French post offices in Zanzibar

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10-anna overprint on a 1-franc Type Merson, postmarked Zanzibar in 1903

The French post offices in Zanzibar were post offices operated by France in Zanzibar from 1894 to 1906, when the United Kingdom took direct control of what had previously been a protectorate.

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[edit] Sources

• Stanley Gibbons Ltd: various catalogues
• Encyclopaedia of Postal History
• Stuart Rossiter & John Flower: The Stamp Atlas