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A historic collection of 317 Mauritania postage stamps
✨ Discovery of the day
Year: 1942
Twin-engine Airplane - 2 franc
This airmail stamp highlights the modernization of transport and postal communications within French West Africa (AOF), framing Mauritania as an active link in the imperial aviation network. The central illustration depicts a dynamic, front-facing twin-engine propeller airplane ascending over a landscape characterized by tropical trees and airfield buildings. This imagery carries a powerful message of technological progress, speed, and the shrinking of vast geographic distances under the umbrella of colonial administrative infrastructure. For Mauritania, a territory largely defined by its immense and challenging desert expanses, the introduction of regular air post symbolized a structural transition from slow overland routes to modern, rapid connectivity with the rest of the West African federation and metropolitan France.
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Ostrich (Struthio camelus)
Great White Egret (Ardea alba)
Grey Crowned Crane (Balearica regulorum)
Dromedary (Camelus dromedarius)
African Monarch (Danaus chrysippus)
Diadem or Danaid Eggly (Hypolimnas misippus)
Crimson Tip (Colotis danae)
Common Figtree Blue (Myrina silenus)
Dark Chanting-goshawk (Melierax metabates)
Reed Cormorant (Microcarbo africanus)
Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse (Pterocles lichtensteinii)
Little Stint (Calidris minuta)
Arabian Bustard (Ardeotis arabs)
Paradise Wydah (Steganura paradisea)
Red-legged Partridge (Alectoris rufa)
White Stork (Ciconia ciconia)
Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
Black Stork (Ciconia nigra)
Guineafowl
Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata)
Great Snipe (Gallinago media)
Variable Sunbird (Cinnyris venustus)
Eurasian Golden Oriole
