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KUWAIT

Type 1 10 RUPEES

KUWAIT

Type II 10 RUPEES

relation to “RUPEES”. The two types of RslO differ in the spacing of
“1” and “0”. In Type 1 they are spaced 1mm. apart, and in Type II the
space is only %mm. (the “0” being further away from “R” than in Type
I). So far as the Rs2 is concerned, the Type II was perhaps a stop-gap
until the Q.E.II definitives were available in September 1955. The
print order must have been less than 500 sheets, the normal require­
ments for this value being about 15,000 stamps a year. The third bar
variety (Row 7/2) did not occur on this printing. The annual require­
ments of the RslO were 9,000 copies, and the Type II was possibly the
result of an under-estimate made in 1951.
In 1973 a third type of the RslO overprint was discovered; it is
similar to Type II in appearance and in the spacing of ‘1* and ‘O’ , but
there is a full 10mm. between the two lines of the overprint, compared
with only 9mm. on Types I and II. No unused copy has yet been found,
and it may well turn out that this was a very small stop-gap type-set
printing, the whole of which was sent out to Kuwait.

In April—May 1951 (and again in February-June 1953) during
shortages in the main Bahrain stocks of 3a and 6a K.G.VI stamps with
KUWAIT overprint, “Value Only” stamps (G.B. K.G.VI surcharged

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