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KUWAIT
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SERVICE

Genuine

length of the word KUWAIT is only 16mm. in the forgeries compared
with the genuine 19mm. The forgers even produced a completely
bogus KUWAIT overprint on a Rs25 Service stamp (with Single Star
Wmk!) and provided it with a forged postmark.

/TEl2\

♦> 8 MAR. 33

Type 8

Although a new telegraphic canceller (Type 8) is reputed to have
been in use by 1932 (possibly from 1929) none of the Ordinary or
Service Multi Star Wmk stamps has ever been reported with a tele­
graphic cancellation (neither Type 4 not Type 8). This, of course, is as
it should be; for telegram forms were retained in the Kuwait Post Office
for 15 days after the message had been despatched and were then sent to
the Check Office in Baghdad where they were meant to be destroyed
after 18 months (and, obviously, were!). Nevertheless, it seems a pity
that not one example of the Type 8 cancellation has ever been seen and
it has only been possible to illustrate it from a description given by a
one-time Post Master.
There was little postal use for values above Rs2, either for
Ordinary or Service mail. Used copies of the Ordinary Rs5, RslO and

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