5c Annam & Tonkin overprint cancelled at Hanoi .
4c stamp of 1907, depicting Annamite female child. This is a view of the postage stamps and postal history of Indochina .
beginning stamps [edit ]
The postage stamps of french Indochina begin on May 16, 1886, with the overprint of “ 5 ” or “ 5 C. CH. ” on the generic stamps of the french Colonies, for use in Cochinchina ( chiefly Saigon ). [ 1 ]
On January 21, 1888, stamps crudely overprinted A & T ( meaning Annam & Tonkin ), along with a “ 1 ” or “ 5 ”, and besides on the generic colonies stamps, were issued for those territories. The case at correctly was cancelled at Hanoi ( spelled “ HA-NOI ” ) in Tonkin, on 17 March 1888. [ 2 ] The 1889 fusion of colonial administration first resulted in surcharges in January 1889, on the 35c french Colonies tender, reading INDO-CHINE 89 / 5 / R D ( 8 January ) and INDO-CHINE / 1889 / R – D ( 10 January ), where the “ R ” referred to the colonial governor P. Richaud, and the “ D ” to the postmaster at Saigon, General P. Demars. The example illustrated at right was cancelled at Vinh Long, a town of the Mekong Delta, on 4 April 1889, good a few months after the seal was issued. [ 3 ]
first regular stamps [edit ]
In 1892 the first five regular stamps of Indochina were issued as partially of the standard Navigation and Commerce, and inscribed INDO-CHINE. Three succeeding ones were issued in 1900, and two in 1902 – all in the lapp basic blueprint with different colors.
inscription of INDO-CHINE in the typical blank box at the bottomland was replaced with printing of INDO-CHINE FRANCAISE from the definite stamps issued in 1904. subsequent issues included an attractive and artistic set featuring native women ( 1907 ), a surcharge fructify of 1919 necessitated by the conversion from centimes and francs to cents and piasters in the previous class, and a reprinted arrange valued in the new currency, starting with a 1/10-cent denomination. Sets featuring local anesthetic sights appeared in 1927, 1931, and in 1936 depicting cultural views like a farmer plowing the ground or constructions, Apsara, and native emperors of Annam and Cambodie. They are followed by a assortment of commemoratives honoring luminary figures, up to a last airmail offspring June 13, 1949, which was issued in only small numbers due to the growing rebellion.
A issue of the 1940s issues were later overprinted and used by the Viet Minh
See besides [edit ]
Sources [edit ]
References [edit ]
further read [edit ]
- Berbain, A. Note sur le service postal, télégraphique et télephonique de l’Indochine. Hanoi-Haiphong: Imp. d’Extrême-Orient, 1923 25p.
- Despierres, René. PTT service in Indochina: from its origins until 1940; translated into english by Marie-Hélène Arnauld. Arlington: Society of Indo-China Philatelists, 2015 45p.
- Desrousseaux, Jacques. Les Cachets civils de L’Indochine française, les postes françaises en Extrême-Orient. Paris: The Author, 1971 80p.
- Grabowski, Edward J. J. Indochina and French offices in China: use and nonuse of the French colonial allegorical group type & Indochina military mail between 1893 and 1905. 2008, 75p.
- Lemerle, Laurent. La France d’outre-mer par ses timbres: Tome III, Indochine, Océanie. Paris: Éd. Timbropresse, 2005 ISBN 2-908101-14-9 158p.
