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Kuwait. In the same year the last of the Indian type cancellers (Type 13)
is recorded; there were two of them, identical in appearance and in the
incorrect spelling. This date is open to some doubt and they may have
been introduced as early as 1942.
The Kuwait-Iraq land frontier was closed once again in 1947 — this
time on account of a Cholera epidemic. Nevertheless, unlike 1941,
Kuwait continued to receive mail, thanks to the personal friendship of
the Oil Company Representative and the Post Master in Basrah! The
former ‘took over’ the Kuwait mail from the latter on his own signature,
conveyed it to the Airport and loaded it on to the Oil Company plane;
when the plane reached Kuwait the mail was ‘handed over’ to the
Kuwait Post Master.

KUWAIT KUWAIT
• t
1 • •
K 0 W E I i
:

Type 14 Type 15 Type 16

For a short time from 1915 the boxed cachet (Type 14) was used
on registered mail. From 1923, however, blank numbered registration
labels were impressed with the small (Type 15) unboxed hand-stamp
(1924—37) or large boxed hand-stamp (Type 16 : 1926-41). With the
exception of a single instance in 1934 when the small hand-stamp was
struck in purple, both are invariably struck in black. Only the large
boxed hand-stamp is found very occasionally impressed directly on to
the cover.
None of these markings appear after April 1941 and the hand-stamps
were obviously removed to Basrah when the Post Office closed.

R 14
experimentalp c KUWAIT
____ K--73--------

Type 17 Type 18

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