Posted in Iraq Stamps on January 30th, 2007 No Comments »
After the first Gulf war, the north of Iraq was out of Iraqi government control and there was a kind of* state in the north where the Kurds live (Kurdistan) and they used to have their own government and their own money and also their own stamps.
Anyway with the fall of the Saddam regime and […]
Posted in Iraq Stamps on January 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Similar to the Macedonian army artistamps features before, here is a set commemorating the Georgian Army involvement in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Posted in Iraq Stamps on January 25th, 2007 1 Comment »
Here are two sets of stamps commemorating the Iraqi provinces of Salahaddin and Basra.
Notice the value on the Salahaddin stamps in Arabic is actually reversed, an error!! :D
Posted in Iraq Stamps on January 24th, 2007 No Comments »
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 home […]
Posted in Iraq Stamps on January 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Written by ahmed zaki
1st sign
what si this 3 after An ? it just does not make sense to see such an error
2nd sign
the 1 is just too thick
3rd sign
the 1 and the An are leveled (one the same line) and if you verify all these forged stamps we can see that the distance and level […]
Posted in Iraq Stamps on January 16th, 2007 No Comments »
This ridiculous attempt at fooling people into thinking this is a genuine error has to be the most outragious I have seen so far on eBay.
Judge for yourself. The World Cup 2002 MS, one has only the world cup and the other has the world cup missing, how convienient !!
Posted in Iraq Stamps on January 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Well I didn't know this but Macedonia was part of the coalition that invaded Iraq in 2003, and i found these stamps for sell on eBay which are artistamps. Not official stamps but certainly interesting and well made.
Posted in Iraq Stamps on January 5th, 2007 No Comments »
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 an Australian […]
Posted in Iraq Stamps on January 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
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 we have […]
Posted in Iraq Stamps on January 1st, 2007 No Comments »
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 visible […]
