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Name |
Issued
stamps |
Bird
stamps |
---|---|---|
1853–1904 Cape of Good Hope | ≈ 70 | |
1857–1909 Natal | ≈ 100 | |
1868–1909
Orange Free State, Orange River Colony
The O.F.S. was formally annexed to the British Crown and renamed the Orange River Colony on 28 May 1900. In 1910 this colony along with Cape of Good Hope, Natal and Transvaal formed the Union of South Africa. |
≈ 70 | |
1869–1907 Transvaal | ≈ 200 | |
1874–1879 Griqualand West | ≈ 20 | |
1884
Stellaland
Stellaland was a Boer republic located in an area of Bechuanaland, west of the Transvaal. → see under Stellaland |
≈ | |
1885–1966 Bechuanaland Protectorate | ≈ 200 | ≈ 8 |
1886–1887 Nieuwe Republiek | ≈ 60 | |
1888–1896 Zululand | ≈ 30 | |
1889–1892 Swaziland [Transvaal Administration] | ≈ 9 | |
1899–1902 British Occupation Issues During the Boer War | ≈ 40 | |
1900 Vryburg | ≈ 4 | |
1900 [Siege of] Mafeking | ≈ 20 | |
1910–1961 Union of South Africa | ≈ 500 | |
1933–1966 Basutoland Protectorate | ≈ 100 | |
1933–1966
Swaziland [British Protectorate]
Throughout the colonial period from 1906 to 1968, Swaziland was a British Protectorate, but the first stamp issued at 1933 only. |
≈ 100 | |
1961–today
South Africa
→ see under South Africa |
≈ 2 Thousand | ≈ 188 |
1966–today
Botswana
→ see under Botswana |
≈ 1 Thousand | ≈ 148 |
1966–today
Lesotho
→ see under Lesotho |
≈ 2 Thousand | ≈ 220 |
1967–today
Swaziland
→ see under Swaziland |
≈ 700 | ≈ 67 |
1976–1994
Transkei
→ see under South Africa |
≈ 300 | ≈ 26 |
1977–1994
Bophuthatswana
→ see under South Africa |
≈ 300 | ≈ 20 |
1979–1994
Venda
→ see under South Africa |
≈ 300 | ≈ 42 |
1981–1994
Ciskei
→ see under South Africa |
≈ 300 | ≈ 36 |
Michael Smith: “An Introduction to the Postal Stationery of the Orange Free State,” Gibbons Stamp Monthly, October 2013: 142-145.
Nimrod [pseud.], “Stamp Hunting: Nimrod suggests some stamps worth looking for Basutoland,” Gibbons Stamp Monthly, Aug 2014: 97.
Alan Drysdall, Fernando Torres, “Railway Perfins of Transvaal and Orange River Colony,“ Gibbons Stamp Monthly, June 2016: 78-82.