astrolabe, under the command of the frigate captain Stephen Cogantleaving Madagascar, he arrived in front of Mayotte on Friday, May 13, contenting himself with making circles in the water.
It’s time to pick up a few passengers and leave, and Nicolas Viala will use the Internet to send some photos and reproductions of his drawings. Direction: Glorious.
Mayotte, ceded to Madagascar, has belonged to France since 1841. A few years later, a postal service was established there.
The French possessions first used the “general issue” stamps of the French colonies (among others, the Eagle type, then the Non-perforated Group), and then, from 1892 to 1912, the Group’s colony stamps. type. , created by Louis-Eugene Mushon (1843-1914), where the name of the colony “Mayotte” is printed in a cartridge in different colors.
Meanwhile, other islands of the archipelago joined the colony: then came the stamps of the Sultanate of Anjouan (1892), Grand Comoros (1897) and, finally, Moheli (1906 and 1907).
From 1911, Mayotte used the stamps of Madagascar, and from 1950 to 1975 – the stamps “Archipelago of the Comoros”, in turn the French colony, and then the French overseas territory.
Ahmed Abdullah proclaims the independence of the Comoros in July 1975. Mayotte decides to stay French.
At that time, Mayotte had the status of a territorial community, but did not issue its own stamps, using metropolitan stamps (as in Reunion) until December 31, 1996.
Then, on January 2, 1997, the first stamps of the territorial community of Mayotte were released, according to a philatelic status similar to that of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, which has had its own stamps since 1985. – based on local cultural and historical themes. However, “Marianne” in mainland France remains used initially, in the overloaded version of “Mayotte”.
The symbol of this conversion – and the changeover to the euro in 2002 – the stamp with the coat of arms of Mayotte has two versions: one denomination of 3 francs signed “French Republic / Mayotte” in 1997, the other 0.46 euros “French Republic / Department of Mayotte” in 2002 year.
Many specialist dealers sell Mayotte brands of all periods, rarities that can reach several thousand euros. Important: Yvefrt and Tellier catalog “French colonies and French offices abroad” (2022).
New status of the department (101and and the fifth overseas department, acquired in 2011 (after the 2009 referendum) after Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique and Reunion, led Mayotta to abandon its own stamps to use those used in the French capital from 2 January 2012. year.
The last Mayotte stamp was issued on 31 December 2011 as part of a joint issue with the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (TAAF), representing Marion Dufresne in Mamuzu Lagoon, which the mission sailed into the Indian Ocean in April 2011 with a stop in Mayotte, while this vessel is more accustomed to rotation to the southern French islands. The program of the event, which was once told by the Nanterre Philatelic Association.
France, for its part, issued stamps in 1992 for 150and anniversary of the voluntary accession of Mayotte to France (1841-1991), and in 2011 on Mount Chungi, the most visited mountain on the island, with in the foreground a canoe floating near the baobab, Mayotte is the only French department that owns this entity …
Nicolas Vial and Astrolabe