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A historic collection of 261 Comoros postage stamps
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Year: 1892
Sultanate of Anjouan Navigation and Commerce - 75 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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Hansel and Gretel (Brothers Grimm)
Summer Olympic Games 1976 - Montreal - 400 CF
Summer Olympic Games 1976 - Montreal - 500 CF
Summer Olympic Games 1976 - Montreal - 100 CF
Summer Olympic Games 1976 - Montreal - 75 CF
Summer Olympic Games 1976 - Montreal - 40 CF
Summer Olympic Games 1976 - Montreal - 25 CF
Summer Olympic Games 1976 - Montreal -20 CF
Winter Olympic Games Innsbruck, Austria -1000 CF
Winter Olympic Games Innsbruck, Austria -1000 CF
Winter Olympic Games Innsbruck, Austria - 500 CF
Winter Olympic Games Innsbruck, Austria - 400 CF
Winter Olympic Games Innsbruck, Austria - 200 CF
Winter Olympic Games Innsbruck, Austria - 50 CF
Winter Olympic Games Innsbruck, Austria - 35 CF
Winter Olympic Games Innsbruck, Austria - 30 CF
Winter Olympic Games Innsbruck, Austria - 5 CF
Bicentennial of the United States of America (1776-1976) -John Paul Jones (1747-1792)
Bicentennial of the United States of America (1776-1976) -George Washington (1732-1799)
Bicentennial of the United States of America (1776-1976) -Native American Ceremonial Gathering
Bicentennial of the United States of America (1776-1976) -Leland Stanford (1824-1893) and Thomas C. Durant (1820-1885)
Bicentennial of the United States of America (1776-1976) -Henry Wells (1805-1878) and William G. Fargo (1818-1881)
Bicentennial of the United States of America (1776-1976) -Richard Egan (1918-1987) and Johnny Fry (1804-1873)
