COUNTRIES THAT USED MOURNING COVERS
A
B
C
F
E
G
J
H
L
I
M
K
D
Egypt
Eritrea*
Estonia*
Ethiopia (Abyssinia)*
Ethiopia, Italian Occupation*
Eupen and Malmedy*
Japan*
Jersey (German Occupation-
WW2)*
Jordan*
Latvia*
Lebanon*
Liberia*
Libya (Libia)
Liechtenstein*
Lithuania*
Ljubljana (German Occupation-WW2)*
Lourenço Marques*
Luxembourg*
Occupation*
Orange River Colony
Ottoman Empire (to 1922)
[now Turkiye]
Taiwan (Republic of China)*
Tasmania*
Thailand (Siam)*
Thurn and Taxis*
Tobago*
Togo*
Tonga*
Transvaal*
Travancore* (India Feudatory)
Trieste*
Trinidad and Tobago*
Tunisia
Turkiye (1923-present) (see Ottoman Empire)
Tuscany*
Two Siciles*
O
P
S
R
T
U U
Y
X
Uganda*
United Nations
United States
Upper Senegal and Niger*
Upper Silesia*
Uruguay*
Venezuela*
Victoria*
Vietnam*
Vietnam (South)(to 1973)*
V
W
Q
N
(updated until the end of 2021)
The last complete list of “Countries that used Mourning Covers” was published at the beginning of 2017 (MN#41).
The following is the original introduction to this article by Ernie Mosher, written shortly before his death. “Mourning covers (MCs) are now known to have been used in at least 250 different stamp-issuing countries. Following is a list of these countries, with an asterisk (*) showing countries where MCs were seldom used. Each of these MCs have been seen by the author, in original or copy form. The list includes 117 stamp-issuing entities known as dead or inactive countries, shown in italics. See pages 4-5 of this issue for my report entitled: “Defining a Mourning Cover ‘Country’.”
This updated list has added those new countries reported in issues of Mourning Notes to the end of 2021. Your editor has also made additions to the list to reflect certain historical periods which can be identified with specific stamp issues, whose names are generally not reflected in the general catalogue listings. Examples are the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (RSFSR) of 1918-1922, and post–1959 Cuba, from all of which mourning covers are scarce. All “countries” are listed in alphabetical order, no matter where they appear in the Scott catalogue. For example, Hawaii is listed under the letter “H”, rather than as it appears in Scott, under the rubric “United States”; while Thurn und Taxis appears under “T”, although the Scott catalogue lists it under “German States.”.
The current list of consists of 276 stamp-issuing entities. This includes a total of 143* known as “dead” or “inactive” countries, shown in italics. Stamp=issuing entities denoted with an asterisk (*) indicate those countries where mourning covers were seldom used.
