BRITISH GUIANA.
Definitive stamps.
Location map of Guiana in South America, and Queen Elizabeth II.
Fifth stamp in a set of 15, issued on 01.12.1954.
Face value: 5 Guyanese cents.
Printing: Recess.
Size: 34 x 28 mm.
Catalogs
- Michel No. 203.
- Scott No. 257.
- StampWorld No. 205.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 335.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 189.
British
Guiana was a colony, part of the mainland British West Indies,
on the northern coast of South America. The first European to encounter Guiana
was the English explorer Walter
Raleigh in 1595. The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle there,
starting in the early 17th century, when they founded the colonies of Essequibo and Berbice. The colonies were
officially ceded to the United Kingdom in 1814 and consolidated into a single
colony in 1831. In 1928 the British Government abolished the Dutch-influenced
constitution and replaced it with a Crown colony
constitution. The colony's capital was at Georgetown. Guyana became
independent of the United Kingdom on May 26, 1966.
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Thanks
to Daniel Mathieu for his contribution (http://lettresdumonde.blogspot.com/)
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