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A historic collection of 234 Djibouti postage stamps
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Year: 1938
Afar and Somali Warriors - 35 centime
This regular postage issue from the Côte Française des Somalis (French Somaliland) highlights the nomadic cultural heritage and martial customs of the regional population by profiling a group of traditional warriors. The intricate line-engraving captures three men in traditional attire, including draped shoulder robes and waistcloths, displaying ancestral weaponry that includes long throwing spears, a curved defensive dagger (gile) tucked at the waist, and a prominent, circular hardened-leather buckler shield held by the central kneeling figure. In the lower background corners, the design hints at the territory's economic landscape, juxtaposing a coastal lighthouse and maritime port on the left with a desert caravan and a camel on the right. Historically, this 1940s definitive release archives the deep-seated pastoralist and warrior traditions of the indigenous Afar and Issa Somali groups who traversed the strategic desert corridors surrounding the Gulf of Tadjoura, using meticulous ethnographic portraiture to project territorial identity across the global mail network.
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The Outpost at Khor Angar - 50 centime
The Danakil Desert Settlements - 30 centime
The Danakil Desert Settlements - 30 centime
The Danakil Desert Settlements - 10 centime
Fulfillment of the Kufra Oath The Liberation of Strasbourg
The Triumphant Liberation of Paris
The Normandy Landings
The Tunisian Campaign - Piercing the Mareth Line
The Battle of Kufra and the Oath of Free France
The Free French Epic From Chad to the Rhine
First Anniversary of Allied Victory in World War II
Memorial of Félix Éboué and the Rallying of the Colonial Empire - 25 franc
Memorial of Félix Éboué and the Rallying of the Colonial Empire - 2 franc
Governor Léonce Lagarde - 1.5 franc
Afar and Somali Warriors - 50 centime
historic Hamoudi Mosque in Djibouti - 40 centime
The Free French Resistance
Capital Transfer from Obock to Djibouti - 4 franc
Capital Transfer from Obock to Djibouti - 1.5 franc
The Franco-Ethiopian Railway - 20 franc
The Franco-Ethiopian Railway - 10 franc
The Franco-Ethiopian Railway - 5 franc
The Franco-Ethiopian Railway - 4 franc
