Postage Due Stamp - Postage Due 1962 - Red-fronted Gazelle (Gazella rufifrons) - Upper Volta 1962 - Michel Burkina Faso P21 - my hobby

Postage Due Stamp - Postage Due 1962 - Red-fronted Gazelle (Gazella rufifrons) - Upper Volta 1962 - Michel Burkina Faso P21 - my hobby.

Greetings friends!

The story about the next postage stamp could be called - "The story of one deception".

Yes, when I bought this postage stamp I was deceived.

Then, in 1985, I was 12 years old, and I knew little about postage stamps, but I wanted to create a collection of postage stamps from the colonial era.

On Saturdays and Sundays, philatelists gathered in the Chisinau Palace of Trade Unions.

Experienced, seasoned wolves of philately, overlaid from all sides with catalogs and stockbooks with postage stamps.

I found out who has stamps on this subject and went to him.

I doubt he didn't know this postage stamp wasn't from the colonial period, but he sold it to me.

Today, thanks to this, you can avoid some mistakes when buying postage stamps.

As you can see, this postage stamp Red-fronted Gazelle (Gazella rufifrons) has the name of the country, "Upper Volta", but not the year of issue.

In fact, this is not a postage stamp, but a Postage Due Stamp, which makes it possible to send a letter with payment from the recipient of the letter.

Upper Volta was indeed a French colony, but what is the deception?

The fact is that the history of this small country in the heart of the African continent should be divided into several stages.

Colonial stage, 1919 -1932. In 1932, Upper Volta disappeared from the world map and the colony of Upper Sudan appeared.

Then, in 1947, Upper Sudan disappeared and, again, gave way to Upper Volta. It's like riding a swing.

Yes, until 1958, Upper Volta was a French colony, and in 1958, it became an autonomous republic within the French Union.

Two years later, in 1960, Upper Volta gained independence and ceased to be a colony country.

Now, since 1984, we know this country as Burkina Faso.

So, this Postage Due Stamp in denomination 1 CFA - West African CFA franc was issued in 1962, which means that this was already a period of independence for the country, called Upper Volta, and it has nothing to do with the period of the colonial era.

In schools, we did not study the history of African and many other countries, but, postage stamps, allow you to expand your horizons.

If your children don't like subjects - history and geography, present them with postage stamps, philately, this is a good incentive to learn something new.

Description of the postage stamp:

Type: Postage Due Stamp.
Country: Central African Republic.
Subject: #Fauna, #Animals, #Gazelles, #Antelopes, #Mammals, #Africa.
Series:Postage Due 1962.
Name: Red-fronted Gazelle (Gazella rufifrons).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 1 CFA - West African CFA franc.
Michel's Burkina Faso catalog code: P21.
Episode release date: January 31, 1962.
Printing technology: Typography.
Circulation: ? copies.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.12 - $ 0.14.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Clean Postage Due Stamp:

Important!

1. Please note that the cost of shipping postage stamps to other countries can be many times more expensive than the postage stamp itself, approximately $ 5.5.

2. I see that it is not profitable to purchase one postage stamp if, suddenly, you need to replenish your collection. It is always more profitable to purchase the entire series, and, surplus, to change, or sell.

3. If you decide to buy a postage stamp online, be careful. sometimes sellers use stock images. But this option is unacceptable. You need to see exactly the product that you are buying.

4. If you are afraid that the postage stamp sellers will want to deceive you, you are doing the right thing, do not doubt it.

5. To get started with this hobby, buy a good magnifying glass, tweezers with flat and thin edges and a stockbook for postage stamps, they will come in handy.

6. When buying postage stamps, pay special attention to the back of the postage stamp. The adhesive layer must not be damaged.

7. There is such an expression - How many people, so many opinions, this also applies to sellers of postage stamps. Each of them believes that his postage stamp is in perfect condition, but only you yourself can find the perfect postage stamp for yourself.

8. Sometimes, a small, white scrap of paper with a round stamp on it and a number inscribed in the center circle can be a very valuable postage stamp from the days when postage stamps were not printed.

9. The cost of a postage stamp is determined by supply and demand, but usually in catalogs you can see the estimated cost of a postage stamp in Pounds Sterling.

10. In terms of quality, postage stamps can be divided into three groups: used postage stamps that were pasted on and removed from the envelope, canceled postage stamps that were canceled at the post office, by order and sent for sale, and clean, uncanceled postage stamps. As you can imagine, these three types of postage stamps, their conditions, greatly affect their value.

11. Before buying stamps, learn more about the country they belong to. This will avoid some mistakes.

To be continued.

You can see the development of the story of my postage stamp collection on my Leofinance blog

I edited a photo in the program PhotoDirector, which I also installed on my smartphone.

Author @barski
Ukraine

For my publications, I do not use stock photographs, it is fundamentally important for me to use photographs that I have made with my own hands for publication and I can name them - authorial work.

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