Postage stamps and postal history of La Agüera

A 1920 stamp of La Aguera.

A 1922 stamp of La Aguera.

In June 1920, Spain issued postage stamps of its existing colony Río de Oro overprinted "LA AGÜERA", and followed those up in 1922 with a series portraying King Alfonso XIII and inscribed "SAHARA OCCIDENTAL / LA AGÜERA". These were superseded in 1924 by stamps of Spanish Sahara. The stamps of La Agüera are not rare, typically costing about one US$ either used or unused, but because of the small population (probably less than 1,000 persons) and short period of validity, non-philatelic uses on cover are likely to be hard to find.

Sources

• Stanley Gibbons Ltd: various catalogues
• Encyclopaedia of Postal History
• Rossiter, Stuart & John Flower. The Stamp Atlas. London: Macdonald, 1986. ISBN 0356108627

External links

• Stamps of distinction - La Aguera. Archived here