Colony and protectorate · 1896–1960

Stamps

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

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.

Twopence-halfpenny, cancelled at Freetown 1896
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One penny, cancelled at Freetown 1899
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One pound, Edward VII 1903
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Five shillings, centenary of the abolition of slavery 1933
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Coronation issue 1953
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The Cotton Tree, Freetown, twopence 1956
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A Bullom boat, one shilling 1956
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Cape Lighthouse, halfpenny 1956
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Whale Bay, York Village, sixpence 1956
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1896ca 6d Sierra Leone unused Yv16Ab Mi22c SG37 purple-lake 1896
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1903ca 2s Sierra Leone unused Yv59 SG83 1903
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1903ca 5sh Sierra Leone unused Yv60 SG84 1903
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Sierra Leone 1938 stamps 1938
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BR-SLE 1941 MiNr0145 pm B002 1941
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Sierra Leone 1949 Mi 171-174 stamps (75th anniversary of the UPU) 1949
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Sierra Leone 1949 Mi 171 stamp (75th anniversary of the UPU. Hermes, globe and transport) 1949
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Sierra Leone 1949 Mi 172 stamp (75th anniversary of the UPU. Hemispheres of Earth, airplane and paddle steamer) 1949
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Sierra Leone 1949 Mi 173 stamp (75th anniversary of the UPU. Hermes over globe) 1949
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Sierra Leone 1949 Mi 174 stamp (75th anniversary of the UPU. UPU Monument, Bern, Switzerland) 1949
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Colony and protectorate · 1896–1960

Stamps

20 items

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

← Colony and protectorate

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.