Compendium of postage stamp issuers (W) explained

Each "article" in this category is a collection of entries about several stamp issuers, presented in alphabetical order. The entries are formulated on the micro model and so provide summary information about all known issuers.

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Wadhwan

Dates : 1888 – 1892
  • Currency : 4 pice = 1 anna
    • Refer : Indian Native States

    Wake Island

    Currency : 100 cents = 1 dollar (US)
    Refer : United States of America (USA)

    Wales

    Dates : 1958 –
  • Capital : Cardiff
  • Currency : (1958) 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
  • (1971) 100 pence = 1 pound
    Refer : Great Britain (Regional Issues)

    Wallachia

    Refer : Moldo–Wallachia

    Wallis & Futuna Islands

    Dates : 1920 –
  • Capital : Matauta
  • Currency : 100 centimes = 1 franc
    • Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Wallis and Futuna

    Walvis Bay

    Refer : South West Africa

    Wenden

    Dates : 1863 – 1901
  • Currency : 100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble
    • Main Article Needed :

    West Berlin

    Dates : 1948 – 1991
  • Currency : 100 pfennige = 1 mark
    • Main Article Deutsche Bundespost Berlin

    West Germany

    Dates : 1949 – 1991
  • Capital : Bonn
  • Currency : 100 pfennige = 1 mark
    • Main Article Deutsche Bundespost

    West Irian

    Dates : 1963 – 1970
  • Capital : Hollandia
  • Currency : 100 sen = 1 rupiah
    • Main Article Needed :
    Includes : Western New Guinea
    See also : Indonesia;
  • Netherlands Indies

    Western New Guinea

    Dates : 1962 – 1963
  • Capital : Hollandia
  • Currency : 100 cents = 1 gulden
    • Refer : West Irian

    West Ukraine

    Dates : 1918 – 1919
  • Capital : Lemberg (Lviv)
  • Currency : 100 heller = 1 krone
    • Main Article Needed :

    Western Army

    Dates : 1919 – 1920
  • Currency : 100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble
    • Refer : Russian Civil War Issues

    Western Australia

    Dates : 1854 – 1912
  • Capital : Perth
  • Currency : 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
    • Main Article Needed :
    See also : Australia

    Western Command Area

    Dates : 1916 – 1918
  • Currency : 100 centimes = 1 franc
    • Refer : German Occupation Issues (World War I)

    Western Samoa

    Dates : 1935 – 1958
  • Capital : Apia
  • Currency : 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
    • Refer : Samoa

    Western Thrace

    Dates : 1913 only
  • Capital : Dedêagatz (now Alexandroupoli)
  • Currency : 40 paras = 1 piastre
    • Refer : Thrace
    See also : Dedêagatz (Greek Occupation);
  • Eastern Thrace;
  • Greek Occupation Issues;
  • Gumultsina;
  • Thrace (Allied Occupation);
  • Western Thrace (Greek Occupation)

    Western Thrace (Greek Occupation)

    Dates : 1920 only
  • Capital : Dedêagatz (now Alexandroupoli)
  • Currency : 100 lepta = 1 drachma
    • Refer : Thrace
    See also : Dedêagatz (Greek Occupation);
  • Greek Occupation Issues;
  • Gumultsina;
  • Thrace (Allied Occupation);
  • Western Thrace

    White Russia

    Refer : Belarus

    Windward Islands

    Capital : St George's, Grenada
    Refer : Grenada;
  • St Lucia;
  • St Vincent

    Wolmaransstad

    Dates : 1900 only
  • Currency : 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
    • Refer : Transvaal

    World Health Organization

    Dates : 1948 – 1975
  • Currency : 100 centimes = 1 franc
    • Refer : International Organisations

    World Intellectual Property Organisation

    Dates : 1982 only
  • Currency : 100 centimes = 1 franc
    • Refer : International Organisations

    World Meteorological Organisation

    Dates : 1956 – 1973
  • Currency : 100 centimes = 1 franc
    • Refer : International Organisations

    Wrangel Government

    Dates : 1920 – 1921
  • Capital : Sevastopol
  • Currency : 100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble
    • Refer : Russian Civil War Issues

    Württemberg

    Dates : 1851 – 1924
  • Capital : Stuttgart
  • Currency : (1851) 60 kreuzer = 1 gulden
  • (1875) 100 pfennige = 1 mark
    Main Article Needed :

    Württemberg (French Zone)

    Dates : 1947 – 1949
  • Capital : Stuttgart
  • Currency : 100 pfennige = 1 mark
    • Refer : Germany (Allied Occupation)

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