Null Congo - Belge 1915: REC of Ruanda-Urundi in mixed franking with East Africa…

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Congo - Belge 1915: REC of Ruanda-Urundi in mixed franking with East African German - mixed frankings are rare

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Congo - Belge 1915: REC of Ruanda-Urundi in mixed franking with East African German - mixed frankings are rare

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CONGO FRANCAIS / CONGO BELGE - ISSUE in 1960 of an AERIAL POST TIMBER in LEOPOLDVILLE (mentioned in Yvert et Tellier). History: during the 2nd week of independence of "CONGO-LEO", in view of the looting & violence perpetrated against Europeans, there was a massive flight of Belgian citizens and the postal services in Leopoldville were completely disorganized. To compensate for the lack of stamps, the first issue of the former French Congo's independence stamp "CONGO BRAZZAVILLE" (effigy of the Republic in the form of a black laurel girl) was overprinted with "COURRIER AERIEN FRANCAIS LEOPOLDVILLE JUILLET 1960". The franked letters were flown by private plane to Brazzaville and re-mailed by the Congolese post office. Text after Yvert & Tellier and article from "L'Echangiste Universel", May 1974. CONGO BRAZZA - Independence PRECURRENT AERIAL POST - Stamp no. 135 with provisional overprint "COURRIER AERIEN FRANCAIS LEOPOLDVILLE JUILLET 1960. cancelled.

Foreign medals

Estim. 300 - 500 EUR

James THIRIAR (1889-1965) Map of Belgian Congo Nova, description with legend Print on paper 1950-1960 Size: 109 x 80.5 cm

Estim. 3 000 - 3 200 EUR

TANZANIA - GERMAN EAST AFRICA under Wilhelm II (1888-1918) 15 Gold elephant rupees 1916 T = Tabora. (7,50 g) Rare. T.B. A somewhat crude emergency mintage by German troops facing an alliance of British and Belgian troops. A monetary workshop was set up in Tabora, now Tanzania, in a railway carriage, and only 9803 examples were minted. German East Africa was a German colony that extended over present-day Burundi, Rwanda and mainland Tanzania. Created in the 1880s, it was conquered by the British and Belgian armies during the First World War and fragmented at the end of the war into Ruanda-Urundi (Belgian Colonial Empire) and Tanganyika (British Empire). From a strategic point of view, although the Germans continued to fight until November 1918, the British controlled the towns of Dar es Salam and Tanga on the coast, and Tabora inland from March 1916, with Tanga not falling until July. At the same time, the entire railroad was under British control. By mid-1916, the almost defeated Germans were committing only guerrilla warfare in very isolated and unstrategic areas. The Treaty of Versailles divides up the German colony. Belgium receives Ruanda-Urundi and, in addition, the concession of a railroad line from the Belgian Congo to East Africa, through the former German colony to a free port on the Indian Ocean. Portugal obtained the Quionga triangle to the south of Rovuma, attached to present-day Mozambique, and Great Britain inherited the rest, i.e. the territory of present-day Tanzania, which it named Tanganyika, but without the archipelago of Zanzibar, which was given the status of a British protectorate. Expert: Françoise BERTHELOT-VINCHON

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