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A historic collection of 317 Comoros postage stamps
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Year: 1892
Sultanate of Anjouan Navigation and Commerce - 15 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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Large Harp - Harpa conoidalis
Cypraecassis rufa - bullmouth helmet shell
Ici les Comores - Tower and the Islands
Emetteur de Dzaoudzi
Colvillea
10th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights
Rural Life and Community Development in the Comoros
West Indian Ocean Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae)
West Indian Ocean Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae)
West Indian Ocean Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae)
West Indian Ocean Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae)
10th Anniversary of the Allied Forces Landings in Normandy
Mosque of d' Ouani - 200 franc
Military Medal Centenary - 15 franc
Mosque of d' Ouani - 20 franc
Mosque of d' Ouani - 15 franc
Postage Due and Architectural Heritage - 1 franc
Postage Due and Architectural Heritage - 50 Centime
Cultural Identity and the Port of Moroni
Aerial Mail over Mutsamudu Village
Mosque in Moroni - 11 Franc
Mosque in Moroni - 10 Franc
Mosque in Moroni - 7Franc
