Navigation and Commerce issue
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The Navigation and Commerce issue is a definitive series of French postage stamps issued for the colonial territories of France. It was designed by Louis-Eugène Mouchon[1].
The issue uses a standard design featuring allegorical representations of navigation and commerce. The territory name is imprinted in a rectangular cartouche centered at the bottom of the stamp.
In the French colonies, it is the first series of territory-specific postal releases. To add the territory name permitted to end money loss from people buying stamps in low-valued currency colonies and selling or using them in high-valued currency colonies.[2]
It was first released in 1892, with later releases featuring new color schemes. Dates vary by territory, but by 1900 values start appearing surcharged in red or black ink to use the remaining stocks while colonies then used illustrated stamps.
[edit] List of French Territories that used Navigation and Commerce Stamps
- Anjouan
- Benin
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Dahomey
- Diego-Suárez
- French Congo
- French Guiana
- French Guinea
- French Polynesia/Oceania
- French Sudan[3]
- Gabon[4]
- Grand Comoro Island
- Guadeloupe
- India[5]
- Indochina
- Madagascar
- Martinique[6]
- Mayotte[7]
- Moheli[8]
- New Caledonia
- Obock
- Reunion
- Senegal
- Senegambia & Niger
- St. Pierre & Miquelon
- Ste. Marie de Madagascar[9]
[edit] Sources and references
- Notes
- ^ Dallay stamp catalogue.
- ^ "Navigation et commerce pour les colonies", in Chronique du timbre-poste français, Éditions Chroniques and La Poste, 2005, ISBN 2205057383, page 69
- ^ Scott 2007 Standard Postage Stamp Catalog. Scott Publishing Company 2007: 211.
- ^ Scott 2007 Standard Postage Stamp Catalog. Scott Publishing Company 2007: 1.
- ^ Scott 2007 Standard Postage Stamp Catalog. Scott Publishing Company 2007: 1249.
- ^ Scott 2007 Standard Postage Stamp Catalog. Scott Publishing Company 2007: 769.
- ^ Scott 2007 Standard Postage Stamp Catalog. Scott Publishing Company 2007: 803.
- ^ Scott 2007 Standard Postage Stamp Catalog. Scott Publishing Company 2007: 901.
- ^ Scott 2008 Standard Postage Stamp Catalog. Scott Publishing Company 2008: 797.
- Sources
- Scott Catalog, 2008 edition.
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