Welcome to Mauritania Stamps
A historic collection of 317 Mauritania postage stamps
✨ Discovery of the day
Year: 1940
Nomadic Encampment - 70 centime
This definitive stamp honors the social and domestic fabric of Saharan life by depicting a bustling nomadic encampment (frik) in the Mauritanian desert. The detailed line engraving illustrates an extended family gathered around a traditional tent structure, featuring women engaged in domestic work—including one carrying a basket on her head—alongside a kneeling dromedary being tended to, which carries a powerful message of community resilience, shared labor, and deep-rooted pastoral traditions. Produced under the federation of French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Française), this issue reflects a colonial-era philatelic effort to document the authentic cultural landscapes and daily survival strategies of the Saharan interior. By elevating this intimate domestic scene onto an official postage stamp, the program celebrates the central role of family and livestock management in sustaining Mauritania's nomadic identity across the arid Saharan expanses.
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Ostrich (Struthio camelus)
Great White Egret (Ardea alba)
Grey Crowned Crane (Balearica regulorum)
1968 Olympic Games: Grenoble and Mexico City - 100 CFA
1968 Olympic Games: Grenoble and Mexico City - 40 CFA
1968 Olympic Games: Grenoble and Mexico City - 30 CFA
1968 Olympic Games: Grenoble and Mexico City - 20 CFA
20th Anniversary of UNESCO
Second Anniversary of EUROPAFRIQUE
Dromedary (Camelus dromedarius)
Copper Pitcher from Adrar
Rock Art of Teness, Adrar
Saharan Heritage
African Monarch (Danaus chrysippus)
Diadem or Danaid Eggly (Hypolimnas misippus)
Crimson Tip (Colotis danae)
Common Figtree Blue (Myrina silenus)
150th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Méduse
Introduction of Air Afrique DC-8F Service
Blepharis linariifolia
Pancratium trianthum
Grewia bicolor
Ipomoea asarifolia
