Algeria FDC's And Covers

Algerian 17th Century Brassware, issued on December 21, 1974. Stamps show water jug, coffee pot, sugar bowl and water boiler.


Traditional handworks, stamps depicting different artisans and their products, issued on November 8, 1981.

Children Drawings, issued on June 15, 1974.

Algiers mosque, issued on June 26, 1971.

Millennium of Al-Azhar university, Cairo, Egypt, issued on December 27, 1975.

Saharan museum, Ouargla, issued by February 10, 1977.

National Service, issued on April 21, 1973.

Four years plan, issued on February 16, 1974.

National Day of the Police, issued on June 1, 1975.

Algerian Constitution, issued on November 19, 1976.

The National Charter, issued on June 27, 1976.

Inauguration of the Institute of Technology, issued on April 24, 1971.


New Port of Skikda, issued on September 29, 1973.


Telecommunication through satellites, issued on June 28, 1975.


Centenary of the first telephone call, issued on February 21, 1976.

The 25th Anniversary of UNICEF, issued on December 4, 1971.


Millennium of the city of Algiers, issued on December 22, 1973.


The 4th Anniversary of the Summit Conference of Non-Aligned Countries, Algiers, issued on September 5, 1973.


Volontariat, students' volunteer service, issued on October 20, 1973.


Horizon to 1980, a decade of efforts, issued on November 23, 1974.


The 10th Anniversary of the Arab Labour Organization, issued on March 8, 1973.

Algerian traditional musical instruments, issued on February 17, 1968.



Algerian traditional musical instruments, issued on September 20, 1984.

Mohammed Racim (1896 – 1975) was an Algerian artist who founded the Algerian School for Miniature Painting with his brother, Omar. It still exists to this day. Algeria issued in 1965-1966 two colorful and very attractive sets show Racim's miniature paintings.

"Save Venice" Campaign by UNESCO, issued on January 24, 1972.


International Book Year, issued on April 15, 1972.


The 1st Anniversary of the Festival of Arab Youth, issued on July 5, 1972.


The 10th Anniversary of the Organization of African Unity, issued on May 26, 1973.


The 30th Anniversary of Setif, Guelma and Kherrata Massacres, issued on November 1, 1975.
The Setif, Guelma and Kherrata massacres or the massacres of 8 May 1945, was a series of massacres by French colonial authorities and pied-noir European settler militias on Algerian civilians in May and June 1945 around the towns of Setif and Guelma in French Algeria

The 2nd Anniversary of the Pan-African Commercial Fair, Algiers, issued on October 1, 1976.


Rehabilitation of the Blind, issued on October 21, 1976.


The 2nd Anniversary of the General Population and Housing Census, issued on January 27, 1977.

The 24th Anniversary of the World Scouting Congress, Nairobi, Kenya, issued on July 14, 1973.

The 1000th Anniversary of the Birth of Abu-al Rayhan al-Biruni, Mathematician and Philosopher (973-1050), issued on February 23, 1974.

Homage to Algerian Mothers, issued on April 5, 1974.

Algiers, Arab Cultural Capital, Maxicard issued on January 12, 2007.

Several commercial covers.

Pardon the delay but as promised sharing a few FDCs and a postal cover from Algeria. These were acquired as a swap with a postcrosser based in Algeria.

Below is the postal cover created when he sent some Algerian FDCs

And two first day covers

January 2024 - Honoring Algeria's Customs Officers

May 2024 - Honoring 50th Anniversary of Arab Inter-parliamentary Union

Animal Protection, issued on September 17, 1981.

- Mediterranean Monk Seal (Monachus monachus)
- Barbary Macaque (Macaca sylvanus)