Sharing My Small French Colonies Collection

I always liked the French colonies stamps, their motifs and beauty and, of course, since most of them are beautifully engraved and very attractive. I can't collect all of them since the several thousands stamps issued for use in all colonies and departments together. So I decided to collect from each colony and French territory only one set representing it, usually I chose a set shows the people and their culture or a set shows the nature or landscape of the area. With time I built a small collection and keep it on album pages I created. Here I want to share my collection.

Note: except French Indochina that I collect complete since the stamps were in use in Laos before independence.

French Equatorial Africa - 1947

Stunner! Let's see some more :)

Thank you very much, Ringo! the next set is from French Cameroon issued in 1946:

French West Africa - Guinea - Long set of 22 stamps issued 1938:

French West Africa - Dahomey, 1941:

Togo - 1941

Wow. Beautiful. Very nice collection.

I would hardly describe your collections as small.

Very nice LaoPhil! How are you making those album pages?

Thanks Mrita75! I also went through your Mexico wonderful pages, great collection!!

angore, it is small relatively to the thousands stamps issued for the colonies. The collection includes one set from each colony and they all occupied 46 album pages (just to comparison, my French Indochina, one of the colonies, collection which is almost complete is on 40 pages!)

canyoneer, yes, I create my own album pages using Microsoft Publisher.

Here is a set representing Senegal issued 1939:

Very nice collection and very nice pages! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you very much, chris2015!

Here is a set issued for use in French West Africa (AOF) in 1947. Stamp designs are based on real photos:

Colony of Madagascar and Dependencies - 1946:

French West Africa - Ivory Coast, 1936:


Probably, the woman stamp based on this photo ((BTW, there is a mistake on the stamp description - It should be BAOULE):

French Sudan (Today State of Mali) - 1939: