page_title: Postage stamps and postal history of Seychelles
section_title: First stamps of Seychelles
hierarchical_section_title: Postage stamps and postal history of Seychelles / First stamps of Seychelles
caption_attribution_description: English: 1897-1900 2c orange-brown and green, variety 'Repaired S' from left pane, R7/3. Maximum of 504 possible, with a low survival rate.
context_page_description: This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Seychelles, a 115 island nation spanning an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, some 1,500 kilometres east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar. Seychelles was administered as a dependency of Mauritius from 1810 to 1903. Independence was granted in 1976.
context_section_description: The first stamps marked Seychelles were issued on 5 April 1890 and were of a Queen Victoria key type design. A number of different issues followed, all of the same design, including surcharges in 1893 and 1901.
caption: A Queen Victoria 2c stamp of Seychelles.
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