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A historic collection of 317 Mauritania postage stamps
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Year: 1940
Airmail Airplane over Landscape - 4.9 franc
This airmail stamp celebrates the expansion of aerial postal links across the African continent, featuring a twin-engine propeller airplane flying gracefully over a tropical West African landscape. The central illustration depicts local inhabitants amidst banana and palm trees watching the aircraft from the ground, carrying a powerful symbolic message of technological progress, modernization, and the shrinking of vast geographic distances through innovative transportation. Issued under the federation of French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Française), this stamp reflects a critical period in Mauritania's history when air transport began breaking the isolation of remote Saharan and sub-Saharan territories. By combining traditional local life with the cutting-edge technology of aviation, the French Republic ("RF") postal administration highlighted the integration of Mauritania into a fast-evolving regional communications network, bridging ancient desert trade domains with the modern world.
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Date Harvesting
Pastoral Well
10th Anniversary of the CCTA
Proclamation of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
Nomadic Encampment - 1 franc
Nomadic Encampment - 60 centime
Warriors on Dromedary (Camelus dromedarius)- 50 centime
Warriors on Dromedary (Camelus dromedarius)- 40 centime
Mauritanie Definitives - Man on Dromedary
Mauritanie Definitives - Man on Dromedary
Imperial Fortnight
Protection of Childhood - Nurse Weighing Baby
Indigenous Child Protection - Dispensary at Mopti
Dakar Maternity Hospital
Caravan and Airplane - 50 franc
Caravan and Airplane - 20 franc
Caravan and Airplane - 10 franc
Twin-engine Airplane - 5 franc
Twin-engine Airplane - 3 franc
Twin-engine Airplane - 2 franc
Twin-engine Airplane - 0.5 franc
Twin-engine Airplane - 1 franc
Mauritanie Definitives - Man on Dromedary
