File 1323/1917 Pt 2-5 ‘Mesopotamia: Postage Stamps.'

Title:

File 1323/1917 Pt 2-5 ‘Mesopotamia: Postage Stamps.'

Date:

1917/1921

Description:

Abstract: The volume contains correspondence in the form of letters, memoranda and telegrams related to the supply of overprinted stamps of Mesopotamia/Iraq. The main issues discussed in the volume are the following:The question of whether to continue using the overprinted Turkish stamps after the declaration of peace or notThe currency to be adopted in Mesopotamia and the preparation of new designs for postage and revenue stampsThe required supply of overprinted Turkish stamps to the Civil Post Office in BaghdadBradbury, Wilkinson and Company, Limited to provide the monthly supply of the overprinted stampsHarrison and Sons Limited to provide the overprinted Ottoman Government envelopes and reply letter cards/postal stationeryThe increase of charges on printing stamps and currencyThe reopening of the Turkish civil post office at Mosul Vilayet [province]The question of which overprint to use on the available Turkish stampsThe arrangement of four sets of stamps of each variety to be sent to His Majesty King George V, the Imperial War Museum, and to the General Post OfficeThe request of certain stamp dealers to buy parcels of the overprinted stamps of Mesopotamia.The main correspondents in the volume are: John Evelyn Shuckburgh; the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad; the Foreign Office; Bradbury, Wilkinson and Company, Limited; Harrison and Sons Limited; the Imperial War Museum; the General Post Office, London; and a number of stamp dealers such as, Edwin Healey and Company and Whitfield King and Company.This volume consists of four parts. Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 342; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Postage stamps
Imperial Government of the Ottoman Empire

Geographic region:

Baghdad Vilayet
Mosul Vilayet
Iraq
Mesopotamia

Rights:

رخصة المشاع الإبداعي لأغراض غير تجارية

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000236_ar
81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000236_en
IOR/L/PS/10/671
IOR/L/PS/10/671

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