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Maldive Islands
9th September 1906
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| 1906 Sc1-6 | xxx |
perf 14, wmk multiple crowns CA
| Description | Scott | SG | Mi | Y&T | ||
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| Stamps of Ceylon overprinted | ||||||
| 2 cents orange brown | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 3c green | 2 | 2 | ||||
| 4c yellow and blue | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 5c dull lilac | 4 | 4 | ||||
| 15c ultra | 5 | 5 | ||||
| 25c bister | 6 | 6 | ||||
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Republic |
| 1968 Sc292 SG298 |
Scott [1] states,
"Maldive Islands was a British Protectorate, first as a dependency of Ceylon, then from 1948 as an independent sultanate, except for a year (1953) as a republic. The islands became completely independent on July 26, 1965 and became a republic again on November 11, 1968."
Unusually, the only one of these events acknowledged in stamps was the 1968 republic. This restraint did not last, however as by the early 1970s the Maldives were producing the common plethora of stamps featuring cartoon characters, random sports, spaceflight and so on.