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Type 21 Type 22

Indian cancellers Types 14 and 14A continued in use well into
1949, cancelling stamps and also for back-stamping incoming mail.
British-type cancellers (Types 21 and 22) were probably in use by 1949,
but there is no local record of the actual date of introduction.
Type 22 with asterisk and date slugs removed was used to cancel-
to-order sets of the A1 bu Said overprints of 1944.

Contemporary Great Britain stamps of K.G.VI to 3d., 6d., Is.
and 2s.6d., surcharged in ANNAS and RUPEES were issued on April 1st,
1948, and replaced the Indian stamps with Nasik PAKISTAN overprint.
Although Guadur remained a dependency of Muscat until September
8th, 1958, the G.B. surcharged stamps were not issued there, and Guadur
continued to use the stamps of Pakistan.
All the subsequent surcharged stamps detailed in the previous
section were issued in Muscat, with the almost certain exception of the
P/£a. on Wid. (St. Edward’s Crown watermark).
There was very little commercial use for the Rs5 on 5/- QE II
added to the series on March 1st. 1957, and the majority of used copies
are of philatelic origin. Neither of the varieties on the first Waterlow
printing — the re-entry on Row 8/1 and the ‘wide’ surcharge on Row
8/4 — have been recorded used from Muscat.

On April 1st. 1957 Muscat adopted the new Indian Decimal
currency, and the stamps below R1 were re-issued with surcharges
in N.P. (Naye Paise). Certain of the later issues on Crown only paper
(1960-61) may have been only sold in Muscat, although they are known
used in other of the States which still had a British Postal Agency.

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