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Year: 1897
Sultanate of Anjouan Navigation and Commerce - 30 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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Map of Mohéli Island
Shirazian Tombs - Mohéli Island
Village of Djoiezi - Mohéli Island
Village of Mohani - Mohéli Island
Map of Mayotte
Mamoudzou (Mamutzu)
Chiconi (Mayotte)
Moya Beach
Mausoleum of President Saïd Mohamed Cheikh
Mausoleum of President Saïd Mohamed Cheikh
Mosquée Salimata Hamissi
Mosquée Zaouiyat Chaduli
The Préfecture building
Post Office
Bank of Madagascar
Map of Grande Comore
Moroni
Foumbouni
Mitsamiouli
Goulaivoini
The island of Anjouan (Nzwani)
The Gomajou Peninsula
The Old Palace at Domoni
