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First

Country

Commemorative

Airmail

Post Due

Official

Charity

Other

1921
Sc1 SG5
¼ anna green
£19 / £60

1921
Sc12 SG19
¼ anna blue
£1 / £11

Barwani

Indian Feudatory State

-

-

-

-

-

 


1921 Sc1 SG1
1 centime violet and purple
10p / 30p

1926 Sc29 SG29
1 c green and purple
10p / £1.25

Niger

see French West Africa, 1943

1931
Sc73 SG73
40 c green
Colonial Exposition CDT
£2.25 / £2.25


1940 Sc-C1 SG94
1.90 fr blue
£1.60 / £3


1921 Sc-J1 SG-D18
5 c green
Upper Senegal and Niger PD o/p
15p / £2.75

1927
Sc-J9 SG-D73
2 c black and red
10p / £2.75

1962
Sc-O1 SG-O121
1 fr purple
10p / 10p

1938
Sc-B1 SG83
1.75fr + 50c blue
Curie CDT
£6.75 / £21

 

1921
Sc SG1
1 centimos green
Spanish o/p
15p / 10p

1948
Sc SG126
1 centimos green
10p / 10p

Spanish POs in Tangier

1929
Sc SG27
5 c red
Spanish o/p
Seville-Barcelona Issue
25p / 25p

1938
Sc SG83
25 c mauve
85p / 45p

-

-

-

 


1922 Sc1 SG1
½ d black and green
St. Helena o/p
£4.50 / £16


1924 Sc10 SG10
2 d black
£3.50 / £13

Ascension


1935 Sc23 SG31
1½ d blue and red
Silver Jubilee
90p / 80p

 

1986
Sc-J1 SG-D1
1 p deep brown and brown
15p / 20p

 

 

 


1922 Sc1 SG1
½ d green
£1 / £7.50


1968 Sc12 SG12
½ cent black pink and brown
20p / £1.25

Barbuda


1968 Sc29 SG28
25 c multi
Olympic Games, Mexico
45p / 25p

 

 

 

1982
[Sc-B1] SG617
25c + 50c
South Atlantic Fund
SG580 "crudely surcharged"
30p / 40p

see note 42.4

 

 


1922 Sc1 SG1
1 centime red and violet
15p / 30p

Republic


1959 Sc64 SG62
15 fr multi
£3 / £1.10

 

Chad

1931
Sc60 SG58
40 c green
Colonial Exposition CDT
£4 / £7

1960
Sc-C1 SG65
250 fr on 500 fr blue black and green
Fr. Equ. Africa surch
£9 / £9.50


1961 Sc-C2 SG82
50 fr black red and green
£3 / £1.10


1928 Sc-J1 SG-D58
5 c blue
French o/p
10p / £2.50


1928 Sc-J12 SG-D69
5 c olive and blue
25p / £2.75

Republic


1962
Sc-J23 (&24)
SG-D89 (&90)
50 c bistre
50 c brown
10p / 10p


1966 Sc-O1 SG-O148
1 fr blue
10p / 10p

 


1962 Sc-B1 SG88
25fr + 5 fr orange
Malaria Eradication CDT
75p / 75p

1974
Sc-B3 SG405
30fr + 10 fr multi
Red Cross of Chad, first anniv.
60p / 60p

 

 


1922 Sc1 SG1
½ d green
50p / 40p


1922 Sc65 SG71
½ d green
£1 / 90p

Ireland

 


1929 Sc80 SG89
2 d green
Centenary of Catholic Emancipation
50p / 45p


1948 Sc-C2 SG141
3 d blue
£3 / £2.25

see note 42.1


1949 Sc-C1 SG140
1 d brown
£1.50 / £3.50

 


1925 Sc-J1 SG-D1
½ d green
£12 / £16

see note 42.1


1925 Sc-J2 SG-D6
1 d red
£1.50 / 70p

 

 

 


1922 Sc18 SG76
1 cent brown
£1 / £3


1921 Sc1 SG44
1 cent black
30p / £1.75

Kenya and Uganda

previously East Africa and Uganda Protectorates

see note 42.5

 

 

1923
Sc-J1 SG-D1
5 c violet
£2.50 / 50p

 

 

 

