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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008: Glossary, Great Britain, New Zealand, Queen Victoria, Topicals or Thematics, West AfricaSome stamps have been issued having an advertisement printed on the back. The most well-known are certain Queen Victoria issues of New Zealand, but some British stamps were also printed experimentally. Modern self-adhesives from Sierra Leone have advertisements printed on ...
An Issue is Born: Gold Coast 1952-1954
Friday, June 20th, 2008: Bradbury, Designers, Gold Coast, Printers, Queen Elizabeth, Stamp Profiles, West Africa, Wilkinson & CoWilliam Cochrane. This article was taken from Gibbons Stamp Monthly (October, 1956). It contains some interesting material concerning the early issues of the Elizabethan reign and the printers and designs of these issues. It should be of interest to all of ...
Togo, Togo-land Map (1885)
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008: Africa, Germany & Colonies, Maps, Togo, West Africa
The Stamps of West Africa
Monday, April 14th, 2008: Africa, Gambia, Gold Coast, Lagos, Sierra Leone, Top Ten Articles, West AfricaWilliam Cochrane. This article is based on an article, which originally appeared in the Stamp Collectors’ Fortnightly (October 28, 1911). For philatelic purposes Africa seems to be divided into West Africa, South Africa and Egypt, the little of interest that the East ...
Tristan da Cunha: The Stampless Island (1909)
Monday, April 14th, 2008: Africa, Atlantic Islands, Tristan da Cunha, West AfricaWilliam Cochrane. As a member of the West Africa Study Circle, I was pleased to find this interesting article, which originally appeared in The Postage Stamp (October 9, 2909): It will come as a surprise to stamp collectors, who have often heard ...
The Stamps of Southern Nigeria
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008: British Commonwealth, Niger Coast Protectorates, Nigeria, West AfricaWilliam Cochrane. Here are the notes on a paper by B. Morley read before the Brighton branch of the Junior Philatelic Society (UK) almost a century ago (1909). He makes some interesting observations on the stamps on the design of the ...
German Togo (Togo-land) (1886-1922) An Historical Survey
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008: Africa, Germany & Colonies, Togo, West AfricaWilliam Cochrane. The Anglo-German boundary of 1890, had done much to separate many of the tribes of West Africa. The Mamprussi and Dagomba in the east, and Wa and the Gonjas in the west and southwest, were among principal areas that had ...
West Africa: Fernando Po
Monday, March 17th, 2008: Africa, Fernando Po, Orange Free State, Spain & Colonies, Transvaal, West AfricaWilliam Cochrane. Here is a curious little article, concerning the West African country of Fernando Po, which I discovered in a very early journal, The Stamp Collector’s Magazine (May 1, 1869). It is republished, with little correction, retaining its Victorian style. Shades ...
The Stamps of St. Helena
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008: Atlantic Islands, Classic Stamps, St. Helena, West AfricaWilliam Cochrane. Whilst trawling through early philatelic journals looking for interesting and informative articles for The Philatelic Database, I came across this very early paper read at the Plymouth Philatelic Society by Mr. A Levy (Hon. Secretary), January 11, 1893. “If any ...