rod222
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What I collect: Worldwide Stamps, Ephemera and Catalogues
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Post by rod222 on Feb 4, 2015 9:55:25 GMT
Afrique Occidental Francaise 1947 Rifle Dance Shelling Coconuts Trading Canoe Niger Oasis of Bilma Niger Kouande Weaving Dahomey Monorail Train Senegal  Selvedge Inscriptions Bottom stamp evidence of "Tropical Toning"  |
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Bombadil
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What I collect: Worldwide stamps 1840-1960
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Post by Bombadil on Apr 26, 2018 11:19:39 GMT
Postage due stamps 1947 Engraved Scott # J1-J10 CV £14.5 Vibrant colors   |
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hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 22, 2018 23:48:17 GMT
London Series airmail issue (in 1945). YT #PA1-3.  |
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hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Feb 23, 2019 11:27:31 GMT
Also for my son's homework project on the French colonial soldiers during WWI, we scanned the following two of my Harris album pages:   |
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hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 7, 2019 9:53:22 GMT
In this week's pickings, I found my first examples on the French West Africa official service stamps:  |
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anglobob
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What I collect: France and French Colonies,French cinderellas British Commonwealth QE2
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Post by anglobob on Mar 27, 2020 2:39:38 GMT
A letter sent to France from Nouna, Upper Volta dated 1 May 1948, with two stamps from French West Africa and a stamp from French Sudan, first issued in 1940.  |
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kasvik
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What I collect: Cancels mostly, especially Sweden Gävle and Lidingö, Switzerland Geneva, Germany Pforzheim
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Post by kasvik on Jun 29, 2020 21:50:24 GMT
@anglobob posts so many exceptional West African cancels and such, he makes me forget just how exceptional they are. Here is one I am not buying, but it is a fine example of how more typical, still quite nice, West African covers look; for me, it is a needed reminder.
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anglobob
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What I collect: France and French Colonies,French cinderellas British Commonwealth QE2
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Post by anglobob on Jul 27, 2020 18:53:07 GMT
Stamps were first issued in 1944 .Senegal,Ivory Coast,Dahomey,French Guinea,French Sudan,Mauritania,Niger and Upper Volta were provided with the general issues inscribed with French West Africa.Trying to find different postmarks from all the territories is quite interesting.Most common are those from Senegal and Ivory Coast.Stamps from Mauritania and Upper Volta are more challenging.   |
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daniel
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Post by daniel on Jul 28, 2020 1:23:51 GMT
The perfect place to show off my one French West Africa stamp on a postcard to promote an issue of Playboy magazine in 1981. It contained an interview with 'Tarzan The Ape Man' actress Bo Derek. Although not specifically mentioned in Edgar Rice Burroughs novels, it is conjectured that they were set in French West Africa. Oddly the country name is in English!  Scan_20200417 by Daniel, on Flickr  Scan_20200417 by Daniel, on Flickr |
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Jul 28, 2020 2:01:18 GMT
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anglobob
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What I collect: France and French Colonies,French cinderellas British Commonwealth QE2
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Post by anglobob on Aug 1, 2020 21:30:56 GMT
A selection of stamps issued before 1944 by individual colonies but postmarked in a different colony.Stamps from Senegal and used in Mauritania and vice versa seem to be a little easier to find.  |
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Post by greaden on Aug 2, 2020 2:03:13 GMT
A selection of stamps issued before 1944 by individual colonies but postmarked in a different colony.Stamps from Senegal and used in Mauritania and vice versa seem to be a little easier to find. (See previous post for image.) Mauritania was governed out of St Louis, Senegal. |
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Post by greaden on Aug 3, 2020 2:06:02 GMT
Very few of my used Mauritania stamps were actually postmarked in that country. Nearly all are from St. Louis, Senegal. France did very little to develop any infrastructure, and Mauritania was just thrown into independence. Slavery is still practiced there.
