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A two pence stamp of Niger Coast surcharged to one halfpenny and used at Old Calabar in 1894. A name change occurred just as new stamps were being prepared, and so the first issue of the Niger Coast Protectorate, featuring a 3/4 portrait of Queen Victoria, was inscribed "OIL RIVERS" but obliterated and re-engraved "NIGER COAST" in a way which ...
The first stamps of Niger as an autonomous republic were issued in 1959 and are marked Republique du Niger.Niger acquired full independence on 3 August 1960. Stamps up to the 1970s tended to be large engraved issues similar to other former French colonies, including stamps featuring famous paintings like those of France. Later, more cheaply produced stamps were issued bu
The first stamps used in the Niger Territories were British stamps from 1890. [1] The Niger Territories never issued stamps, they only used British stamps which can be identified by their distinctive postmarks. The postmarks were inscribed "THE NIGER TERRITORIES POST OFFICE" or "THE ROYAL NIGER COMPANY CHARTERED & LIMITED", and with the name of ...
The Niger Coast Protectorate was a British protectorate in the Oil Rivers area of present-day Nigeria, originally established as the Oil Rivers Protectorate in 1884 and confirmed at the Berlin Conference the following year. It was renamed on 12 May 1893, and merged with the chartered territories of the Royal Niger Company on 1 January 1900 to ...
A postcard bearing a 5 centime Upper Senegal and Niger stamp with the portrait of Louis Léon César Faidherbe. Upper Senegal and Niger was a colony in French West Africa created in 1904 from Senegambia and Niger. Niger became a separate military district in 1911 and a separate colony in 1922, Upper Volta was split off in 1919, and the ...
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate . The Southern Nigeria Protectorate was a British protectorate in the coastal areas of modern-day Nigeria, formed in 1900 from union of the Niger Coast Protectorate with territories chartered by the Royal Niger Company below Lokoja on the Niger River.
Despite its brief existence, the French government-issued postage stamps for the administrative unit, in the form of a version of its Navigation and Commerce series, inscribed "SENEGAMBIE / ET NIGER". The set consisted of 13 values, from 1 centime to 1 franc. See also. Postage stamps and postal history of French Sudan
The Niger Coast collection has a number of proofs of the 1893 issue, some of which are unique. The majority of the collection is unused or specimen stamps with a few used stamps. See also. Postage stamps and postal history of the Cape of Good Hope; Postage stamps and postal history of the Niger Coast Protectorate