1922
 Switzerland
 Sc-2O3 SG-LN3
5 centimes orange on buff
£2.10

see note 42.6


1928 Switzerland
 Sc-2O1 SG-LN1
2½ c bistre on buff
40p

League of Nations

1932
Sc-2O36 SG-LN34
5 c green
International Disarmament Conference o/p SOCIETE DES NATIONS
£10.50

 

 

 

 

 

1922
Sc1 SG50
12 cents grey
Kenya and Uganda o/p
50p / £2.25

see note 42.3


1922 Sc10 SG74
5 cents purple and black
£2.25 / 20p

Tanganyika

see note 42.5

and

Tanzania


1961 Sc45 SG108
5 c sepia and green
Independence
10p / 10p

 

 


1961 Sc-O21 SG-O1
5 c brown and green
o/p Sc45 SG108
10p / 10p

 

 


1922 Sc23 SG24
1 centime violet and green
Middle Congo o/p
35p / £2.75

Ubangi-Shari

see also Ubangi-Shari-Chad, 1915

French Equatorial Africa, 1936

and Central African Republic, 1959
 

see note 42.2

1931
Sc82 SG103
40 c green
Colonial Exhibition CDT
£5.50 / £11

-


1928 Sc-J1 SG
5 c blue
French PD o/p
£ / £


1930 Sc-J12 SG
5 c blue and olive
£ / £

-

-

 

First

Country

Commemorative

Airmail

Post Due

Official

Charity

Other

Table 42

Notes:
42.1 Ireland's first Post Due is rather expensive. I therefore opted for the cheaper option of the #2 (same design, better colour) priced (with a damaged corner) at an unbeatable 1p at the Sidcup Stamp Club Fair December 2003. On the airmail front, C1 (1d brown) was issued in 1949, C2 (3d blue) in 1948.
42.2 There is a gradual transition from Ubangi-Shari-Chad to Ubangi-Shari to French Equatorial Africa. It occurs in different places in Scott and Gibbons.
42.3 Similarly, with Tanganyika, there are overlaps with East African Protectorates, Kenya and Uganda  and Tanzania. For the first stamp, Gibbons begins in 1915 with IEF stamps overprinted G.R. POST MAFIA, numbered M33-M42, then 1916 Nyasaland overprints numbered N1-N5. 1917 begins the normal numbering range with SG45, a set of Kenya and Uganda overprints: Scott starts with this range of stamps, but with a 12c grey and dates it 1921. Finally,   Scott's O1 for Tanganyika is listed under KU&T in Gibbons.
42.4 Barbuda Charity. These were, to quote Scott, "crude surcharges" for the South Atlantic Fund on a booklet (Sc501) containing a variety of stamps featuring Charles and Di. Gibbons mentions all the stamps individually, of which I will take the first  (and cheapest).
42.5 The first stamps for British East Africa were issued in 1890. Then came East African and Ugandan Protectorates in 1903: while that is what is inscribed on the stamps, Gibbons lists these under Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika. In 1922 the inscription changed to Kenya and Uganda as above (although Scott lists the last few EA & U Protectorates under this heading as the name was changes officially in 1921), and Tanganyika (which previously used Kenya and Uganda overprints) also issued the first stamps in its own name. 1935 brought the first issue for Kenya, Uganda & Tanganyika and in 1965 the name switched to Kenya, Uganda & Tanzania. From 1976, they continued to issue similar commemoratives but inscribed with single country names. In the meantime, Kenya issued its own stamp in 1963, Uganda in 1961 and Tanzania in 1964. I hope that's clear.
42.6 For League of Nations, Scott dates the 2½ centimes bistre (Sc-2O1, SG-LN1) as 1928 and the 3 c blue (Sc-2O2, SG-LN2) as 1930, making #3 the first.

