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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.

1944 Children’s Association Welfare in Nejef, very interesting item, the earliest Iraqi cinderella stamp I have seen.

I found this on eBay too, but there is no verification that its actually anything to do with Iraq.

International Conference to Protect Youth’s Rights

Some more armies artistamps you can purchase on eBay right now, they commemorate the participation of the Czech and Lithuanian army participation in the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

These are not from this site so it is not sold here.