The issue of stamps has been used to demonstrate sovereignty by many countries (as mentioned on my vey first blog) a good example are the many stamps issued to claim territory in Antartica such as Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, UK, USA, USSR and so on.
In this aspect, the countries under British suzerainty are no different. Below is one such example with the stamps from Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar.
The stamps shown for all these states are the same issue of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II issued in 1957, but just like on my previous blog, the issue dates were not the same for all states.
A word of caution, it appears that there are forgeries of the Oman FDC. Generally, in that period the covers were always at least off white, yet there are some examples of the FDC on white FDCs which is in the very least suspicious.
For this collection, I opted to have all addressed FDC's, which provides more authenticity to them. Feel free to share your FDC's versions for this set - in particular looking for a version from Dubai.
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Thank you Antonio for your great information you are doing great work for Qatar post history special for Qatar stamps
ReplyDeleteThank you - it has been a fun journey learning about Qatar's history through the stamps.
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