Month: January 2007
Georgian Army in Iraq – Artistamps
Salahaddin + Basra provinces – Artistamps
A number of worthless printing errors
Again on eBay I've seen a few items listed which might appeal to some inexperienced Iraq collectors or non Iraq collectors which are infact very common printing errors. During the period of economic sanctions between 1991-2003 Iraqi stamps were printed cheaply and lots and lots of printing errors existed and could be reproduced by your […]
Forgeries Collection : 8 – Baghdad Forgeries
Funny printing error forgery
Macedonian forces in Iraq, Fantasy stamps
Saddam’s death, some fantasy FDCs
Forgeries Collection : 7 – Baghdad stamps with cancellation “MEF”
Written by ahmed zaki Has a cancellation with "MEF" which is the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (also BMEF), these are British HQ formed mainly in Italian colonies in the Mediterranean, like tripoli, salonika, areteria and somalia, some information about these you can find here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Expeditionary_Force But these never reached Iraq or Baghdad !! how how can […]
Forgeries Collection : 6 – Haiffa cancellations on Baghdad issue
Written by ahmed zaki Turn the stamp 90CW, you will have the honour to see a stamp of Baghdad issue with HAIFFA (Palestine) cancellation. check (Ottoman Empire Cancellations part2), it can be no. 54, 55, 56, 57 or 58 (see pp. 76), i cannot identify which one precisely because only about 20% of it is […]