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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Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
Black Stork (Ciconia nigra)
Guineafowl
Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata)
Great Snipe (Gallinago media)
Variable Sunbird (Cinnyris venustus)
Eurasian Golden Oriole
Garganey (Spatula querquedula)
Great White Pelican
Rüppell's Vulture (Gyps de ruppell)
Gray Crane (Grus grus)
Chameleon
Dorcas Gazelle
Crested Porcupine
Patas Monkeys
Aardvark
Antelopes
Leopard
Dromedary
Guinea Baboons
Cheetah
Spotted Hyena
Striped Hyena
