First Issues - 1871 to 1876

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Gold Coast

[1st July 1875] 1875 SG5 Sc5	Commemorative 1935 SG113 Sc108 Silver Jubilee	Charity 1918 SG85 Sc-MR1 War Tax	Official 1923 SG-D2 Sc-J2	Ghana 1957 SG166 Sc1

Another west African territory and another money-saving watermark variant on the #1. Similarly, the keenly-priced 1d post due is shown rather than the costly ½d. It became the independent Ghana in 1957.

Montserrat

September 1876 SG1 Sc1	1884 SG7 Sc5	Commemorative 1932 SG84 Sc75 300th anniv. of Montserrat colonisation	Charity 1917 SG60 Sc-MR1 War tax	Official 1976 SG-O1 Sc-O1

Back to the West Indies for Montserrat. #1 is an Antigua overprint, the first real Montserrat stamp being the 1880 2½d red at £250/£180, but the 1884 ½d to the same design is preferred. At the time of writing, it remains a British Overseas Territory. The Official is an early contender in the Large tangent.

Occupation Issues and Offices Abroad

Peru

1881 SG57 Sc-N11

These are shown in a separate display, although some are shown with the occupied territory, as with Montenegro, above.
In this period, the War of the Pacific (1879-83), derived from a quarrel between Chile and Bolivia over the taxation of Chilean nitrates, Peru became involved because of a treaty with Bolivia and was occupied by Chile in 1881. Overprinted Chilean stamps were used until 1883. Gibbons lists a number of occupation issues which Scott had previously catalogued but now regards as normal Chilean stamps merely cancelled in Peru.

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