India op ID please.

need assistance to locate these, please.
http://cjoint.com/data/hpaF0W1CUY.htm
Thanks.

In article ,
"Rod" wrote:

need assistance to locate these, please.
http://cjoint.com/data/hpaF0W1CUY.htm

Oman or Muscat and Oman.

Thank you Jeffry.


"Jeffry L. Johnson" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Rod" wrote:

need assistance to locate these, please.
http://cjoint.com/data/hpaF0W1CUY.htm

Oman or Muscat and Oman.

Someone identified these stamps as for use in Muscat and Oman. This
is not exactly true. The issue was for use only in the Muscat post office,
as Oman had no post offices. The postal services of Muscat were run by
the Indian Government, and Indian stamps were used without any
overprint. They can be identified by postmarks with Muscat or with a
number assigned by the Indian postal authorities. At that time, Muscat
and Zanzibar were ruled by two cousins of the Al Bu Said dynasty.
The Arabic overprint reads: Aal Bu Sa'id. The double A stands for an "a"
sounded as a long aaah. The apostrophe in Bu Sa'id stands for an
Arabic consonant does not exist in any other language that I know of.

To commemorate the bicentenary of the dynasty, two sets of stamps
were issued. For Zanzibar, there was a special issue inscribed
"AL BUSIED DYNASTY 1744-1944", SAG 327-330. As Muscat did not have
stamps of its own, stamps of India were overprinted in Arabic "Al Bu Sad
1363" The Hegira year 1363 corresponds to 1944 AD. This issue was
used in Muscat, the only post office there.. SAG catalogs them under
Muscat, #1-15, and #O1-O10 for official use..

Tony

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need assistance to locate these, please.
http://cjoint.com/data/hpaF0W1CUY.htm
Thanks.








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Thanks for that very knowledgeable clarification Tony.
The image is archived.

"A.E. Gelat" wrote in message
...
Someone identified these stamps as for use in Muscat and Oman. This
is not exactly true. The issue was for use only in the Muscat post
office,
as Oman had no post offices. The postal services of Muscat were run by
the Indian Government, and Indian stamps were used without any
overprint. They can be identified by postmarks with Muscat or with a
number assigned by the Indian postal authorities. At that time, Muscat
and Zanzibar were ruled by two cousins of the Al Bu Said dynasty.

"A.E. Gelat" wrote in message
...
Someone identified these stamps as for use in Muscat and Oman. This
is not exactly true. The issue was for use only in the Muscat post
office,
as Oman had no post offices. The postal services of Muscat were run by
the Indian Government, and Indian stamps were used without any
overprint. They can be identified by postmarks with Muscat or with a
number assigned by the Indian postal authorities. At that time, Muscat
and Zanzibar were ruled by two cousins of the Al Bu Said dynasty.

Yes, thanks for the history lesson.

I guess I should have replied that these overprints are listed under the
country Oman in Scott and Michel and under the country Muscat in Stanley
Gibbons and Minkus.