When you receive a parcel, the least important item is the wrapping, which generally gets discard without much attention being paid to it. As such, collecting items such as parcel cancels or the high value stamps generally used for mailing them is difficult.
The early manual parcel date cancels of Qatar, as identified by Neil Donaldson are pretty hard to find as a complete cancellation. The first of which a type 12, Umm Said, is thought to have first been used in February 1956. The type 16, from Doha, was first introduced around October 1960.
As always, click on each image to zoom in.
I would be happy if you could share your own versions of these cancellations.
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