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Revenue Stamps Of Seychelles
Revenue stamps of Seychelles were first issued in 1893, when the islands were a dependency of the British Crown Colony of Mauritius. The first stamps were Mauritius Internal Revenue stamps depicting Queen Victoria overprinted for use in Seychelles, and Bill stamps were also similarly overprinted. Postage stamps depicting Victoria or Edward VII were overprinted for fiscal use at various points between 1894 and 1904, while surcharges on Bill stamps were made in around 1897–98. New stamps depicting Edward VII and George V were issued in 1906 and 1915 respectively. Some postage stamps were overprinted once again in the 1920s, but unoverprinted postage stamps were later used for fiscal purposes. In the 1980s, a single stamp was issued to pay the Passenger Service Fee, and this was replaced passenger coupons in the 1990s. Impressed duty stamps and embossed stamp papers were probably used from the 1900s to the 1960s, but have not been recorded as issued stamps. One pre-printed cheque s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Mauritius
Mauritius was a Crown colony off the Southeast coast of Africa. Formerly part of the French colonial empire, British rule in Mauritius was established de facto with the Invasion of Isle de France in November 1810, and de jure by the subsequent Treaty of Paris. British rule ended on 12 March 1968, when Mauritius became independent. History of british Isle de France, which consisted of Mauritius and some other islands had been under French rule since 1715. However, during the Napoleonic Wars, despite the French naval victory in the Battle of Grand Port on 20–27 August 1810, Mauritius was captured on 3 December 1810 by the British under Commodore Josias Rowley. British possession of the island was confirmed four years later by the Treaty of Paris in 1814. Nonetheless, French institutions, including the Napoleonic Code of law, were maintained, and the French language was still more widely used than English. The British administration, with Robert Townsend Farquhar as the fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Postage Stamps And Postal History Of Seychelles
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Seychelles, a 115 island nation spanning an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar. Seychelles was administered as a dependency of Mauritius from 1810 to 1903. Independence was granted in 1976. First mails From 1848, stamps of Mauritius were used on mail from Seychelles and are found with the cancel B64 from that year. The first post office in the Seychelles was opened at Victoria, Seychelles, Victoria, on Mahé, Seychelles, Mahe, on 11 December 1861 and stamps of Mauritius were used there until 1890. The next post office in Seychelles was not opened until 1901.''Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue: Indian Ocean''. 1st edition. London: Stanley Gibbons, 2006, pp. 62-77. First stamps of Seychelles The first stamps marked Seychelles were issued on 5 April 1890 and were of a Queen Victoria Key type stamp, key type design. A number of different issues followed, all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
