The colony · 1787–1895

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What the colony and the country chose to put on their letters.

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Fourpence, Queen Victoria 1876
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1876ca 1d Sierra Leone unused Yv11 Mi3B SG17 rose-red 1876
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1876ca 1sh Sierra Leone unused Yv17 Mi7B SG22 green 1876
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1876ca 3half Sierra Leone unused Yv12 Mi9 SG18 lilac 1876
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1884ca 2d Sierra Leone unused Yv23 Mi16 SG30 grey 1884
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1888ca 1sh Sierra Leone used Yv28 Mi21 SG34 red-brown 1888
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1889ca 3d Sierra Leone B31 Yv25 Mi18 SG32 yellow 1889
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1876ca 2d Sierra Leone unused Yv13 Mi4B SG19 magenta Issued 1876
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1876ca 3d Sierra Leone unused Yv14 Mi5B SG20 buff Issued 1876
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The colony · 1787–1895

Stamps

9 items

What the colony and the country chose to put on their letters.

← The colony

Many were made by colonial officials, missionaries and foreign visitors. Titles and descriptions come from the collections that hold them and can carry the attitudes and language of their time. We show them as historical records, not as endorsements. Dates, eras and categories were assigned automatically from those records and some will be wrong. If you or your family appear in a picture, you hold rights to one, a detail is wrong, or you think a picture should not be here, press “Report this picture” under it: your note reaches our editors with the picture attached, and they can take it down straight away. You can also write to hello@dt-ets.com.