I am very excited by this stamp which I just found on eBay. It looks like a revenue stamp of sorts. It doesn’t look like an official stamp, looks more like a cinderella stamp, but the numbers and symbols on the stamp are interesting. The numbers/values are not in Arabic which makes me change my mind about it being a revenue stamp. Any how its an nice design.
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[update] Thanks to Frank who wrote in to explain the history of this stamp
This is a meter postage impression from a Universal “Multi-Value” machine, which would have been printed directly on to the envelope together with a circular datestamp. Hawkins and Stambaugh list one machine known, with code “U1” which was used in Baghdad from 1941
Hawkins, J.A. and Stambaugh R.: The International Postage Meter Stamp Catalog; Hawkins and Stambaugh, Arizona; 1st Edition 2005; 1216 pages.
