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“It has been brought to our notice that the Kuwait Post Office is
under the control of the Iraq Government. If this is so, we .write to point
out to you that our Agents at Kuwait inform us that the inverted over­
printed stamps are not accepted for postage by the Kuwait Post Office
and we are told that the matter has been referred to you for orders.
These inverted overprint Kuwaits are errors officially issued and have
been admitted as such and, therefore, their status as postage stamps arc
the same for franking purposes as the ordinary stamps and should be
admitted as such. We would therefore submit that this matter may
receive your consideration and that you should direct the Kuwait Post
Office to accept the inverted overprints for postage."
A constant variety occurs on the Ordinary stamps on Row 1/14
of the top pane where the ‘T* is damaged: although this has so far been
seen only on la., 1 Via. (Type A), 2I/£a. and 3a. (or—brown), it must have
occurred on all the Anna values of at least one - and, possibly, all - of
the overprintings.
There is an even more interesting variety so far seen only on the
Ordinary R1 and Rs2 values, but - almost certainly - to be found on the
Rs5 and RslO also. The overprint on Row l/l of a pane has two
particular characteristics - a nick in the lower inside of the vertical leg
of ‘K’ and a white square in the right leg of ‘A’ opposite the cross-bar.
The sheets were of 96 stamps, arranged in 8 panes (2 x 4) each of 12
stamps (4 x 3), and the pane concerned is almost certainly that from the
top left of the sheet. As with the variety on the Anna values it is
impossible to say whether this occurred on only one, or all, of the
overprintings.

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