Each "article" in this category is a collection of entries about several stamp issuers, presented in alphabetical order. The entries are formulated on the micro model and so provide summary information about all known issuers.
See the :Category:Compendium of postage stamp issuers page for details of the project.
Falkland Islands
Dates 1878 – Capital Port Stanley Currency (1878) 12 pence = 1 shilling, 20 shillings = 1 pound (1971) 100 pence = 1 pound
See also British Antarctic Territory; Falkland Islands Dependencies; South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands
Falkland Islands Dependencies
Dates 1946 – Currency (1946) 12 pence = 1 shilling, 20 shillings = 1 pound (1971) 100 pence = 1 pound
Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of the Falkland Islands Dependencies
Includes Graham Land (Falkland Island Dependencies); South Georgia (Falkland Islands Dependencies); South Orkneys (Falkland Islands Dependencies); South Shetlands (Falkland Islands Dependencies)
See also British Antarctic Territory; Falkland Islands; South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands
Far Eastern Republic
Dates 1920 – 1922 Capital Vladivostok Currency 100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble
Refer Russian Civil War Issues
Faridkot
Dates 1879 – 1887 Currency (1879) 1 folus = 1 paisa = 1/4 anna (1886) 12 pies = 1 anna; 16 annas = 1 rupee
Refer Faridkot in Indian Convention states
Faroe Islands
Dates 1976 – Capital Thorshavn Currency 100 ore = 1 krone Main article Postage stamps and postal history of the Faroe Islands
Farquhar
Refer Zil Elwannyen Sesel
Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia
Refer Yugoslavia
Federated Malay States
Dates 1900 – 1935 Capital Kuala Lumpur Currency 100 cents = 1 dollar
Main Article
See also Malaysia
Fernando Poo
Now called Bioko (also spelled Bioco), Fernando Poo is an island off the west coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea. Formerly part of Spanish Guinea, it is now part of Equatorial Guinea.
Dates 1868 – 1968 Capital Santa Isabel Currency 100 centimos = 1 peseta
Refer Spanish Guinea
Fezzan
Dates 1943 – 1951 Capital Sabha Currency French (100 centimes = 1 franc)
Main Article
Includes Ghadames
See also Algeria; Cyrenaica; French Occupation Issues; Libya; Tripolitania
Fezzan (French Occupation)
Refer Fezzan
Fiji
Dates 1870 – Capital Suva Currency (1870) 12 pence = 1 shilling, 20 shillings = 1 pound (1969) 100 cents = 1 dollar
Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Fiji
Finland
Dates 1856 – Capital Helsinki Currency (1856) 100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble (1865) 100 penni = 1 markka (1963) 100 old marks = 1 new mark (2002) 100 cent = 1 euro
Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Finland
Finnish Occupation Issues
Main Article
Includes Aunus (Finnish Occupation); Eastern Karelia (Finnish Occupation)
Fiume
Includes Arbe; Fiume (Free State); Fiume (Yugoslav Occupation); Veglia
Fiume (Free State)
Dates 1918 – 1924 Capital Fiume Currency (1918) 100 Fillér = 1 krone (1919) 100 centesimi = 1 corona (1920) 100 centesimi = 1 lira
Refer Fiume
Fiume (Yugoslav Occupation)
Dates 1945 – 1947 Currency 100 centesimi = 1 lira
Refer Fiume
Fiume & Kupa Zone (Italian Occupation)
Dates 1941 – 1942 Currency 100 paras = 1 dinar
Refer Italian Occupation Issues
Formosa
Refer Chinese Nationalist Republic (Taiwan); Taiwan
France
Dates 1849 – Capital Paris Currency (1849) 100 centimes = 1 franc (2002) 100 cent = 1 euro
Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of France
Free French Forces in the Levant
Dates 1942 – 1946 Currency 100 centimes = 1 franc
Refer French Occupation Issues
French Colonies
Dates 1859 – 1886 Currency 100 centimes = 1 franc
Includes French Committee of National Liberation
French Committee of National Liberation
Dates 1943 – 1945 Currency 100 centimes = 1 franc
Refer French Colonies
French Community
Refer French Colonies
French Congo
Dates 1891 – 1906 Capital Brazzaville Currency 100 centimes = 1 franc
