Compendium of postage stamp issuers (Brit–British)
Each "article" in this category is a collection of entries about several stamp issuers, presented in alphabetical order. The entries are formulated on the micro model and so provide summary information about all known issuers.
See the Category:Compendium of postage stamp issuers page for details of the project.
Britain edit
- Refer
- Great Britain
British Administration Issues edit
British Antarctic Territory edit
British Bechuanaland edit
Territory in southern Africa which was separated from Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana) by the Molopo river. British Bechuanaland became a British colony on 30 September 1885 but was added to Cape Colony on 16 November 1895. It is now the northern part of Cape Province in South Africa.
The first stamps issued were Cape of Good Hope types with an overprint. Specific types were issued in 1887 but subsequently there were further British and Cape types with overprints. Cape of Good Hope stamps were introduced to British Bechuanaland in 1895 but, conversely, British Bechuanaland types were retained for use in the neighbouring Bechuanaland Protectorate from 1890 to 1897.
- Refer
- Cape of Good Hope
- See also
- Bechuanaland Protectorate
British Central Africa edit
- See also
- Malawi;
- Nyasaland Protectorate
British Columbia edit
- Dates
- 1865 – 1868
- Capital
- Vancouver
- Currency
- (1865) 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
- (1868) 100 cents = 1 dollar
- Main Article
- Postage stamps and postal history of British Columbia
- Includes
- British Columbia and Vancouver Island
- Vancouver Island
- See also
- Canadian Provinces
British Columbia & Vancouver Island edit
British Commonwealth Occupation of Japan edit
British Consular Mail edit
British East Africa edit
British East Africa Company edit
- Refer
- British East Africa
British Field Office in Salonika edit
British Forces in Egypt edit
- Refer
- Egypt (British Forces)
British Guiana edit
- Dates
- 1850 – 1966
- Capital
- Georgetown
- Currency
- 100 cents = 1 dollar
- See also
- Guyana
British Honduras edit
- Dates
- 1866 – 1973
- Capital
- Belize
- Currency
- (1866) 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
- (1888) 100 cents = 1 dollar
- Main Article Needed
- See also
- Belize
British Indian Ocean Territory edit
- Dates
- 1868 – 1976
- Capital
- Victoria (on Mahe, Seychelles)
- Currency
- 100 cents = 1 rupee
- See also
- Seychelles;
- Zil Elwannyen Sesel
British Levant edit
British Middle East Forces edit
- Refer
- Middle East Forces
British Military Administration Issues (BMA) edit
British New Guinea edit
- Dates
- 1901 – 1906
- Capital
- Port Moresby
- Currency
- 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
- Refer
- Papua New Guinea
British Occupation Issues edit
- Main Article Needed
- Includes
- Baghdad (British Occupation);
- Batum (British Occupation);
- Bushire (British Occupation);
- Cameroons (British Occupation);
- East Africa Forces;
- German East Africa (British Occupation);
- Iraq (British Occupation);
- Japan (British Commonwealth Occupation);
- Long Island (British Occupation);
- Mafia Island (British Occupation)
British Occupation of Italian Colonies edit
British Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia edit
British stamps overprinted with Indian currency; used in Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Kuwait, Muscat and Qatar.
Muscat and Dubai relied on Indian postal administration until 1 April 1948 when the British agencies were established. Two agencies were opened in Qatar: at Doha (August 1950) and Umm Said (February 1956). In Abu Dhabi, an agency was opened on Das Island in December 1960 and in Abu Dhabi City on 30 March 1963. The agencies also supplied stamps to Bahrain until 1960; and to Kuwait during shortages in 1951–1953.
The agency in Dubai issued the Trucial States stamps on 7 January 1961.
As each state took over its own postal administration, the offices closed. Closure dates were: Qatar on 31 March 1957; Dubai on 14 June 1963; Abu Dhabi on 29 March 1964; finally Muscat on 29 April 1966.
- Dates
- 1948 – 1966
- Currency
- (1948) 12 pies = 1 anna; 16 annas = 1 rupee
- (1957) 100 naye paise = 1 rupee
- Main Article Needed
British Post Offices Abroad edit
- Main Article Needed
British Post Offices in the Turkish Empire edit
- Main Article Needed
British Regional Issues edit
British Solomon Islands edit
- Refer
- Solomon Islands
British Somaliland edit
- Refer
- Somaliland Protectorate
British South Africa Company edit
In 1924, the territory was divided into Northern and Southern Rhodesia.
- Main Article Needed
- See also
- Rhodesia
British Virgin Islands edit
- Includes
- Virgin Islands
- See also
- Leeward Islands
British Zone edit
No separate issues. From 1945 to 1949, always used the same stamps as the American Zone.
References edit
Bibliography edit
- Stanley Gibbons Ltd, Europe and Colonies 1970, Stanley Gibbons Ltd, 1969
- Stanley Gibbons Ltd, various catalogues
- Stuart Rossiter & John Flower, The Stamp Atlas, W H Smith, 1989
- XLCR Stamp Finder and Collector's Dictionary, Thomas Cliffe Ltd, c.1960