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Aden & the Persian Gulf.

#1 · December 19, 2020, 12:08 am

Kuwait.

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#2 · December 19, 2020, 5:06 am

Kuwait.

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#3 · December 19, 2020, 8:13 pm

Very nice archive Specimen pieces

#4 · December 19, 2020, 10:43 pm

Kuwait.

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#5 · December 20, 2020, 2:56 pm

Hillard - well known collector for Gulf items, but nice cover

#6 · December 20, 2020, 8:06 pm

Kuwait.

I have been told that the high value 'Specimen' surcharges are unrecorded any opinions? (likewise with Qatar, Bahrain & Eastern Arabian agencies when I show them)

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#7 · December 21, 2020, 3:06 am

Which postal archive? Obviously a French language territory. It is unusual to find QE II issues on archival sheets - they were of course distributed as "normals".

#8 · December 21, 2020, 6:17 am

They are from the Goan Archives and issued by the UPU as 'Specimens'. If you check the high values they are not the same as the issued stamps. I believe they were printed on request by the UPU. I may be going out on a limb here as I have never specialised in these stamps and am only going on information I have been given. Any comments more than welcome.

#9 · December 21, 2020, 6:25 am

Kuwait.

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#10 · December 21, 2020, 6:55 am

Jamie

This is an excellent write-up for the area and still under-researched.

Many of us, got our first taste of philately, through the shiny stamps of these countries when they became the "sand-dune" countries through independence.