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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.

I anyone know what this is, please use the contact form, you will find the link at the top of this page.

[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.

Due to popular demand, I have re-issued 8 sets of stamps which I released in 2003-2003, the only difference is these are perforated rather than 5 years ago, they were imporforated and on sticker paper.

The sets describe the events from before the fall Baghdad in 2003 and continues to document the events after.

The sets are as follows:

1) Sahaf (Information Minister)
2) UN resolution on IRAQ
3) Last time Saddam was seen in public
4) Most wanted playing cards
5) Fall of Baghdad
6) New Flag
7) New Currency
Signing of the new interim constitution

1) After a long wait, you can now purchase the new artistamps features in the new year.

2) The popular Iraq provinces set (18 stamps) now only 2 left

3) South Iraq set (2 left) 

They are now in the shop area, click here to go to the shop

New sets of artistamps were released and could be purchased from eBay right now, they commemorate the involvement of the El Salvador and Latvian armies in Iraq.

These are not available through iraq-stamps.com, only through the owner on eBay, you just need to do a quick search. 

To coincide with the release of the artistamp sets mentioned in earlier posts, I have released 3 FDCs to complement the stamp releases. These are seen below.

As far as I know the Iraq post office has never released any Christmas stamps since its existence. I took the opportunity of this occasion to commemorate a very significant award on the 25th of November 2007, when Pope Benedict XVI ordained Patriarch Emmanuel III Delly as the head of the Chaldean Church in Iraq and the world and reiterated his support for the Iraqi people.

Patriarch Emmanuel III Delly was one of 23 new cardinals elevated by the pontiff in a ceremony held at St. Peter’s Church and attended by delegates from a wide range of countries.

Emmanuel III was born in 1927 in a tiny village near Mosul in Northern Iraq, where Christians have been practicing their religion for around 2,000 years and some still speak Aramaic, the language of Jesus.

The number of Iraq’s Christian Community was a million and a half before the regime change in April 2003, but has decreased in the recent years because of the deteriorating security condition in the country and they now number around 750,000.

The top religious title granted by the Vatican to Patriarch Emmanuel is the first awarded to an Iraqi Christian in Iraq’s contemporary history.

On the 16th of December 2006, British troops transferred control of Basra province to the Iraqi authorities, four-and-a-half years after the invasion. The handover marked a significant milestone towards Britain’s final withdrawal from southern Iraq.

In a ceremony at Basra airport, British and Iraqi representatives signed a memorandum of understanding to formalise the handover.  The 4,500 British troops still in Iraq will now take a backseat role, focusing on training Iraqi forces.

There are 4 stamps in this set and its the first time I use a diamond shape stamp shape.

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