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Type 10 Type 10A Type 10B

This uncertainty continued through the first half of this century.
Starting in 1915 as GUADUR (Type 9), it had changed to GWADUR
(Type 10) by 1927: six years later it reverted to GUADUR (Types
9A, 11 and 11 A) and it was not until 1955 that GWADUR came into
its own again (Types 10A and 10B).

Type 11 Type 11A

Type 11 was dropped on its head in early youth and invariably
shows the damaged upper arc of the outer circle! The ‘killer* arc
types never appeared with GWADUR spelling.
Apart from the definitive Indian K.G.V. stamps, the lower values
of the 1929 air mail issue, the 1931 New Delhi and the 1935 Silver
Jubilee issues may also be found used in Guadur, but there was still
little use for values above 4 annas except on telegrams. The rate for a
registered air mail letter to Karachi was only 9 annas.

Imperial Airways inaugurated their Cairo-Karachi service on
April 4th, 1929. Originally routed via Basra and following the Persian
coast to Guadur, the route was changed to the Southern coast, via

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