To be or not to be : CTO - The very obvious ones 03 b

The African continent is as much affected by CTO cancels as any other part of the world.
African countries are not commonly collected countrywise, but thematic, it's a beloved source for animals, landscapes, artefacts or local culture.
However, also here, most mint stamps are unfindable and most used stamps are CTO cancelled.

Some extra african issues :

Burundi

Upper Volta - now Burkina Faso

Upper-Volta - now Burkina Faso

Dahomey - now Benin

Niger

Tchad

Mali

Mauretania

Mauretania

Senegal

Odd stamps : 08 Stamps with special cuts - 02 d

In this second part of African triangular stamps, I have added other countries.
As you might have noticed, all of the triangular stamps are actually tax (revenue) stamps.
Maybe because they are easy to recognised, and they are different from the regular stamps.

Receiving nice stamps implies you have to pay extra :-)

I chose tax stamps of Cameroun, Dem. Republic of Congo, Mauretania, Mali, Gabon and Tchad.
This last set has a very nice set of prehistoric designs on stamps. Although, I think the rhinoceros or what it is supposed to be on the 0,50 F stamp is more like a modern design (looks like a childs design to me)