Help - Looking For Stamps That Have A Map Of Africa On Them

Hey fellow SCFers

Hope you can help

Am looking for details of stamps that have been issued by African Countries that actually have a map of Africa on them

Any help (and pictures) would be very much appreciated

Thanking you very much in advance for your help

Hi Huckles. What sort of a map are you looking for?

Many African countries have maps of their own country:





Maps of all of Africa are sometimes in symbols:





Or are you after anything with any part of an African map on it?





Happy hunting.

Just looked on ebay and seller david_crocker in South Africa
http://myworld.ebay.com/david_crocker
has these up:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/South-Afric...em5d300a9e54
South Africa - Bophuthatswana 'Old Maps of Africa' series: the first issue (1991) set of four


http://www.ebay.com/itm/South-Afric...em5d300a9e87
South Africa - Bophuthatswana: Old Maps of Africa series - 1992 (second issue) set of four, mnh. Features maps by Fracanzano (1508) and Waldseemuller (1513) plus a wood-cut by the latter of 1516 and a geographical map by Laurent Fries (1522).


http://www.ebay.com/itm/South-Afric...em5d300b0164
South Africa - Bophuthatswana 1993 Old African Maps - set of four


South Africa 1973

From Delcampe http://www.delcampe.net

Sudan 1989


Egypt 1984


South Africa 1970's approx.


Senegal 1977


Egypt 1964


Kenya 1977 (?)


Egypt 1994 very nice cover, stamp, cancel and cachet


Nice millennium stamp
South Africa 2000


Last one for tonight is cool as I collect hexagons and wasn't aware of this one before now!
Belgium Congo 1960, set of two


Three more pages on Delcampe available, search for 'africa map' is all I did.

Hardly recognisable.

map of Africa 1488

Ya gotta love SCF - thanks everyone - sorry I should have been a bit specific - full map of Africa is what I am looking for - please keep them coming

Nigeria, Ethiopia & Hungary (cinderella, charity label, don`t know, it` says: `solidarity with afro-asian nations`)



ooops, third not issued by African country, sorry.

When I first read your post, two came to mind
(the bizarre ones of course :)

One is of a map of africa, drawn so it makes the face of an indigenous woman, a brilliant design for mine,
but I cannot recall from whence it came...very irritating.

The other was of an "upside down africa" now that one
I have cracked,

It is from switzerland, curiously, and when I first saw this stamp
it had me puzzled
Like everyone who first sees this stamp,
you think you have discovered an error
see what you think....

well i

started out to scan 3 of these...one is gone and I guarantee I will never see it again!

Sorry to hear that the lost stamp gremlin struck Phil. He's obviously been talking to the lost sock gremlin.

Thanks for the scan though. This set also comes with an overprint.

The story about the Swiss stamp can be found here (on page 16):

http://www.post.ch/philatelie/en/ph...-2005-01.pdf

I love the way that you can find a wealth of information here.



Thanks 22crows

That is one amazing design concept.

How 22crows finds these things is amazing too.

Speaking of maps, I have a nice large Peters Projection Map on the wall in my office.

It's a great conversation starter for folks walking into my office. I mention it because it really changed my perception of the Africa. The Peters map is controversial in some circles, but is supposed to give a more accurate picture of area and size of the continents.

http://www.petersmap.com/table.html

Be sure and look at the slide "Africa compared to the Former Soviet Union"

KirkS

That Peters projection map is really eye opening. Hadn't seen it before.

Here is a map from the site

this was the stamp I had in mind to show...France and former French colonies issued a series !