Bud's Observations
BB’s Algeria
selection follows a familiar pattern for countries connected with France:
1-- Initially
French stamps are used with only cancels to identify their country of origin
(BB has none for Algeria),
2-- These are followed by French stamps overprinted
with the dependent country’s name (Algeria, page 1, rows one and two),
3-- Then
come stamps of obvious French design, but with the country’s name inscribed (the
rest of page 1),
4-- And finally, usually in the 1930s, comes a shift to larger
stamps with scenic, cultural and political characteristics of the country (the
rest of the Algeria BB pages, except the postage due sections). All bear the RF
insignia or “Republique Francaise”. Algeria’s stamps show greater variety of
subject matter in the 1930s than those of most French colonies.
I found
Algeria easy to collect. It was the first African nation completed in my album.
Census: 114
in BB spaces, eight tipped in, 47 on supplement pages.
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