These stamps had colorful designs and bolder graphical elements. Only Colnect automatically matches collectibles you want with collectables collectors offer for sale or swap. Other popular topics of the Upper Voltan stamps include international agendas, awareness issues, former presidents, and heritage and culture. Buy, sell, trade and exchange collectibles easily with Colnect collectors community. In 1961, Upper Volta released an independence anniversary issue featuring the coat of arms and airmail issues marked “ POSTE AERIENNE.” During the 1960s and 1970s, the Republic of Upper Volta released postal and airmail issues in various themes, hunting and tourism, games, flowers, animals, and birds being the common subjects. The country’s name was inscribed either “REPUBLIC DE HAUTE-VOLTA” or “ REPUBLIC DE HAUTE VOLTA.” That year, the government also issued more animal mask stamps, a commemorative issue for the first president, Maurice Yaméogo, and two 25-Franc stamps celebrating the anniversaries of groups dedicated to technical and economic cooperation between African countries. In 1960, Upper Volta was declared an independent nation, and it produced a set of stamps showcasing African animal masks to mark the event. Soon after, Upper Volta established its postal system, and it released its first stamps of the republic in 1959, bearing “ REPUBLIQUE DE HAUTE-VOLTA.” The first issue was a 25 Francs stamp featuring a large portrait of Daniel Ouezzin Coulibaly, the former colony’s leader. In late 1958, the colony became an autonomous republic within the French Community. Upper Volta was so named because the region contained the upper portion of the Volta River.

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