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A historic collection of 317 Comoros postage stamps
✨ Discovery of the day
Year: 1966
Hotel Itsandra in Moroni
This regular postage issue features a coastal landscape painting by Roger Chapelet depicting the newly constructed, multi-story modernist architecture of the Hôtel Itsandra, situated on a rocky volcanic cliffside just north of the capital city, Moroni. The composition highlights the stark white, geometric resort building nestled amid a dense canopy of tropical palms and coastal flora, overlooking a sandy beach cove where a sailboat navigates the turquoise shore waters. Historically, this stamp documents the territorial administration's deliberate economic strategy in the late 1960s to cultivate a luxury international tourism sector and modernize commercial hospitality infrastructure across the Comoro Islands. By celebrating this premier beachfront hotel facility, the postal network broadcasted the archipelago's emerging status as an exotic, accessible destination for European travelers and foreign investment.
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Tobacco pouch
15th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights
Centenary of the International Red Cross
Global Campaign Against Hunger
First Transatlantic Television Liaison by Satellite
Giant Clam and Sea Anemones
The World United Against Malaria
Finger Coral -Madrepora fructicosa
Atlantic Trumpet Triton - Charonia tritonis
Scorpion Spider Conch - Lambis scorpio
Green Turban -Turbo marmoratus
Ramose Murex - Murex ramosus
Large Harp - Harpa conoidalis
Cypraecassis rufa - bullmouth helmet shell
Ici les Comores - Tower and the Islands
