Gold Coast: Stamps

I put the sub-forum in Africa right after Ghana

I think you'll find it to read MANGOASE

The 1920 Gold Coast colonial  report contains the following:

The 1905 report provides the intent of the transfer from Treasury to Post Office:


Here is a retroReveal-enhanced view of the cancel:

I believe this CDS is from Kumasi:





The retroReveal enhancement:

Probably not much else to do...

Hehehehe, nice one Ryan.

This thread could use a bump.



The 2-1/2d ultramarine and orange, released March 13, 1891, 124 years ago today. Victoria must have aged well, because she sure doesn't look 72 in the picture.

Gold Coast  ---   Later   (1957)    Ghana


1938  KG Vl
Christianborg Castle.

Sorry    My response didn't show I understood you, but I did get it.
I have always been surprised the Queen was so young when busted.

That having been said, I think the visage of the Monarch, takes on a different meaning on a stamp,
it's kind a marque of Identity for that country.
QE2 would be OK (for me) if she maintained  the same look as on the Machin for all time
as a link to GB stamps.
She seems not so bothered, and we see her form ageing on each successive release on commemorative stamps.

With a little bit of looking I've found a crown cancel from Axim dated 1909, and another from Anamaboe dated 1919, so the theory I was working out that they might be related to the new King, George V, is shot out of the water. Back to the drawing board.

I think we have to assume, it was merely an adopted Postmark design, by the authorities of the time.

Perhaps we have a game here, to isolate our own EKU and LKU
1908 is the earliest I have.

Guess:
I don't recall seeing it anywhere else.

I think we can get a possible answer, from looking at Ghana's history.
The British were stamping their authority over the region since 1876
1902 became a protectorate,  I think / guess perhaps the Crown design was a  optical reminder by the authorities, of the then, current status.

wiki:

The British Gold Coast was formed in 1867 after the British government abolished the African Company of Merchants in 1821 and seized privately held lands along the coast. They also took over the remaining interests of other European countries, purchasing and incorporating the Danish Gold Coast in 1850 and the Dutch Gold Coast, including Fort Elmina, in 1872. Britain steadily expanded its colony through the invasion of local kingdoms as well, particularly the Ashanti and Fante confederacies. The Ashanti people had controlled much of the territory of Ghana before the Europeans arrived and were often in conflict with them. They are the largest ethnic community in Ghana. Four wars, the Anglo-Ashanti Wars, were fought between the Ashanti (Asante) and the British, who were sometimes allied with the Fante.

During the First Anglo-Ashanti War (1822–1824), the two groups fought because of a disagreement over an Ashanti chief and slavery. Tensions increased in 1874 during the Second Ashanti War (1873–1874) when the British sacked the Ashanti capital of Kumasi. The Third Ashanti War (1893–1894) occurred because the new Ashanti ruler Asantehene wanted to exercise his new title. From 1895–1896 the British and Ashanti fought in the Fourth and final Ashanti War, where the Ashanti fought for and lost their independence. In 1900 the Ashanti Uprising took place, resulting in the British capture of the city of Kumasi. At the end of this last Ashanti War, the Ashanti people became a British protectorate on 1 January 1902.

By 1901, all of the Gold Coast was a British colony, with its kingdoms and tribes considered a single unit. The British exported a variety of natural resources such as gold, metal ores, diamonds, ivory, pepper, timber, grain and cocoa. The British colonists built railways and the complex transport infrastructure which formed the basis for the transport infrastructure in modern-day Ghana. They also built Western-style hospitals and schools to provide modern amenities to the people of the empire.

Using the largest Townships in Ghana, with "UMA" in the text string, gives 5   2 options

I would go for KUMASI as your underlying Postmark.

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Using Gold Coast "Crown" postmarks in Google, brings up a fair result of differing Post Offices using the device.
Something to study or find a GC Specialist / blog to see how widespread they were.

GVI Series


Gold coast 1920