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Forged overprints of the Rupee values arc known applied to used
G.B. stamps rc-canccllcd with forged KUWAIT postmarks. They arc
crudely hand-stamped and arc easily recognised. The “2 RUPEES”
on 2s. 6d. was even provided with a forged inverted “KUWAIT”!

The G.B. Silver Wedding (May 1st) and Olympic Games (July
29th) stamps, with suitable overprints and surcharges, were also issued
in 1948. The 3a. surcharge on Olympic Games were all on 3d. sheets
from Cylinder 1 (stop) and the “Crown Flaw” consequently does not
appear (see “Value Only Surcharges”). The 6a. of the same issue was on
6d. sheets from Cylinder 9 (stop), and the initials “HLP” will be found
erased from the Jubilee Lines below Nos. 118-120. Unlike the basic
stamp, the Kuwait overprinted stamp has never been found with these
initials unrctouched.
The Registration Sheet in the National Postal Museum shows the initials
erased.
The Shaikh Ahmad commemorative labels (see under KUWAIT
in Part I) of 1948 and 1949 are occasionally seen on covers bearing the
overprinted issues of 1948.
The U.P.U. set was issued on October 10th, 1949; and the 2V£a.
on 2!4d., being from Cylinder 2 (no stop), shows the “Indian Lake”
variety on Row 8/2. (For details see under BAHRAIN)

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2 AU 2 AU
50 & 50 .

Type 25 Type 26

Since 1946, the Kuwait Oil Company had operated a Mail Office
in Ahmadi, the Company’s administrative centre some 20 miles out in
the desert south of Kuwait Town, and named “Ahmadi” after Shaikh
Ahmad al Jabir who had granted the oil concession in 1934. From

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