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“Value only” Scout Jamboree used with
Kuwait overprints, registered from H ' v')
Kuwait 29.12.57.
R No nn?A
The Scout Jamboree stamps of 1957 surcharged ‘Value only’, and
also those overprinted ‘Bahrain’ and ‘Qatar’, are known used on covers
from Kuwait.
Philatelic, but quite legitimate!
All these cross-usages were the result of casual carriage (or, in a few
instances, philatelic experiment); but the stamps were accepted without
question because, from the Post Office point-of-view, it made no
difference — the revenue from the sale of all these stamps, whether
overprinted or “Value only”, accrued to the British G.P.O. which ran
the postal services in all these States.
Finally, all the “Value only” stamps remained valid for use in all
the States, either by themselves or in conjunction with the State
definitives, so long as the State had a British Agency Post Office.
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