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doubtful if they were actually sold in the Post Office, even though they
arc known used on ordinary and registered covers. Some of these covers
appear to be commercial - one carries a block of six tea. with inverted
overprint postmarked 12.5.26 - but most arc of philatelic origin,
addressed in 1926 to the International Stamp and Commercial Agency,
65 Esplanade Road, Bombay.

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There must have been some doubt in the mind of the Postmaster,
for many of these covers were marked with the Kuwait Postage Due
cachet (subsequently cancelled); and there is, perhaps, a clue to the back­
1 ground of these inverted overprints in a letter No. 2067A sent on
November l lth, 1927 to the Director-General of the Posts and Telegraphs
Dept, in Iraq by the International Stamp and Commercial Agency -

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