Britain
Refer: Great Britain
British Administration Issues
Refer: Eritrea (British Administration);
Somalia (British Administration);
Tripolitania (British Military Administration)
* British Antarctic Territory
Dates: 1963 -
Currency: (1963) 12 pence = 1 shilling, 20 shillings = 1 pound
(1971) 100 pence = 1 pound
See also: Falkland Islands Dependencies;
South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands
British Bechuanaland
Territory in southern Africa which was separated from Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana)
by the Molopo river. British Bechuanaland became a British colony on 30 September 1885 but was
added to Cape Colony on 16 November 1895. It is now the northern part of Cape Province in
South Africa.
The first stamps issued were Cape of Good Hope types with an overprint. Specific types were
issued in 1887 but subsequently there were further British and Cape types with overprints.
Cape of Good Hope stamps were introduced to British Bechuanaland in 1895 but, conversely,
British Bechuanaland types were retained for use in the neighbouring Bechuanaland Protectorate
from 1890 to 1897.
Dates: 1885 - 1897
Capital: Mafeking
Currency: 12 pence = 1 shilling, 20 shillings = 1 pound
Album: Cape of Good Hope
See also: Bechuanaland Protectorate
* British Central Africa
Dates: 1891 - 1908
Capital: Zomba
Currency: 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
See also: Malawi;
Nyasaland Protectorate
British Columbia
Dates: 1865 - 1868
Capital: Vancouver
Currency: (1865) 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
(1868) 100 cents = 1 dollar
Album: Canadian States
British Columbia & Vancouver Island
Dates: 1860 only
Capital: Vancouver
Currency: 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
Album: Canadian States
British Commonwealth Occupation of Japan
Refer: Japan (British Commonwealth Occupation)
British Consular Mail
Refer: Madagascar (British Consular Mail)
* British East Africa
Dates: 1895 - 1903
Capital: Nairobi
Currency: 16 annas = 1 rupee
Includes: British East Africa Company;
East Africa & Uganda Protectorates;
Uganda Protectorate
See also: Kenya Uganda & Tanzania (Combined Issues)
British East Africa Company
Dates: 1890 - 1895
Currency: 16 annas = 1 rupee
Album: British East Africa
British Field Office in Salonika
Refer: Salonika (British Field Office)
British Forces in Egypt
Refer: Egypt (British Forces)
* British Guiana
Dates: 1850 - 1966
Capital: Georgetown
Currency: 100 cents = 1 dollar
See also: Guyana
* British Honduras
Dates: 1866 - 1973
Capital: Belize
Currency: (1866) 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
(1888) 100 cents = 1 dollar
See also: Belize
* British Indian Ocean Territory
Dates: 1868 - 1976
Capital: Victoria (on Mahe, Seychelles)
Currency: 100 cents = 1 rupee
See also: Seychelles;
Zil Elwannyen Sesel
British Levant
Refer: British Post Offices in the Turkish Empire
British Middle East Forces
Refer: Middle East Forces
British Military Administration Issues (BMA)
Refer: Eritrea (British Military Administration);
Malaya (British Military Administration);
North Borneo (British Military Administration);
Sarawak (British Military Administration);
Somalia (British Military Administration);
Tripolitania (British Military Administration)
British New Guinea
Dates: 1901 - 1906
Capital: Port Moresby
Currency: 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
Album: Papua New Guinea
* British Occupation Issues
Includes: Baghdad (British Occupation);
Batum (British Occupation);
Bushire (British Occupation);
Cameroons (British Occupation);
East Africa Forces;
German East Africa (British Occupation);
Iraq (British Occupation);
Japan (British Commonwealth Occupation);
Long Island (British Occupation);
Mafia Island (British Occupation)
See also: BA/BMA Issues;
Egypt (British Forces);
Germany (Allied Occupation);
Middle East Forces;
Togo (Anglo-French Occupation)
British Occupation of Italian Colonies
Refer: BA/BMA Issues;
East Africa Forces;
Middle East Forces
* British Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia
British stamps overprinted with Indian currency; used in Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Kuwait,
Muscat and Qatar.
Muscat and Dubai relied on Indian postal administration until 1 April 1948 when the British
agencies were established. Two agencies were opened in Qatar: at Doha (August 1950) and Umm
Said (February 1956). In Abu Dhabi, an agency was opened on Das Island in December 1960 and
in Abu Dhabi City on 30 March 1963. The agencies also supplied stamps to Bahrain until 1960;
and to Kuwait during shortages in 1951-53.
The agency in Dubai issued the Trucial States stamps on 7 January 1961.
As each state took over its own postal administration, the offices closed. Closure dates were:
Qatar on 31 March 1957; Dubai on 14 June 1963; Abu Dhabi on 29 March 1964; finally Muscat on
29 April 1966.
Dates: 1948 - 1966
Currency: (1948) 12 pies = 1 anna; 16 annas = 1 rupee
(1957) 100 naye paise = 1 rupee
See also: Abu Dhabi;
Bahrain;
Dubai;
Kuwait;
Muscat;
Qatar;
Trucial States
* British Post Offices Abroad
Includes: Bangkok (British Post Office);
China (British Post Offices);
China (British Railway Administration);
Crete (British Post Offices);
Japan (British Post Offices);
Madagascar (British Consular Mail)
See also: British Post Offices in the Turkish Empire;
Morocco Agencies;
Tangier
* British Post Offices in the Turkish Empire
Dates: 1885 - 1923
Currency: 40 paras = 1 piastre
Includes: Beirut (British Post Office);
Salonika (British Field Office)
British Regional Issues
Refer: Great Britain (Regional Issues)
British Solomon Islands
Dates: 1907 - 1975
Capital: Honiara
Currency: 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
Album: Solomon Islands
British Somaliland
Dates: 1903 only
Capital: Berbera
Currency: 16 annas = 1 rupee
Album: Somaliland Protectorate
* British South Africa Company
In 1924, the territory was divided into Northern and Southern Rhodesia.
Dates: 1890 - 1924
Currency: 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
See also: Rhodesia
* British Virgin Islands
Dates: 1968 -
Capital: Road Town
Currency: 100 cents = 1 dollar
Includes: Virgin Islands
See also: Leeward Islands
British Zone
No separate issues. From 1945-1949, always used the same stamps as the American Zone.
Refer: American, British & Russian Zones (General Issues);
Anglo-American Zones (Civil Government);
Anglo-American Zones (Military Government)