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The Overprinted Stamps of South West Africa to 1930. s.l.: Philatelic Holding (Pty) Ltd trading as Stanley Gibbons South Africa and Framic (Pty) Ltd., 1990 218p. Mallet-Veale, H. South-West Africa: a check list. London: Harris Publications Ltd., 1928 43p. Series Title: "Philatelic Magazine" handbook; no. 12. Putzel, Ralph F.
The first postage stamps of the protectorate were issued in April 1891, produced by overprinting the Rhodesian stamps of the British South Africa Company with B.C.A..A number of new post offices opened during the year, including Blantyre, Zomba, Chiromo, Port Herald, Fort Mlange, Fort Johnston at the southern end of the lake, and Karonga at the northern end of the lake.
1-centime stamp of Anjouan, 1892. 5-centime stamp of Grand Comoro, 1897. 2-centime from the Group series of Mohéli, 1906. A very few numbers of letters posted before 1900 in the Comoros are known. The oldest came from Mayotte in December 1850 and do not bear a postage stamp. Mayotte became a French colony at the beginning of the 1840s after ...
The administration issued postage stamps with the profile of King Edward VII and inscribed "EAST AFRICA AND UGANDA PROTECTORATES" in 1903. The same basic design was used throughout the period, with new watermark and colours in 1904 and 1907, respectively, and the substitution of King George V in 1912. The 6c stamp was surcharged 4c in 1919.
1937 stamps of South Africa. The first stamp of the Union of South Africa was a 2 d stamp issued on 4 November 1910. [ 2][ 3] It portrayed the Monarch King George V and the arms of the four British colonies which formed the Union: Cape Colony, Natal, Orange River Colony and Transvaal. Most South African stamps issued between 1926 and 1951 were ...
Postal history. Military postal service began at Bangui in 1893, at Fort Possel in 1894, and was gradually extended along the Ubangi River and northwards into the country during the 1900s. Civilian mail used postage stamps of Middle Congo ( Moyen Congo) from 1907. In 1915, Middle Congo stamps were overprinted "OUBANGUI-CHARI-TCHAD" for use in ...
This is a list of entities that have issued postage stamps at some point since stamps were introduced in 1840. The list includes any kind of governmental entity or officially approved organisation that has issued distinctive types of stamp for postal purposes. These include post offices in foreign countries and postal services organised by ...
A 1959 stamp of Ghana showing Diamond mining. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Ghana, known as the Gold Coast before independence. Ghana is located in West Africa, borders Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east and the Gulf of Guinea to the south.