Compendium of postage stamp issuers (Brit - British)

Each "article" in this category is in fact a collection of entries about several stamp issuers, presented in alphabetical order. The entries themselves are formulated on the micro model and so provide summary information about all known issuers.

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Britain

;Refer : Great Britain

British Administration Issues

;Refer : Eritrea (British Administration);: Somalia (British Administration);: Tripolitania (British Military Administration)

British Antarctic Territory

;Dates : 1963 -;Currency : (1963) 12 pence = 1 shilling, 20 shillings = 1 pound: (1971) 100 pence = 1 pound

;See also : Falkland Islands Dependencies;: South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands

British Bechuanaland

Territory in southern Africa which was separated from Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana)by the Molopo river. British Bechuanaland became a British colony on 30 September 1885 but was added to Cape Colony on 16 November 1895. It is now the northern part of Cape Province inSouth Africa.

The first stamps issued were Cape of Good Hope types with an overprint. Specific types wereissued in 1887 but subsequently there were further British and Cape types with overprints.Cape of Good Hope stamps were introduced to British Bechuanaland in 1895 but, conversely,British Bechuanaland types were retained for use in the neighbouring Bechuanaland Protectoratefrom 1890 to 1897.

;Dates : 1885 - 1897;Capital : Mafeking;Currency : 12 pence = 1 shilling, 20 shillings = 1 pound

;Refer : Cape of Good Hope

;See also : Bechuanaland Protectorate

British Central Africa

;Dates : 1891 - 1908;Capital : Zomba;Currency : 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound

;See also : Malawi;: Nyasaland Protectorate

British Columbia

;Dates : 1865 - 1868;Capital : Vancouver;Currency : (1865) 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound: (1868) 100 cents = 1 dollar

;Refer : Canadian Provinces

British Columbia & Vancouver Island

;Dates : 1860 only;Capital : Vancouver;Currency : 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound

;Refer : Canadian Provinces

British Commonwealth Occupation of Japan

;Refer : Japan (British Commonwealth Occupation)

British Consular Mail

;Refer : Madagascar (British Consular Mail)

British East Africa

;Dates : 1895 - 1903;Capital : Nairobi;Currency : 16 annas = 1 rupee

;Includes : British East Africa Company;: East Africa & Uganda Protectorates;: Uganda Protectorate

;See also : Kenya Uganda & Tanzania (Combined Issues)

British East Africa Company

;Dates : 1890 - 1895;Currency : 16 annas = 1 rupee

;Refer : British East Africa

British Field Office in Salonika

;Refer : Salonika (British Field Office)

British Forces in Egypt

;Refer : Egypt (British Forces)

British Guiana

;Dates : 1850 - 1966;Capital : Georgetown;Currency : 100 cents = 1 dollar

;See also : Guyana

British Honduras

;Dates : 1866 - 1973;Capital : Belize;Currency : (1866) 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound: (1888) 100 cents = 1 dollar

;Main Article Needed:

;See also : Belize

British Indian Ocean Territory

;Dates : 1868 - 1976;Capital : Victoria (on Mahe, Seychelles);Currency : 100 cents = 1 rupee

;Main Article Needed:

;See also : Seychelles;: Zil Elwannyen Sesel

British Levant

;Refer : British Post Offices in the Turkish Empire

British Middle East Forces

;Refer : Middle East Forces

British Military Administration Issues (BMA)

;Refer : Eritrea (British Military Administration);: Malaya (British Military Administration);: North Borneo (British Military Administration);: Sarawak (British Military Administration);: Somalia (British Military Administration);: Tripolitania (British Military Administration)

British New Guinea

;Dates : 1901 - 1906;Capital : Port Moresby;Currency : 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound

;Refer : Papua New Guinea

British Occupation Issues

;Main Article Needed:

;Includes : Baghdad (British Occupation);: Batum (British Occupation);: Bushire (British Occupation);: Cameroons (British Occupation);: East Africa Forces;: German East Africa (British Occupation);: Iraq (British Occupation);: Japan (British Commonwealth Occupation);: Long Island (British Occupation);: Mafia Island (British Occupation)

;See also : BA/BMA Issues;: Egypt (British Forces);: Germany (Allied Occupation);: Middle East Forces;: Togo (Anglo-French Occupation)

British Occupation of Italian Colonies

;Refer : BA/BMA Issues;: East Africa Forces;: Middle East Forces

British Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia

British stamps overprinted with Indian currency; used in Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Kuwait,Muscat and Qatar.

Muscat and Dubai relied on Indian postal administration until 1 April 1948 when the Britishagencies were established. Two agencies were opened in Qatar: at Doha (August 1950) and UmmSaid (February 1956). In Abu Dhabi, an agency was opened on Das Island in December 1960 andin Abu Dhabi City on 30 March 1963. The agencies also supplied stamps to Bahrain until 1960;and to Kuwait during shortages in 1951-1953.

The agency in Dubai issued the Trucial States stamps on 7 January 1961.

As each state took over its own postal administration, the offices closed. Closure dates were:Qatar on 31 March 1957; Dubai on 14 June 1963; Abu Dhabi on 29 March 1964; finally Muscat on29 April 1966.

;Dates : 1948 - 1966;Currency : (1948) 12 pies = 1 anna; 16 annas = 1 rupee: (1957) 100 naye paise = 1 rupee

;Main Article Needed:

;See also : Abu Dhabi;: Bahrain;: Dubai;: Kuwait;: Muscat;: Qatar;: Trucial States

British Post Offices Abroad

;Main Article Needed:

;Includes : Bangkok (British Post Office);: China (British Post Offices);: China (British Railway Administration);: Crete (British Post Offices);: Japan (British Post Offices);: Madagascar (British Consular Mail)

;See also : British Post Offices in the Turkish Empire;: Morocco Agencies;: Tangier

British Post Offices in the Turkish Empire

;Dates : 1885 - 1923;Currency : 40 paras = 1 piastre

;Main Article Needed:

;Includes : Beirut (British Post Office);: Salonika (British Field Office)

British Regional Issues

;Refer : Great Britain (Regional Issues)

British Solomon Islands

;Dates : 1907 - 1975;Capital : Honiara;Currency : 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound

;Refer : Solomon Islands

British Somaliland

;Dates : 1903 only;Capital : Berbera;Currency : 16 annas = 1 rupee

;Refer : Somaliland Protectorate

British South Africa Company

In 1924, the territory was divided into Northern and Southern Rhodesia.

;Dates : 1890 - 1924;Currency : 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound

;Main Article Needed:

;See also : Rhodesia

British Virgin Islands

;Dates : 1968 -;Capital : Road Town;Currency : 100 cents = 1 dollar

;Main Article Needed:

;Includes : Virgin Islands

;See also : Leeward Islands

British Zone

No separate issues. From 1945-1949, always used the same stamps as the American Zone.

;Refer : American, British & Russian Zones (General Issues);: Anglo-American Zones (Civil Government);: Anglo-American Zones (Military Government)

Sources

* Stanley Gibbons Ltd: various catalogues
* [http://www.jl.sl.btinternet.co.uk/stampsite/home.html Encyclopaedia of Postal History]
* Stuart Rossiter & John Flower: "The Stamp Atlas"