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Exclusive and rare African stamps for sale priced for a serious collector. Many of the stamps in this section are rare errors and overprints, obscure issues, or large lots and complete (or near-complete) collections. Click pictures or prices to see ...
The blog at Stamp Collecting Roundup is not strictly about African stamps, but about all stamps (and postal news) that interest the blogger, Don Schilling of Glendale, CA. Don is a member of the American Philatelic Society as well as ...
Upper Volta stamps can be found from the establishment of the colony from 1919 — 1932, and then from the country's independence from 1960 — 1984, when it became Burkina Faso. There are overprints available to collectors, including from the ...
United Arab Republic stamp history
The United Arab Republic was the official name of the stamp-issuing union between Egypt and Syria beginning in 1958. This immediately followed the short period when Egypt, on its own, had first become a Republic. Syria left the United Arab ...
The Sultanate of Egypt and Sudan was a short period (1914 — 1922) during which the former Khedivate was a British Protectorate, and the ruler's title was changed from khedive to sultan. There was a decent variety, from a stamp-collecting ...
Stellaland/Goshen stamp history
Stellaland was the first Batswana area to issue stamps, in 1883. As the self-declared Republic of Stellaland, the entity merged with the similar-situationed Goshen to form the United States of Stellaland. Stamps were issued by Stellaland until 1885, when the ...
The colony of Spanish Guinea, now called Equatorial Guinea, issued stamps as far back as 1868 for the island of Fernando Poo, though the colony proper wasn't established until 1926. From 1926 until 1959, Spanish Guinea (in Spanish, Guinea Española) ...
Río Muni is the largest part of Equatorial Guinea, being the part on the African mainland (the rest of the country is made up of islands, including Bioko, formerly Fernando Poo). Stamps for Río Muni were issued by Spain, which ...
The Republic of Egypt and its stamps lasted from 1953, when Farouk and the Kingdom that had existed since 1923 was overthrown, until 1958, when Egypt joined forces with Syria to form the United Arab Republic. The Republic of Egypt ...
After gaining independence from Britain in 1922, the new Kingdom of Egypt and Sudan began its own stamp program. The Kingdom lasted until 1953. Ahmed Fouad, then the Sultan of the British Protectorate (officially the Sultanate of Egypt and Sudan) ...
The Khedivate of Egypt and Sudan lasted from 1844 until 1914. The term refers to khedive, the title assumed by Muhammad Ali Pasha, a leader of Egypt and Sudan during the Ottoman Empire. The term khedive is roughly translatable as ...
Italian East Africa stamp history
Italian East Africa, known in Italian as Africa Orientale Italiana, was a colony that lasted from 1936 — 1941, and was made up of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Italian Somaliland, and (later) British Somaliland (modern-day Somalia is made up of these last ...
Guinea, in far Western Africa, has a stamp history that begins with its time as a French colony in the 19th century. Officially, Guinea was called French Guinea from 1893 — 1895 (Guinée Française in French), though its first stamps ...
Guinea-Bissau's earliest stamps were issued in 1881, when it was a colony of Portugal called Portuguese Guinea (in Portuguese, Guiné Portuguesa). The area was concentrated in the coastal towns of Bissau and Cacheu. (This Portuguese colonial relationship had been in ...
A collection of Ghana stamps is a peek into British colonial history!From 1874 to 1957, Ghana was part of the British colony called Gold Coast. During this time, stamps were issued for the colony, and the longevity of the situation ...
German East Africa stamp history
The colony of German East Africa was established in 1885, and in time included what is now Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanazania. German East African stamps were originally regular German issues with overprints; eventually Germany began printing stamps especially for the ...
The Gambia (full name: Republic of The Gambia) has one of Africa's earlier philatelic histories: stamps inscribed with GAMBIA were first issued in 1869, when it was part of the British West African Settlements. This period (also known simply as ...
Gabon's stamp history goes back to 1862, when France used its own colonial stamps, overprinted with GAB. Gabon became more officially connected to France when it became part of the French Congo in 1889. The French Congo had been operating ...
French West Africa stamp history
The large colony of West Africa comprised what are today Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Burkina Faso, Benin, and Niger. From 1895 until 1943, each of the separate areas issued their own stamps; afterwards, stamps for the ...
Egypt France Port Said stamp history
France maintained a post office in Port Said on the northern coast of Egypt from 1867 to 1931. French stamps were used from 1867 to 1899; cancellations of these stamps are great pieces to add to an Egyptian or French ...
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