LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS FRENCH COLONIESġ859-1955 General Issue and Offices abroad, collection in a large PALO hingeless album, with Eagle & Crown, Ceres and Napoleon, Type Sage, Commerce and Postage Dues, virtually complete, used and mostly unused (YT €7,800+), followed by a strong showing of French Offices in China, including Canton, Hoi Hao, Kwangchowan, Mongtseu, Pakhoi, Tchongking and Yunnan Fou, various overprints, many to 10fr (YT €11,000+), French Offices in Crete, French Offices in Zanzibar, most are signed, few with certificates (YT €3,900), 1945-49 French Zone Issues, mostly complete with souvenir sheet, 1920 Arad Issue (Hungarian stamps overprinted "Occupation Francaise"), signed Pape, also on cover, plus some Saar and Memel, occasional mixed condition, generally fine-v.f., cat $25,000+ġ886-1973 French Colonies in the Americas, collection in a PALO hingeless album, used and mostly unused French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Inini, Martinique (better surcharges signed Calves, Roumet, etc., few certificates), Navigation & Commerce sets, Vichy issues, St. On August 5, 1960, it attained full independence from France.Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World In 1960 it issued a definitive series of 18 stamps showing native animal masks, and generally followed a stamp program consistent with other African members of the French Community. The Republic operated its own postal system, and issued its first stamp in 1959, marking the 1st anniversary of the Republic, and memorializing governing council president Daniel Ouezzin Coulibaly, who had died recently. Upper Volta was reconstituted in 1947, its postal administration continued to be part of French West Africa until the establishment of the Republic of Upper Volta in 1958. In 1932 the colony was dissolved and its territory divided between Côte d’Ivoire, French Sudan and Niger. Upper Volta also participated in the Colonial Exposition Issue of 1931. Overprints and surcharges continued to be issued throughout the 1920s, then superseded in 1928 by a definitive series of 23 stamps featuring three designs: a Hausa chief, Hausa woman, and Hausa warrior. Upper Volta's first stamps were issues of Upper Senegal and Niger overprinted "HAUTE-VOLTE", appearing in 1920. Upper Volta 1931 Colonial Exposition Issue of Upper Volta. Prior to the creation of French Upper Volta in 1919, postal service in the area was administered by Senegambia and Niger and then Upper Senegal and Niger. The story of the posts in Burkina Faso begins in the 1890s, with French penetration into the area and the establishment of military posts. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Burkina Faso, known as Upper Volta until July 1984. A 2008 stamp of Burkina Faso showing traditional wrestling.
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