rod222
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What I collect: Worldwide Stamps, Ephemera and Catalogues
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Post by rod222 on Feb 26, 2015 13:18:02 GMT
A few odd bits and pieces.   |
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rod222
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Posts: 9,877
What I collect: Worldwide Stamps, Ephemera and Catalogues
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Post by rod222 on Feb 26, 2015 13:20:10 GMT
 Could any members advise CV of 5 Emelangeli value please. My 2009 Scott has a blank.  |
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Post by david on Dec 31, 2021 12:48:32 GMT
These are the stamps I have from Swaziland.   |
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REL1948
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What I collect: 1840-Pre-Decimal, GB and Colonies, 1840 1 penny reds, Postal Histories
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Post by REL1948 on Jan 27, 2022 13:50:07 GMT
Stamps of the Swaziland Protectorate, 1933-1956 Swaziland is a landlocked country in Southern Africa bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its north, west, south and southeast. At no more than 120 miles north to south and 81 miles east to west, the Swaziland Protectorate was one of the smallest countries in Africa. Despite its size, it has a diverse climate and topography, ranging from a cool and mountainous highveld to a hot and dry lowveld.
The population is composed primarily of ethnic Swazis. The main language is Swazi. The present boundaries were drawn up in 1881 in the midst of the "Scramble for Africa". After the Second Boer War, the kingdom, under the name of Swaziland became a British protectorate from 1903 until it regained its independence on 6 September 1968.
Throughout the protectorate period from 1906 to 1968, Swaziland was largely governed by a resident commissioner who ruled according to decrees issued by the British High Commissioner to South Africa. In 1907, Swazi land was partitioned into a third for the Swazi nation as reserves, and the remaining two-thirds as Crown and commercial land for white European occupation. The partition was carried out in 1909, and native Swazis living in the European areas were given five years to vacate the Crown land.
In the early years of indirect rule, the British expected that Swaziland would eventually be incorporated into South Africa. After the Second World War, however, South Africa's intensification of racial discrimination induced the United Kingdom to prepare Swaziland for complete independence.
In April 2018, the official name was changed to Eswatini.
Modern Eswatini is an absolute monarchy, the last of its kind in Africa.
Rob
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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 Jan 27, 2022 16:13:09 GMT
REL1948 What a bright and fresh presentation. 
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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 Feb 5, 2022 14:34:19 GMT
SG 53-64,issued in 1956.  |
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