A Lepidopterist’s Delight in West Africa: Butterfly and Moth Stamps of Gabon
This little hunt for butterflies in West Africa requires neither net nor mosquito repellent, so forget your pith helmet and take a relaxing look at the beautiful and exotic stamp issues of Gabon. Please note that all the stamps shown are ...
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
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Some 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 ...
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
German Togo (Togo-land) (1886-1922) An Historical Survey
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 been ...
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Ghana, Anomabo Post Office (2008)
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Parcel Post Agreement Between the U.S. and the Gold Coast Colony
This article was originally published by the United States Government Printing Office in 1929. It contains no images but we have published it believing it to be of great interest to postal historians of West Africa, who may be interested ...
Monday, December 14th, 2009
Senegal: Dakar Post Office (1932)
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
St. Helena: Stamp Centenary (1956)
This profile originally appeared in Gibbons Stamp Monthly (February 1956) The original St. Helena sixpenny stamp, printed by Perkins, Bacon & Co. in 1856, bore a completely new and rather austere head of Queen Victoria, probably engraved by Humphrys. The same ...
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Stamps of Mali: Timbuktu – Africa’s Cultural Treasure
There are a number of cities which most people seem to know about without being able to provide details about their exact geographical locations. I am referring to cities like Samarkand and Timbuktu. If you enjoyed this article, you might also ...
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Stamps of Nigeria: International Anti-Apartheid Year (1979)
This 18k. multicoloured stamp issued on December 10, 1979 celebrated the International Apartheid Year. It was designed by A. O. Onwudimegwu and offset printed by Nigerian Printing Co. Perf 14. [caption id="attachment_4690" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="1979 Nigeria stamp celebrating the international year ...
Monday, April 20th, 2009
Stamps of the Gold Coast 1952-1954
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 our ...
Friday, June 20th, 2008
The Stamps of Southern Nigeria (1909)
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
The Stamps of St. Helena (1893)
William 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 ...
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
The Stamps of West Africa
[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 Coast ...
Monday, April 14th, 2008
Togo, Togo-land Map (1885)
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Tristan da Cunha: The Stampless Island (1909)
William 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 ...
Monday, April 14th, 2008
West Africa Map (1935)
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Sunday, June 8th, 2008
West Africa: Fernando Po (1869)
[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 of ...
Monday, March 17th, 2008
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