Welcome to Mauritania Stamps
A historic collection of 317 Mauritania postage stamps
✨ Discovery of the day
Year: 1960
Blacksmith
This definitive stamp highlights Mauritania's historic caste of skilled artisans and traditional manufacturing techniques by focusing on a blacksmith (forgeron). The design depicts a craftsman seated cross-legged on the ground, intently using a traditional pump drill to bore into a piece of material, with a classic desert encampment faintly visible on the horizon. This illustration carries a powerful message of manual precision, technical mastery, and economic self-reliance, honoring the vital social and utilitarian role that metalworkers and woodworkers have historically fulfilled within Saharan communities. Within the Mauritanian cultural context, the stamp celebrates the resilience of indigenous crafts, elevating these age-old, generational trade secrets as key components of the new republic's material heritage and national identity.
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Chest from Mederdra
Damascened Dagger
Tobacco Pouch and Pipe
Tea Service Set
Traditional Musicians
Tidinit
Tobul
Hardine (Traditional Musical Instrument)
Traditional Geometric Mosaic - 25 franc
Traditional Geometric Mosaic - 20 franc
Traditional Geometric Mosaic - 15 franc
Traditional Geometric Mosaic - 10 franc
Traditional Geometric Mosaic - 5 franc
Traditional Geometric Mosaic - 2 franc
Traditional Geometric Mosaic - 1 franc
Cross of Trarza - 200 franc
Cross of Trarza - 100 franc
Cross of Trarza - 50 franc
Cross of Trarza - 30 franc
Cross of Trarza - 25 franc
Cross of Trarza - 20 franc
Cross of Trarza - 15 franc
Cross of Trarza - 10 franc