 

First

Country

Commemorative

Airmail

Post Due

Official

Charity

Other

1923
Sc-N1 SG1
5 centesimi green
Italian o/p
£4.25 / £4.25

Corfu

under Italian Occupation

see also 1941

-

-

-

-

-

 


1923 Sc1 SG1
20 centesimi green and orange
Italian o/p
Propaganda of the Faith Issue
£4 / £18

1934
Sc59 SG114
5 c green and brown
£2.75 / £9

Autonomous State
 1950
Sc65 SG?
1 millieme brown
£ / £

Cyrenaica

as #1

1932
Sc-C1 SG91
50 c red
Tripolitania airmail o/p
65p / 30p

1932
Sc-C6 SG96
50 c purple
£3.25 / 10p

1950
Sc-J1 SG?
2 m brown
£ / £

-

1925
Sc-B1 SG17
20c + 10c green and brown
Holy Year Issue
Italian charity o/p
£2.50 / £11.50

1926
Sc-B7 SG30
5c + 5c  brown
Colonial Institute CDT
60p / £4

 

1923
 Switzerland Sc-3O9 SG-LB9
20 centimes purple on buff
£7


1928 Sc-3O1 SG-LB1
2½ c bistre on buff
20p

International Labour Office

1932
Sc-3O32 SG-LB32
5 c green
International Disarmament Conference
70p

-

-

-

-

 


1923 Sc1 SG16
½ anna green
Indian o/p
£3.25 / £1.40


1958 Sc140 SG131
5 naye paise green
Sheik Abdullah
50p / 10p

Kuwait


1948 Sc82 SG74
2½ a on 2½ d blue
GB surch
Silver Wedding Issue
£1.75 / £1.75


1960 Sc153 SG144
40 np green and red
10th anniv. Sheik Abdullah's accession
35p / 10p

 

1933
Sc-C1 SG31
2 a green
Indian airmail o/p
£14 / £27


 1933 Sc-C2 SG32
3 a blue
Indian airmail o/p
£3 / £2.50


1964 Sc-C5 SG255
20 fils multi
45p / 25p

1963
Sc-J1 SG-D199
1 f brown and black
10p / 20p


1923 Sc-O1 SG-O1
½ anna green
Indian o/p
£2 / £25

 

 

1923
Sc1 SG1
10 centesimi red
Italian o/p
£9 / £14

Saseno

Adriatic island occupied by Italy in 1914 and returned to Albania in 1947.

-

-

-

-

-

 


1923
Sc1 SG1
½ d green
( bilingual pair)
South African o/p
£2.50 / £1


1931 Sc108 SG74
½ d green  and black
( bilingual pair)
Kori Bustard
£2.25 / 10p

South West Africa

see Namibia, 1990


1935 Sc121 SG88
1 d red and black
25th anniv. of the reign of George V
£1 / 25p


1930 Sc-C1 SG72
4 d green
South African airmail o/p
£1.25 / £6


1931 Sc-C5 SG86
3 d blue and brown
( bilingual pair)
£25 / £2.50


1923 Sc? SG-D1
5 d black and violet
( bilingual pair)
Transvaal PD o/p
£4 / £11

 


1923 Sc-J1 SG-D6
½ d blue green  and black
( bilingual pair)
South African PD o/p
£6 / £5.50


1931 Sc-J86 SG47
½ d green  and black
£1 / £9

1927
Sc-O1 SG-O1
½ d green  and black
( bilingual pair)
South African o/p
£70 / £30


1935 Sc-B1 SG92
½d + ½d green  and black
( bilingual pair)
South African o/p
Voortrekker Monument Issue
£1.50 / 75p

 


1923 Sc1 SG?
10 kopecks blue
Russian o/p
[ $3 / $5]
see note 43.5

1923
Sc14 SG1
40,000 roubles red
£2 / £4

Transcaucasian Federation

-

-

-

-

-

 


1923
Sc1 SG1
20 centesimi green and orange
Italian o/p
£2 / £6

1934
Sc73 SG204
5 c green and brown
£1.75 / £7.50

Tripolitania

1927
Libya Sc-B5 SG36
20c + 05c
First Tripoli Trade Fair
£2 / £3

 

see note 43.2

1930
Sc-C1 SG91
50 c purple
Italian o/p
80p / £2.25

1931
Sc-C8 SG116
50 c red
20p / 10p

-

1934
Sc-CBO1 SG-O226
25 lire + 2 l red
SG225 o/p
£1,300 / £2,750

see note 43.3


1925 Sc-B1 SG17
20c + 10c green and brown
Italian o/p
£1 / £4.25


1927 Sc-B7 SG30
5c + 5c brown
Italian Colonial Institute
20p / £2.25

 


