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stamps and postal history of AfghanistanThe Lion Issues - Stamps dated 1288 - Stamps dated 1290 - The 1291 Issue - The Tablet Issue - The 1292 Issue - The 1293-95 Issues plus many other pages From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia If you are a collector of Afghanistan you could help by logging onto Wikipedia and improving their page on Afghanistan and maybe some others. Stamps of Distiction Afghanistan The first postage stamp of Afghanistan (identified as the Kingdom of Kabul) was issued in 1871. The stamp design showed a lion's head as the central emblem. The lion's head was symbolic of the reigning emir; "Sher" means "lion" in Dari, the language spoken in Afghanistan. Early translators and stamp catalogues mistakenly interpreted the word "Sher" as "tiger" by translating from Hindi... by Tony Servies The 19th Century Cancellations on the Postage Stamps of Afghanistan by Capt U A G Isani Imtiaz Rizvi, Pakistan Philatelic Club Illegal Postage Stamps Issues - Afghanistan During the period 1989 to 2001 no postage stamps were issued by Afghanistan, but numerous bogus issues appeared on the market. Details of some of these can be found on this page. Site maintained by Victor Manta, Switzerland SNIPPETS FROM GIBBONS' STAMP MONTHLY from the February 1930 issue page 97 "Thanks to the courtesy of
Mr F H Zahid we are kept au courant with
Afghan affairs. We now learn that the stamps of the unfortunate
Habibullah, which were forecast in these columns in September, were all
destroyed by the followers of Nadir Khan when the citadel in Kabul fell
on October 13/14 last. As
supplies of the previous issues were
running low, correspondance to India arrived about the end of October
unstamped, postage being paid at the India end. However, this shortage
should now be at an
end as the new king, Nadir Khan, has had a fresh issue printed in the
same designs as the 1927-28 types, but with colours changed and the
addition of three high values, viz. 5,10 and 25 Afghani."
from the February 1931 issue page 102 "Mr F H Zahid states
that
since the
revolution, with its accompanying looting, has left the majority of the
post offices without cancellation stamps, mail is penmarked with Afghan
characters, and then postmarked with Indian date-stamp when the
frontier is reached."
from the April 1932 issue page 148 "An interesting point with
regard to the
monument on the design of the large 20 puls commemorative stamp of 1931
(SG 214) is brought to our notice by Col F Molesworth, who tells us
that the event it is intended to celebrate (the capture of Thal by
Nadir Khan’s forces in the Afghan War of 1919) never occurred. Nadir
Khan only besieged the town and was driven off in ignominious rout by a
relieving force led by the late Brig-Gen Dyer. Our informant continues,
that in every engagement with the Afghan regular troops during this
war, the Afghans were thoroughly beaten, a statement which leads us to
believe that the stamp is merely a piece of anti-British propaganda."
BOOKS ON AFGHANISTAN STAMPS AND AFGHANISTAN POSTAL HISTORY Afghanistan, Its Twentieth Century Postal Issues by Frank E Patterson, Collectors Club Handbook No 18, 1964, 208pp, 1st edition Afghanistan, Its Twentieth Century Postal Issues  3rd edition, December 1965, ISBN 0912574186 The postage stamps of Afghanistan  by David P Masson and B Gordon Jones, 1908 Covers the Sher Ali series of 1870-1878, Abdur Rahman series of the 1880's, Rectangular Issues of 1907-08. This book was later privately reprinted by a collector frustrated by the scarcity of the original work. The Afghan Campaign 1841-43 The Letters Of Captain William Riddell  by Peter Collins, 1973, Robson Lowe, 28pp An analysis of the 148 letters in Captain Riddell's correspondence, much history and postal history. Afghanistan 1840-1996 postal history handbook by John M Wilkins, 2000, The Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria, 96pp Afghanistan 1840-2002 postal history handbook  by John M Wilkins, 2002, The Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria, 108pp spiralbound, ISBN 0958028508 A revision of '1840-1996' Edition Afghanistan. Postal History of the Second Afghan war, 1878-1881, together with The Boundary Commission, 1885, and general notes  by Adrian Edmund Hopkins, 1961 Afghanistan Revisited: Philatelic Stationery, Revenues and Forgeries - 1871-2004 by Richard Divall and John M Wilkins, 2005, Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria Incorporated, 124pp, ISBN 0947345191 This was a limited edition of 100 copies Annotated Bibliography on Afghan stamps  by Cecil H Uyehara, self published, 1974 Post Offices of the Second Afghan war 1878-1881: With a general account of the Postal History of Afghanistan  by Adrian Edmund Hopkins, Postal History Society, 1965 |
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