Postage stamps and postal history of the Nyasaland Protectorate

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The 1949 U.P.U. set of the Nyasaland Protectorate. Nyasaland 1949 Mi 89-92 stamps (75th anniversary of the UPU).jpg
The 1949 U.P.U. set of the Nyasaland Protectorate.

On 6 July 1907 the British Central Africa Protectorate became the Nyasaland Protectorate and its first stamps were issued on 22 July 1908. [1]

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Stamps were marked Nyasaland Protectorate and later just Nyasaland. From 1953 to 1963 Nyasaland was united with Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia and used stamps of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Nyasaland resumed issuing stamps in 1963 before becoming independent. After independence in 1964, stamps were marked Malawi. [1] [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue: Commonwealth and British Empire Stamps 1840-1970. 112th edition. London: Stanley Gibbons, 2010, pp. 472-474. ISBN   0852597312
  2. "Nyasaland | Stamps and postal history | StampWorldHistory". Archived from the original on 2018-03-03. Retrieved 12 August 2018.[ title missing ]

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