1924 Sc1 SG2
1 centime grey
10p / 20p


1924 Sc33 SG34
1 centime green
Street in the Casbah
40p / £1.25

Algeria

1930
Sc78 SG106
10 fr brown
Centenary of Algeria and International Philatelic Exhibition
£24 / £30


1946 Sc-C1 SG254
5 fr red
35p / 50p


1926 Sc-J1 SG-D34
5 c blue
10p / £2.75

-


1927 Sc-B1 SG72
5c + 5c green
surch. Sc36
For the benefit of wounded soldiers
95p / £3.25

1930
Sc-B14 SG93
5c + 5c orange
Centenary of French occupation
£9 / £14.50

 


1924 Sc1 SG1
10 on 5 centimes purple
French surcharge
50p / £1

see note 43.1


1925 Sc50 SG58
0p10 violet
25p / 40p

Republic

1926 Sc63 SG95
3p50 on 0p75 red
o/p Sc53 SG61
£3 / £3

see note 43.6

Liban

1951 Sc247 SG429
0p50 red
25p / 10p

 

Lebanon

1924
Sc15 SG15
50c on 10c
green
surcharge on French Pasteur comm. Sc185
95p / £1.40

1930
Sc108 SG157
4 piastres sepia
Silk Congress
£11 / £12

 

1924
Sc-C1 SG22
2 pi on 40 c red and blue
o/p Sc10 SG10
£8.25 / £8.50


1930 Sc-C43 SG185
5 pi blue
90p / 70p


1924 Sc-J1 SG-D26
50 c on 10 c brown
French surcharge
£1.90 / £3


1925 Sc-J11 SG-D75
0p50 brown on yellow
35p / 50p

-


1926 Sc-B1 SG79
0p25 + 0p25 black
surch SG59
Refugee aid
£1.75 / £3

 


1924 Sc1 SG1
1 cent multi
£4 / £4

1929
Sc44A SG16
5 mung lilac and black
£4.50 / £4.50

Mongolia

1945
Sc83 SG67
1 tugrik black
Choibalsan's 50th birthday
£9 / £8

1961
Sc-C1 SG230
10 m multi
35p / 10p

-

-

1967
Sc-B1 SG448
30m + 20m multi
Solidarity with Vietnam
20p / 10p

 

 


1924 Sc1 SG1
½ d green
£1.50 / 10p

Southern Rhodesia


1935 Sc SG33
1 d green and red
Silver Jubilee
Victoria Falls
£3.25 / £1.75

-


1951 Sc-J1 SG-D1
½ d green
GB PD o/p
£3.25 / £16

-

-

 

1924
Sc1 SG1
5 centimos green
Tuareg and Camel
£1.50 / 40p

Spanish Sahara

1929
Sc13 SG25
5 c red
Spanish o/p
Seville-Barcelona Issue
15p / 15p

1951
Sc62 SG85
50 c orange
Visit of Gen. Franco
10p / 10p


1943 Sc-C8 SG72
5 c red and brown
40p / 40p

see note 43.4

-

-

1926
Sc-B1 SG13
5 c grey
Spanish Red Cross o/p
£7 / £7

1950
Sc-B13 SG80
50c + 10c brown Child Welfare
20p / 15p

Special Delivery
1971
Sc-E2 SG-E289
10 peseta brown and red
35p / 20p

 

First

Country

Commemorative

Airmail

Post Due

Official

Charity

Other

Table 43

Notes:
43.1 All the first Lebanese stamps except the Charity were French overprints and surcharges. The first real Lebanese stamps are also listed.
43.2 Tripolitania's first commem is the same is its first stamp and, like  most of its subsequent ones, an Italian overprint. It's first real   commem in Gibbons is the 1927 issue above: Scott lists this as a semi-postal under Libya, with a couple of the higher value stamps as Tripolitania Express issues.
43.3 Gibbons only Tripolitania Official is Scott's only Tripolitania Air Post, Semi-Postal, Official. Given the price, the distinction is academic.
43.4 Spanish Sahara's airmails C1-C7, Spanish overprints were previously listed in Scott, but removed as their status is uncertain.
43.5 Gibbons lists the Transcaucasian Federation Sc14, but not Scott's #1 Russian overprint.
43.6 the first real stamp fr the Lebanon republic is the Sc108 SG157 commemorative.

   

 

 

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