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Danish West Indies Anguilla

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The Danish West Indies or Danish West Indies, is a former colony of Denmark in the Caribbean, known today as the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Company Danish West India and Guinea established on the island of St. Thomas in 1672, extending to the island of St. John in 1683 (annexation conflict with the United Kingdom until 1718), bought St. Croix and the French West India Company 15 June 1733. In 1754, the islands were sold to the King of Denmark, became royal Danish colonies.

During the Napoleonic Wars, the islands were occupied by the British, first in March 1801 until 27 March 1802 and December 1807 to November 20, 1815 where they were made in Denmark.

December 12, 1916, the islands were sold against 25 million U.S. dollars in the United States of America who were interested because of the strategic position near the Panama Canal. The Danish government officially ended March 31, 1917.

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3 cents, 1866

The first stamp of the Danish West Indies or Danish Antilles, in 1856. It is the same arms that the stamps from France, but so worth 3 ore (cents) and had a dark crimson color on yellowish paper. Burelage a yellow wavy line covers the stamp. 1866 was a printing on white paper with a change of direction burelage and in 1872 the stamps were perforated. In 1873 a new face value of 4c was produced in matte blue.

1874 has seen the first series like those in Denmark from 1c to 50c, all were bicolored. Some denominations are small tumble. Inevitably

for small remote settlements, the Danish West Indies have failed periodically popular, and the colonial administration had to improvise. A surcharge of 1c has been printed on 7c in 1887, and a surcharge of 10c on 50c in 1895. A series of additional supply new colors arrived between 1896 and 1901.

The 1c and 5c of one color were produced in 1900 to meet the regulations of the Postal Union Universal. Shortages of 2c and 8c led to more overload in 1902, corrected the following year by a series of drawings using the value of 1900. Emancipation had appeared in 1902.

20-bit, 1905

In 1905 the currency changed to the bits and FF ', which led to new stamps. Values from 5b to 50b had the profile of King Christian IX, while the 1GB, 2GB and 5GB representing Ingolf sailing vessel at the port of St. Thomas. New rights of postage were also required. Of 5b were produced by additional the old overload stamps.

A final set of 1907 represents Frederick VIII, followed in 1915 by a series of Christian X.


Postal stationery envelope from 1891, having traveled to St. Thomas in Hanover in 1902
is one of the finest pieces of my collection of envelopes!


For this article, I have everything stitched on: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilles_danoises
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