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1932-1963 Commercial covers intr group incl Janoubi large violet Baghdad cancel on printed env to Bahrain, 1939 airmail 8fils pair tied violet oval, 1932 & 1940 regd cvrs to USA, 1963 Shorjah Bazar Baghdad. Nice group. (6).
1933 (1 Jun) Registered cover to London bearing 10f yellow (3), 20f orange tied BAGHDAD cds, sent airmail with No.210 regd etiquette. Nice combn.
1941 1Aug) Censor airmail cover Baghdad As-Samawal to USA bearing 10f pair tied cds and brown censor tape affixed and tied PASSED CENSOR /[manuscript] 1519) with Baghdad b/s.
1941 (Nov) Censored cover to Bombay bearing 20f orange, tied BASRA cds, black triangle Censor h/s and violet V in circle on obverse. Sent from the Ottoman Bank Basrah.
1942 (Dec) Cover Baghdad As-Samawal Typed wrapper to UK bearing 3f tied on obverse, with NOT EXAMINED / IRAQ CENSORSHIP boxed h/s on obverse. English sealing tape 909 on reverse.
1942 (June) Cover Baghdad Junoubi airmail to USA bearing 20f black and 75f pair tied on obverse with NOT EXAMINED / IRAQ CENSORSHIP boxed h/s on obverse (Little type 5b). English sealing tape 69/733.
1943 (23 July) Airletter Iran to Scotland bearing Iraq 10f & 25f tied at BASRA with Iraq 13 censor circle in violet sent from SG 171/8, Balfour Beatty & Co, Abadan, Iran. via Iraq to UK.
1945 (23 July) Regd envelope Iran to USA bearing Iraq 4f, 15f pair, 2f & 100f tied BASRAH cds cancels, with Iraq 13 censor circle in violet sent from Gray Mackenzie & Co, Khorramshahr, Iran. via Iraq to USA.
1949 Air Miniature sheets both imperf and perf, unmounted mint, trace of paper nick in bottom right corner on the perf issue. SG MS338.
Circa 1920-1922 (Undated) 1an on 20p red on white Turkish postal stationery card with British Occupation overprint and surcharge cancelled unusual dotted circle in black to France. French / Arabic bilingual card, no message on reverse, scarce and unusual.
Officials: On State Service 1921-23 set of 8 mixed mint & fine used, 6An, 12An & 2r are mint, SG O33/40.
Three commercial covers incl 1944 regd airmail with 25 x 4f violet (SG 211) from Baghdad, two 1949 airmail covers to same correspondence in Mere, Cheshire with airs or other combn. Some faults. (3).