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anglobob
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What I collect: France and French Colonies,French cinderellas British Commonwealth QE2
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Post by anglobob on Sept 15, 2020 13:40:19 GMT
Yvert 17 on a letter sent in 1946 from Ivory Coast to Marseille,France with 12franc postage due stamps--possibly to pay the difference for sending it registered.According to Dallay catalogue,20fr was the rate to send a registered letter overseas.  |
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anglobob
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What I collect: France and French Colonies,French cinderellas British Commonwealth QE2
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Post by anglobob on Sept 15, 2020 14:21:30 GMT
Yvert PA 12.issued in 1947 and sent from Agboville,Ivory Coast to Chicago,USA. A pity the stamp was affixed upside-down........  |
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renden
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Post by renden on Sept 15, 2020 16:32:01 GMT
Afrique Occidentale Française/French West Africa Scott 3, 7 Mauritania # 91 surch in red  |
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anglobob
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Post by anglobob on Sept 16, 2020 17:04:17 GMT
Three letters from Senegal,Ivory Coast and Dahomey with different values from the 1945 Tirailleur series ,and the 1946 Anniversay of Liberation on the Dahomey letter.  |
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anglobob
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What I collect: France and French Colonies,French cinderellas British Commonwealth QE2
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Post by anglobob on Sept 19, 2020 14:03:31 GMT
Stamps from the 1945 Tirailleur set of 1945 with postmarks from various colonies.  |
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anglobob
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What I collect: France and French Colonies,French cinderellas British Commonwealth QE2
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Post by anglobob on Oct 12, 2020 22:23:14 GMT
Slogan cancellations YV 48 Dakar Senegal and YV 62 Conakry French Guinea.  |
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anglobob
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What I collect: France and French Colonies,French cinderellas British Commonwealth QE2
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Post by anglobob on Nov 9, 2020 21:52:27 GMT
An airmail letter sent from Dakar,Senegal with 10fr stamp issued in 1945 and with MARINE NATIONAL SERVICE A LA MER cancellation.  |
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anglobob
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What I collect: France and French Colonies,French cinderellas British Commonwealth QE2
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Post by anglobob on Nov 11, 2020 10:27:26 GMT
A cover sent to France,dated 26 July,1945 with a Saint Louis postmark and with stamps from Mauritania and Togo.Togo was not officially part of the French West Africa federation.  |
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anglobob
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Post by anglobob on Nov 11, 2020 10:52:27 GMT
Stamps from 1945 Tirailleur series. YV20 used on cover from Ivory Coast with a slogan cancellation proclaiming Abidjan to be the second port in French West Africa. YV19 used on cover from Niger with an uncommon cancellation from Magaria.  |
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anglobob
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Post by anglobob on Nov 13, 2020 14:23:21 GMT
Yvert 37,issued in 1947 in a series of 19 stamps depicting aspects of local life in the colonies of French West Africa.This particular stamp shows a young girl from Mauritania. Both covers were mailed from Dahomey,one with an unusual hexagon cancellation from Godomey,the other cancelled at Kandi.  |
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anglobob
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What I collect: France and French Colonies,French cinderellas British Commonwealth QE2
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Post by anglobob on Nov 13, 2020 21:58:05 GMT
1945 Tirailleur series.YV 6.7.8.9 Four of the lower value denominations on a letter to France.These are a little harder to find on covers and catalogue prices are higher than the high face value stamps in this series. Sent from Dakar,Senegal on 16 July,1946......with the month inserted upside down on the date-stamp.  |
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anglobob
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Post by anglobob on Nov 15, 2020 16:38:37 GMT
More examples of the 1945 Tirailleur series on 3 covers Two are to Cameroun from Dahomey and Dakar,Senegal and one to France from Saint Louis,Senegal.These were obtained from 3 different sources and all are sent to a Monsieur Establet.I have also found some other covers to the same person who appears to have worked in the Ministry of French Colonies.  |
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anglobob
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What I collect: France and French Colonies,French cinderellas British Commonwealth QE2
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Post by anglobob on Nov 17, 2020 14:34:49 GMT
Assorted postmarks from the 1950,s. I have not come across the Dahomey and Ivory Coast cancellations on earlier stamps.  |
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anglobob
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Post by anglobob on Feb 5, 2021 15:57:18 GMT
Yvert PA21,issued in July 1957 to commemorate the Centenary of African Troops.  |
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renden
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Post by renden on May 17, 2021 18:35:34 GMT
A Nice Block from "Afrique Occidentale Francaise" (French West Africa) received from a seller in France today Chad to Rhine Issue Sc # C9 - 1946  |
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salentin
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collecting Germany,where I live and about 20 more countries,half of them in Asia east of the Indus
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Post by salentin on May 18, 2021 12:46:33 GMT
A fine bloc indeed ! Just out of curiosity: what makes it a plate-bloc ?
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renden
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Post by renden on May 18, 2021 13:01:44 GMT
A fine bloc indeed ! Just out of curiosity: what makes it a plate-bloc ?
Since you already know the answer, salentin, I have corrected my post to reflect a nice block  since - A plate block is a block of stamps from the edge of the sheet which shows the plate or cylinder from which the stamps were printed. Variations do exist from Country to Country René |
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