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    Collecting France’s Empire

    Jun 10, 2022 5 minutes

    It has become de rigour when writing about French Colonies stamps for the popular collecting press in Britain or North America nowadays to begin with a reminiscence on the pleasures of a juvenile treat. The delight came from opening and rummaging through a half crown envelope or a $1 bulk pack of those colourful French memory-joggers back in the late-Forties to early Sixties.

    Allow me to uphold the tradition by recalling the thrill of thrusting my own stamp tweezers into an eagerly opened bargain package and withdrawing an all-action image of a pair of Togolese archers bringing down a full-grown water buffalo that had charged them with horns as deadly as their arrows.

    Or perhaps the tweezers extracted an Ivory Coast specimen depicting a camel train

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