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A historic collection of 261 Comoros postage stamps
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Year: 1906
Sultanate of Anjouan Navigation and Commerce - 1 Centime
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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Apollo-Soyuz Test Project - 30 CF
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project - 1500 CF
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project - 1500 CF
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project - 500 CF
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project - 400 CF
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project - 200 CF
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project - 100 CF
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project - 50 CF
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project - 10 CF
first radiotelephone link between Paris and Moroni - 75 CFA
first radiotelephone link between Paris and Moroni - 35 CFA
Maiden Flight of the Concorde Supersonic Airliner
Deployment of the Diapason D1 Satellite
Launch of the Diamant Rocket
Orbit of the Astérix A1 Satellite
Centenary of the International Telecommunication Union
First Transatlantic Television Liaison by Satellite
Ici les Comores - Tower and the Islands
