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A historic collection of 261 Comoros postage stamps
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Year: 1892
Sultanate of Anjouan Navigation and Commerce - 20 Cents
This stamp highlights the era of French colonial expansion in the Indian Ocean, specifically within the Comoros archipelago under the Sultanate of Anjouan protectorate. The illustration features the "Navigation and Commerce" allegory, a classic theme of the French colonial "Group Type" program, which carries a message of economic progress, maritime power, and the civilizing mission through the personifications of seated figures holding a caduceus and a rudder. In the Comorian context, the presence of the "SULTANAT D’ANJOUAN" overprint represents the transitional period where the local authority of the Sultan was subsumed into the French administrative and postal framework, reflecting a heritage defined by the strategic trade routes of the Mozambique Channel. This piece documents the institutional shift from an independent sultanate to a colonial dependency, illustrating how local identity was framed within the broader mercantile interests and bureaucratic aesthetics of the French Republic during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Fiftieth Anniversary of the International Labour Organization
Maiden Flight of the Concorde Supersonic Airliner
The Comet Orchid
The Tuberose
The False Bird of Paradise
The Ylang-Ylang Flower
The Vanilla Orchid
The Msoila Prayer Rug - 45 franc
The Msoila Prayer Rug - 30 franc
The Msoila Prayer Rug - 20 franc
XIX Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City
International Year for Human Rights
The Lined Sweetlips
The Moorish Idol
The Emperor Angelfish
The Powder Blue Tang
20th Anniversary of the World Health Organization
X Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble
Nurse and Child
The Olive Bee-eater
The Comoro Paradise Flycatcher
The Cuckoo Roller
The Comoro Fody
