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VvN Hijra year corresponding to 1944; the 1 Vi anna (ordinary) is known
with double overprint. This value, and the 12 annas, can also be
found with apparent double overprints resulting from a ‘touch’ -
"M but these are not true double overprints.
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The lower values of the ordinary set arc occasionally found
used on commercial mail and the rupee values very rarely. The majority
%
of used copies, and almost all the Service set, come from philatelic
covers. Those used whilst the stamps remained on sale were usually
?-r cancelled with Type 14 or, more rarely, with Type 15; but many sets
were cancelled-to-order in 1946 with Type 14A. The issue is known
with forged overprints and with forged, or bogus, cancellations. It also
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exists cancelled-to-order with the British Type 22 canceller from which
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the central date-slugs and asterisk had been removed.
The Indian Victory issue of 1946 was placed on sale in Muscat
but covers are hard to find. Cancellations on these stamps are either
- Type 15 or, more rarely, Type 14A.

Indian Service stamps of all four reigns were used in Muscat
on rare occasions. They were mainly low values not above 8 annas,
and were probably used only from the office of the Political Agent or
by military detachments during the two World Wars.

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£ 32

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