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| first issues > countries > french equatorial africa |
| Description | Scott | SG | Mi | Y&T | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gabon overprints † | ||||||
| 1c brown violet | 1 | 17 | ||||
| other values | 2-10 | 18-26 | ||||
| Middle Congo overprints | ||||||
| 1c chocolate | 11 | 1 | ||||
| other values | 12-26 | 11-16 | ||||
† The catalogues disagree on the sequencing of the overprints.
To paraphrase Gibbons [1] on 15th January 1910 the French colonies of Gabon, Middle Congo and Ubangi-Shari-Chad were combined to form French Equatorial Africa, though they continued to issue their own stamps until 1936. In 1958 the constituents became autonomous republics and they gained independence in 1960.
Sources: ScS, SGP6 [1].
Image from David Olson.
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