Sainte Marie de Madagascar

Sainte Marie de Madagascar was a separate French island colony off the northeast coast of Madagascar. This was obviously carefully named to avoid confusion with all the other Sainte Marie's elsewhere in the world. Not that any of the others had stamps issued for them. Were they jealous? We'll probably never know.

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 * In 1894, the type Groupe series was issued, inscribed S TE  MARIE /  DE   MADAGASCAR.
 * And that was that. In 1896, the island became part of Madagascar.