New issues -

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post 

🇨🇶 Issues inscribed Sark -

27 August 2025 - 80th anniversary of the liberation of Sark from Nazi German occupation & the Royal Visit of The Princess Anne and Admiral Timothy Lawrence - 8 stamps and 1 limited edition miniature sheet. Publicity put out by Guernsey Post for this issue included an illustration of the 69p value with the incorrect spelling of ‘Soldiers’ as ‘Soliders’. There was a delay to Guernsey Post despatching this issue because, it was reported, Buckingham Palace’s approval of the issue was delayed. We may speculate that this delay was attributable to the Palace officials discovering the spelling error.

  I have now received the set of stamps and miniature sheet I ordered from Guernsey stamps and both ordinary stamp from sheets and that contained in the miniature sheet have the correct spelling of Soldiers. And that would seem to be the end of that.

Basic sheet stamp

Stamp from miniature sheet

🇨🇾 Cyprus Post -

19 September 2025 - ‘Peace’ (part of an omnibus issue of various European postal administrations and The United Nations postal service) - 1x €5 stamp. Designed by Hammerle and Vogel. Knitted (!)

Rating:- *

🇮🇪 An Post (postal service of the Republic Of Ireland -

25 September 2025 - ‘Changing leaves’ - 3 self-adhesive stamps issued in sheetlets of 6 (2 of each stamp) - Designed by Jenny Dempsey from illustrations by Yanny Peters and lithographed by Enschedé. Rating:- ***.

2778. 🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Commemorates Military And Aviation Museum.

 

New issues -

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

15 September 2025 - 25th anniversary of the Manx Aviation and Military Museum - 6 stamps (total face value £12.48p). Lithographed. Rating:- *.

15 September 2025 - 85th anniversary of the Battle of Britain - 1 Collectors sheet containing 16 different stamps sold in a special pack for £20. Rating:- 0.

🇧🇩  Bangladesh Post -

23 August 2025 - Mainamatipex 2025 philatelic exhibition - 4 stamps (1 previously issued definitive with overprint and surcharge applied spread over a block of 4 of the stamps). Rating:- **.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

31 August 2025 - The Jersey Witch Trials - in addition to the previously detailed 8 stamps and 1 single stamp miniature sheet (see Blog 2770) an additional miniature sheet containing one each of the stamps will also be issued. Price - £19.30 which makes the total cost of the issue to be £44! Rating:- 0.

Commonwealth countries which are not yet known to have issued or had issued on their behalf any legitimate postage stamps during 2025 -

Anguilla 

Antigua and Barbuda 

Bahamas 

Barbados 

Belize 

British Antarctic Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Cameroon

Cayman Islands 

Cook Islands including Rarotonga 

Cook Islands Aitutaki 

Cook Islands Penrhyn 

Dominica 

Gabon 

Ghana 

Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique 

Guyana

Kingdom of eSwatini 

Lesotho

Mauritius 

Montserrat 

Mozambique 

Nauru 

Nevis

New Zealand Ross Dependency 

Niue 

Papua New Guinea 

Pitcairn Islands 

Rwanda

St Kitts or St Kitts-Nevis

Saint Lucia

Samoa 

Solomon Islands 

South Africa 

The Gambia 

Tokelau 

Tonga 

Tonga Niuafo’ou 

Turks and Caicos Islands 

Tuvalu

Uganda 

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Zambia 

Therefore, at the end of August, 44 out of 88 (50.0%) (one new entity has been added in the form of Bailiwick of Guernsey Sark) of Commonwealth philatelic entities appear to have not issued, or not had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2025. This compares with 54% at the end of July and 41.6% at the end of August 2024.

First issues of 2025 from Bailiwick of Guernsey Sark, Kiribati, Malawi and St Vincent and The Grenadines -