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The earliest stamps included in the album arc the 1951 KG VI
Rs2, Rs5 and RslO of Bali rain and Kuwait and the Rs2 ‘Value only’.
All the subsequent QE II overprints and surcharges, including the
Watermark changes and the 1957 Scout Jamboree issues, arc also in
the album; together with examples of Aerogrammes overprinted and
surcharged for use in all the Agency Post Offices.
The SPECIMEN overprints are all hand-stamped - generally
horizontally but sometimes diagonally on the small format stamps —
in black. Two types of overprint were used — Serif Capitals 15 x 2mm.
or Sans-Serif Capitals 13 x 2mm.

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The various distinctive definitives issued during the British
administration — the Bahrain sets of 1960 and 1964, the Trucial
States and Qatar sets of 1961 and the Abu Dhabi set of 1964 — were
similarly overprinted at Hemel Hempstead and sent to G.P.O
Headquarters.
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