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generally carried no BASRA transit postmarks, all those seen from
December 8th, 1937, onwards are transit marked; and it is apparent
that this mail was sent to Basra by road.

In 1939 the new Indian KG VI stamps from 14a. to Rsl5 (less 9p.,
2'4a. and 314a.) were overprinted for use in Kuwait. The original over­
printings on the Rs2 were on stamps with the violet-purple centre; but
later overprintings were on the post-war stamps with deep purple centre.
The Rs 15 is known with the watermark inverted.
The Indian KG VI Rupee stamps were printed in the same sheet
formal as the later KG V printings (120 in 6 panes, each 5 x 4). The
same overprinting plate as had been prepared for the KG V Rs5 and
Rsl 5 was used for the first overprintings of all the KG VI Rupee values;
and the extended ‘T again appears on Row 3/2 of the lower left hand
pane.

IT IT IT

Extended “T”. 1st repair 2nd repair
Following the first overprinting, the extended T’ was twice
repaired. The first involved cutting the stem of the ‘T’ to its correct
width, but it was apparently not noticed that the stem remained too
long, the second repair involved the removal of the excess length.
Both repairs left traces of the original extension; but the first repair
has so far only been seen on the Rs2 and the second repair only on
the RslO.
Two major varieties have been recorded: a single copy of the R1
is known with triple overprint, the second being about 14mm. to the
right of the normal and the third being inverted about 8mm. above the
normal. One sheet of RslO was found with double overprint more
prominent on the left hand panes and less prominent on the right hand
panes. This sheet must have come from one of the later overprintings
as both the normal‘T’ and its double show, on Row 3/2 of the lower
left hand pane, the traces of the second repair to the extended ‘T\

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