Madagascar
Madagascar : postal history with stamps on covers,
cancellations, postmarks, and frankings.
Subcategories
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expeditionary corps 1895
Madagascar : covers from the 1895 expeditionary corps
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Military occupation...
Madagascar : covers of the military occupation forces 1896-1918
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Filanzane
Madagascar : sale stamp filanzane (filanjana) on documents.
First series issued in 1908 with several successive prints until 1928
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Cancels except...
Madagascar, sale covers with postal cancellations (except Antananarivo).
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Antananarivo postmarks
Antananarivo : sale covers with postmarks and cancels. -
Frankings
Madagascar : sale covers with interesting franking
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Madagascar 1939 to May...
Madagascar during the World War 2 : covers with cancellations, postmarks or censor labels.
At the beginning of the Second World War, the island remained faithful to the Vichy government and was cut with France by the British blockade. Ships took the mail and a majority were intercepted and wears the marks of South African or Britishcensorship.
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Madagascar May 1942 to...
Sale Madagascar covers of the World War 2 during the british occupation.
On May 5, 1942, the British launched the combined operation “Ironclad” and occupied the bay of Diégo-Suarez.
The operation was continued by the East African Army with the conquest of the island, which was fully occupied in November 1942.
In January 1943, the Free French government took over, but British censorship lasted until 1946.
