Compendium of postage stamp issuers (Sp–Sz)

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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Spain

Dates: 1850 –
Capital: Madrid
Currency: (1850) 8 cuartos [es] = 1 real; (1866) 80 cuartos [es] = 100 centimos = 1 escudo; (1867) 1000 milesimas = 100 centimos = 80 cuartos [es] = 1 escudo; (1872) 100 centimos = 1 peseta; (2002) 100 cent = 1 euro

Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Spain

See also: Canary Islands

Spanish Guinea

Dates: 1902–1960
Capital: Santa Isabel
Currency: 100 centimos = 1 peseta

Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Equatorial Guinea

Includes: Elobey, Annobon & Corisco;; Fernando Poo;; Rio Muni

Spanish Marianas

Dates: 1898–1899
Capital
Currency: 100 centimos = 1 peseta

Refer: Spanish Philippines

See also: Mariana Islands

Spanish Morocco

Dates: 1914–1956
Capital: Tetuan
Currency: 100 centimos = 1 peseta

Main Article Needed

Spanish Philippines

Dates: 1854–1898
Capital: Manila
Currency: (1854) 20 cuartos [es] = 1 real; 8 reales = 1 peso; (1864) 100 centimos = 1 peso; (1871) 100 centimos = 1 escudo; (1872) 100 centimos = 1 peseta; (1876) 1000 milesimas = 100 centavos = 1 peso

Main Article Needed

Includes: Spanish Marianas

Spanish Post Offices Abroad

Main Article Needed

Includes: Morocco (Spanish Post Offices);; Tangier (Spanish Post Office);; Tetuan (Spanish Post Office)

Spanish Sahara

Dates: 1924–1975
Capital: El Aaiun
Currency: 100 centimos = 1 peseta

Refer: Spanish West Africa

Spanish West Africa

The general issue was for use in Ifni and Spanish Sahara.

Dates: 1949–1951
Currency: 100 centimos = 1 peseta

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Includes: Cape Juby;; Ifni;; La Aguëra;; Rio de Oro;; Spanish Sahara

Srba Hrvata Slovena

Refer: Yugoslavia

Sremsko Baranjska Oblast (Croatia)

After Croatia recovered Krajina and Eastern Slavonia from the autonomous republic of Srpska Krajina in 1995, Eastern Slavonia was placed under UN administration and called Sremsko Baranjska Oblast (Srem and Baranya Region). Stamps were issued soon afterwards.

Postal administration was transferred back to Croatia on 19 May 1997 and separate issues ceased at that time. Eastern Slavonia as a whole was incorporated back into the Republic of Croatia on 15 January 1998.

Dates: 1995–1997
Capital
Currency: 100 paras = 1 dinar

Refer: Croatia

See also: Srpska Krajina (Croatia)

Sri Lanka

Dates: 1972 –
Capital: Colombo
Currency: 100 cents = 1 rupee

Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Sri Lanka

See also: Ceylon

Srpska

Refer: Bosnian Serb Republic

Srpska Krajina (Croatia)

After Croatia declared itself independent of Yugoslavia in 1991, Croatian Serbs in Krajina, Western Slavonia and Eastern Slavonia proclaimed their allegiance to Yugoslavia and formed the Republic of Srpska Krajina under UN protection. Elections for a president and parliament were held in January 1994.

In 1995, the Republic of Croatia began to recover the Serb territories. Krajina and Western Slavonia were incorporated back into Croatia that year while Eastern Slavonia was placed under UN administration and called Sremsko Baranjska Oblast (Srem and Baranya Region).

Stamps were issued soon after Srpska Krajina was proclaimed and continued until the Croatian recovery of Krajina. Later issues were made by Sremsko Baranjska Oblast (q.v.).

Dates: 1993–1995
Capital
Currency: 100 paras = 1 dinar

Refer: Croatia

See also: Sremsko Baranjska Oblast (Croatia)

Stadt Post Basel

Refer: Basle

Stampalia

Refer: Astypalaea

Stellaland Republic

A temporary Boer republic was established in Stellaland, which was the area surrounding Vryburg, on 26 July 1882. In 1885 it was annexed by Britain and incorporated into British Bechuanaland.

There was one local issue of six stamps on 1 February 1884.

Dates: 1884–1885
Capital: Vryburg
Currency: 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound

Refer: Cape of Good Hope

See also: Vryburg

Stockholm

Dates: 1856–1862
Currency: (1855) 48 skilling = 1 riksdaler; (1858) 100 ore = 1 riksdaler

Refer: Sweden

Straits Settlements

Dates: 1867–1942
Capital: Singapore
Currency: 100 cents = 1 dollar

Includes: Labuan

Strasbourg

Refer: Council of Europe (Strasbourg)

Sudan

Earliest issues were Egyptian stamps overprinted SOUDAN.

Dates: 1897 –
Capital: Khartoum
Currency: 1000 milliemes = 100 piastres = 1 pound

Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Sudan

Sudetenland

Refer: Asch (Sudetenland)

Suez Canal Company

During the construction period 1859–69, the company ran a mail service that was taken over by the Egyptian government in 1868. Some special stamps (unofficial only) were issued in 1868.

Refer: Egypt

Suidafrika

Refer: South Africa

Sumatra (Japanese Occupation)

Dates: 1943–1945
Currency: 100 cents = 1 gulden

Refer: Japanese Occupation Issues

Sungei Ujong

Dates: 1878–1895
Capital: Seremban
Currency: 100 cents = 1 dollar

Main Article Needed

See also: Malaysia

Suomi

Refer: Finland

Surinam/Suriname

Dates: 1873 –
Capital: Paramaribo
Currency: 100 cents = 1 gulden

Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Suriname

Sverige

Refer: Sweden

Swaziland

Dates: 1933 –
Capital: Mbabane
Currency: (1889) 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound; (1961) 100 cents = 1 rand; (1974) 100 cents = 1 lilangeni (note: plural is emalangeni)

Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Swaziland

Includes: Swaziland (Provisional Government)

Swaziland (Provisional Government)

Dates: 1889–1894
Capital: Mbabane
Currency: 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound

Refer: Swaziland

Sweden

Dates: 1855 –
Capital: Stockholm
Currency: (1855) 48 skilling = 1 riksdaler; (1858) 100 ore = 1 riksdaler; (1875) 100 ore = 1 krona

Includes: Stockholm

Swiss Cantonal Administration

Refer: Basle;; Geneva;; Switzerland;; Zurich

Swiss Cantonal Issues

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Includes: Basle;; Geneva;; Zurich

Swiss PTT

Refer: United Nations (UN)

Swiss Transitional Issues

Refer: Geneva;; Switzerland;; Zurich

Switzerland

Dates: 1850 –
Capital: Bern
Currency: (1850) 100 rappen = 1 franken; (1862) 100 centimes = 1 franc

See also: Swiss Cantonal Issues

Syme

Italian colony in the Dodecanese which used the general EGEO issues and had its own stamps inscribed SIMI, the Italian (and Greek) name of the island.

Dates: 1912–1932
Capital: Simi
Currency: 100 centesimi = 1 lira