A study of the stamps of Qatar and the history surrounding the time of their issue.
Qatar Post issued a new stamp set at the beginning of this month. It was sponsored by one of Qatar's oldest and most influential engineering companies - CICO Consulting Engineers.
Work is progressing on Book 2 of my collection, but this has slowed down my regular posts - I apologise for this.
Below is a commercial cover from one of Qatar's oldest companies.
The Jakarta 2024 Asian International Stamp Exhibition & Competition has ended, and Qatar's participation, as usual, was marked by a few awards, as can be seen below.
After a short summer break - back to some philatelic news.
On July 4th, a new stamp was issued in Qatar to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Joaan bin Jassim Academy for Defence Studies.
It's worth noting that the issue coincided with the academy's annual graduation ceremony, adding a special touch to the event.
The issued stamps are full of symbology, some of which are described in the slides below.
Friendship covers from Qatar are relatively rare, but finding one with parts of its contents is even rarer.
Sometimes, the luckiest of us find one rare stamp, stumble onto an unknown stamp, or discover that mysterious stamp missing from our collection.
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Proud to announce that my first book on Qatar Philately just got published.
Using philately, it takes the reader on a tour of Qatar's history from the Stone Age to 1960.
The ITU resulted from the fast implementation of the telegraph lines throughout Europe. The convention regulating the tariffs across borders was signed in Paris on the 17th of May 1865 by twenty-one nations.
The ITU's centenary was celebrated worldwide with the issuance of 220 stamps by 100 countries and the United Nations.
Click on the images below to learn more.
Here are three Qatar stamps from the 1960s showing the start of the Qatar Boys Scouts Movement.
Continuing from the last post, another cover featuring the complete 1976 Earth Station stamp issuing and the 55 Dirham variation.
Knowing what to look for allows us to identify same rarer covers that might otherwise seem simply elaborate philatelic covers with little collectible value.
The below is one such example.
The British Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia issued stamps have a number of known plate flaws.
Qatar took over the Postal Service from the British Postal Agency for Eastern Arabia in 1963.
As such the covers below would be some of the first to be mailed by the newly created Department of Post and the top two covers by coincidence also include stamps belonging to the first two issues of Qatar after the takeover.
A simple cover from Qatar via Bahrain to a well known school in Mumbai, India. The mailing from Qatar for a ling period of time had to go through Bahrain.
When we start collecting, sometimes we commit errors without knowing, or at least I certainly did.
Qatar's historic retaining of the AFC champion's title has been marked by a set of stamps as shown below.
Cover from Germany to Qatar with a few interesting items.
The red town hall stamp is from West Berlin enclave. Making this a rare 1959 cover to Qatar, in particular in that it places Qatar in South East Arabia.
The recipient of the cover is a Mr. A.B. D'Souza, better known in Qatar philately for a series of friendship covers.
This cover was mailed just five days prior to Qatar's Independence.
Prior to the Independence Qatar had established its own constitution (First Interim Basic Law 1970), thereby creating all require internal organs such as Judicial System, Foreign Ministry (Department of Foreign Affairs - 1969).
The court system is a dual system compromised of Sharia and Adlia. The first has exclusive jurisdiction for family law matters, while the second follows more the Napoleonic Code common in most Middle East countries.
