After the death of the former dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussain, a few interesting items have have come up for sale on eBay relating to stamps. Here are three such FDCs, they are very collectable and I really like them. Two FDCs feature USA stamps, from both Gulf war eras, and the other one has […]
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 […]
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 […]
Written by ahmed zaki The 3fils is forged in my opinion, both optd are NOT real, a similar work used to be done in Basra by a man well known to Iraqi collectors.anyway, here is why i think it is forged:  1. I have not seen this stamp with double print before, this is normal […]
I just noticed this stamp being sold on eBay. The advert claims that this is some kind of concept or sample stamp that never made it to the print room giving the impression that it was commissioned officially. It is being sold for a lot of money and it is a rip off. This stamp […]
Another posting on eBay and another amazing error, errors could be as small as a mysterious dot appearing from somewhere or in this case a number. This is supposed to be a variety of the S.G. 111 King Faisal surcharged stamp. It claims to have an extra number 1 between the 1 and 0 in […]
I recently saw an advert advertising this stamp on eBay, its supposed to be an error of the King Faisal 1932 Stanley Gibbons number 107. It mentions in the advert that its the "wide space" variety and that it has S.G. number 107d. I checked the SG website and the SG Middle East catalogue and […]
The Iraq Directory, a general and commercial Directory of Iraq with a supplement for the neighboring countries, issue of 1936, gives following reference to the Railway Post letters: Ordinary letters or postcards may be handed in at most railway stations in Iraq to be forwarded by the first available passenger train to other railway stations […]
Written by ahmed zaki The 1919 Mosul issue 2 1/2 Annas with the error no bar to fraction, listed in stanley gibbons, only I believe that this stamp was printed as normal, then altered by removing the bar. the process is very difficult, here the person have done a bad job, such work could have […]
I browsed a recent item advertised on eBay, and the advert was selling an Iraqi FDC, shown in the picture, and claiming that this is a cancellation error and selling what should be a relatively cheap item for many times the price it should cost. The item has two cancellations on the stamps side, one […]
