French colonies obliterator codes

French colonies general issues are often found cancelled by an obliterator with 3- or 4-letter code. Otherwise, the colony's CDS was used. The obliterator was the the French type of the time, a lozenge of dots.

So, the place of origin of individual stamps can be determined if the code is readable.
 * ASI – Ivory Coast/Côte d'Ivoire; Assinie was an old name for the colony
 * CCH – Indochina, Cochinchine being another name for the colony
 * GAB – Gabon
 * GOR – Senegal/Sénégal; Gorée Island was the original settlement there
 * GPE – Guadeloupe
 * INDE – French India/Inde française
 * MQE – Martinique
 * NSB – Nossi-Bé
 * OCN – French Polynesia; Océanie is the name for the region
 * SNG – Sénégal
 * SPM – Saint Pierre and Miquelon/Saint Pierre et Miquelon

 File:Eagle A.png|Martinique cancel on 40c Eagle. 

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