Main Article
See also Congo Republic; French Equatorial Africa; Middle Congo
French Equatorial Africa (AEF)
Dates 1936 – 1958 Capital Brazzaville Currency 100 centimes = 1 franc
Main Article
See also Central African Republic; Chad; Congo Republic; French Congo; Gabon; Middle Congo; Oubangui–Chari
French Guiana
Dates 1886 – 1947 Capital Cayenne Currency 100 centimes = 1 franc
Main Article
Includes Inini
French Guinea
Dates 1892 – 1944 Capital Conakry Currency 100 centimes = 1 franc
Main Article
See also French West Africa; Guinea
French Indian Settlements
Dates 1892 – 1954 Currency (1892) 100 centimes = 1 franc (1923) 24 caches = 1 fanon; 8 fanons = 1 rupee
Main Article
French Levant
Refer French Post Offices in the Turkish Empire
French Morocco
Dates 1914 – 1956 Capital Rabat Currency 100 centimes = 1 franc
Includes French Protectorate, Morocco
See also Morocco (French Post Offices)
French Occupation Issues
Main Article
Includes Arad (French Occupation); Castelrosso (French Occupation); Cilicia (French Occupation); Free French Forces in the Levant; Korce (Koritza); Memel (French Administration); Syria (French Occupation)
See also Fezzan
French Oceanic Settlements
Dates 1892 – 1956 Capital Papeete (Tahiti) Currency 100 centimes = 1 franc
Main Article
Includes Tahiti
See also French Polynesia
French Polynesia
Dates 1958 – Capital Papeete (Tahiti) Currency 100 centimes = 1 franc
See also French Oceanic Settlements; Tahiti
French Post Offices Abroad
Main Article
Includes China (French Post Offices); Ethiopia (French Post Offices); Japan (French Post Offices); Madagascar (French Post Offices); Majunga (French Post Office); Morocco (French Post Offices); Tangier (French Post Office); Tientsin (French Post Office); Zanzibar (French Post Office)
See also Crete (French Post Offices); Egypt (French Post Offices); French Post Offices in the Turkish Empire
French Post Offices in the Turkish Empire
Dates 1885 – 1923 Currency French and Turkish both used
Main Article
Includes Beirut (French Post Office); Dedêagatz (French Post Office); Kavalla (French Post Office); Port Lagos (French Post Office); Vathy (French Post Office)
See also French Post Offices Abroad; Crete (French Post Offices); Egypt (French Post Offices)
French Protectorate, Morocco
Dates 1914 – 1915 Capital Rabat Currency 100 centimes = 1 franc
Refer French Morocco
French Somali Coast
Dates 1902 – 1967 Capital Djibouti Currency 100 centimes = 1 franc
Main Article
See also Djibouti; French Territory of Afars & Issas
French Soudan
Dates 1894 – 1944 Capital Bamako Currency 100 centimes = 1 franc
Main Article
Includes Senegambia & Niger; Upper Senegal & Niger
See also French West Africa; Mali Federation; Mali Republic
French Southern and Antarctic Territories Dates 1955 – Capital Port-aux-Francais Currency 100 centimes = 1 franc Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of the French Southern and Antarctic Territories
French Territory of Afars & Issas
Dates 1967 – 1977 Capital Djibouti Currency 100 centimes = 1 franc
Main Article
See also Djibouti; French Somali Coast
French West Africa
Dates 1944 – 1959 Capital Dakar Currency 100 centimes = 1 franc
Main Article
Includes Dakar–Abidjan
See also Dahomey; French Guinea; French Soudan; Ivory Coast; Mauritania; Niger; Senegal; Upper Volta
French Zone (General Issues)
Dates 1945 – 1946 Currency 100 pfennige = 1 mark
Refer Germany (Allied Occupation)
Friendly Islands
Refer Tonga
Fujeira
Dates 1964 – 1972 Currency (1964) 100 naye paise = 1 rupee (1967) 100 dirhams = 1 riyal
Refer Trucial States
Funafuti
Refer Tuvalu
Funchal
Dates 1892 – 1905 Capital Funchal Currency 1000 reis = 1 milreis
Main Article
See also Madeira
References
Bibliography Stanley Gibbons Ltd, Europe and Colonies 1970, Stanley Gibbons Ltd, 1969 Stanley Gibbons Ltd, various catalogues Stuart Rossiter & John Flower, The Stamp Atlas, W H Smith, 1989 XLCR Stamp Finder and Collector's Dictionary, Thomas Cliffe Ltd, c.1960
External links
Encyclopaedia of Postal History