{"id":210,"date":"2008-02-05T21:41:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T21:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/05\/unlisted-iraq-stamp\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T21:41:16","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T21:41:16","slug":"unlisted-iraq-stamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/05\/unlisted-iraq-stamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlisted Iraq stamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am very excited by this stamp which I just found on eBay. It looks like a revenue stamp of sorts. It doesn&#8217;t look like an official stamp, looks more like a cinderella stamp, but the numbers and symbols on the stamp are interesting. <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"><strong>The numbers\/values are not in Arabic<\/strong> which makes me change my mind about it being a revenue stamp<\/span>. Any how its an nice design.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I anyone know what this is, please use the contact form, you will find the link at the top of this page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[update] Thanks to Frank who wrote in to explain the history of this stamp<\/p>\n<p>This is a meter postage impression from a Universal &#8220;Multi-Value&#8221; 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 &#8220;U1&#8221; which was used in Baghdad from 1941<\/p>\n<p>Hawkins, J.A. and Stambaugh R.: The International Postage Meter Stamp Catalog; Hawkins and Stambaugh, Arizona; 1st Edition 2005; 1216 pages.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2d10_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"2d10_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am very excited by this stamp which I just found on eBay. It looks like a revenue stamp of sorts. It doesn&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq-stamps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}