Postage stamps and postal history of Senegal

This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Senegal.

Senegal is a country south of the Sénégal River in western Africa. It is externally bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, and Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the south; internally it almost completely surrounds the Gambia, namely on the north, east and south, exempting Gambia's short Atlantic Ocean coastline.

First stamps

A 1914 stamp of Senegal.
A 1892 stamp of Senegal on a postcard cancelled at St. Louis.

The first stamps of Senegal were issued in 1887. Before that general issues for the French Colonies were used.[1][2]

French West Africa

The last issue of French West Africa was the Stamp Day issue on March 21, 1959, which was inscribed "CF" along with "Dakar-Abidjan" and used only in Ivory Coast and Senegal.

Mali Federation


Republic


See also

References

  1. ↑ Rossiter, Stuart & John Flower. The Stamp Atlas. London: Macdonald, 1986, pp.315-316. ISBN 0-356-10862-7
  2. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20180303060628/http://www.stampworldhistory.com:80/country-profiles-2/africa/senegal/ Retrieved 12 August 2018.


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