Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia - Qatar - Postal History

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This page describes a number of items from Qatar, all of which display cross-usage of some aspect.

Cancellation Types are described according to the categorisation by Neil Donaldson in his excellent "The Postal Agencies of Eastern Arabia and the Gulf" (1975) and its "Supplement" (1994).

There are pictures of many of the items but, rather than have readers waiting a long time for all of the pictures to come in, I leave it to you to click on "view" to pull down photos of the items which interest you. Some of the pictures are a bit dark when viewed at my regular "working brightness" but just turning up the brightness shows the details far better.

Item Description Price

QAT1/01 Early airmail cover to UK. Postage is paid by 3 x KGVI 2As stamps of Bahrain (SG 54), cancelled DOHA cds (Donaldson Type 2) dated 12 OC 50. The cancellation is in the "dirty blue-black" to which Donaldson refers on p219. View. On the reverse, the senders (??) handstamp confirms that (postally) Qatar was reached via Bahrain. View Ł 20
Sold

QAT1/02 Early surface mail cover to UK. Postage is paid by KGVI ½A and 2 x KGVI 1A stamps of Bahrain (SG 51 / 52), cancelled DOHA cds (Donaldson Type 2) dated NO 12 50. The cancellation is in the "dirty blue-black" to which Donaldson refers on p219. View It appears that in these early days the Doha Post Office did not have the same discipline as the more established offices .... on this cancellation the Day and Month are reversed from the cancellation in QAT1/01 Ł 20
Sold

QAT1/03 Interesting airmail cover to Portugese India with postage paid by a curious combination of stamps from Qatar (QEII 25np), BPAinEA (QEII 3np) and Bahrain (QEII 2 Annas) all cancelled by the Umm Said cds (Donaldson Type 8) dated 7(?) AP 61. View Ł 10
Sold

QAT1/04 Registered airmail cover to UK. Postage paid by BPA in EA QEII 12 As (SG50), cancelled 7 AP 56 (Donaldson Type 10) at the Umm Said office which had opened in February of that year. Note that the Registration label is inscribed BAHRAIN. This is contrary to Donaldson's note page 229 and may indicate that the Umm Said labels were not prepared/received in time for the opening of the Umm Said post office. Creased but stamp and cancellation are o.k. View Ł 16
Sold

See MUS1/02 for DOHA cds used as receiver for surface mail.

Item	Description	Price
QAT1/01	Early airmail cover to UK. Postage is paid by 3 x KGVI 2As stamps of Bahrain (SG 54), cancelled DOHA cds (Donaldson Type 2) dated 12 OC 50. The cancellation is in the "dirty blue-black" to which Donaldson refers on p219. View. On the reverse, the senders (??) handstamp confirms that (postally) Qatar was reached via Bahrain. View	Ł 20 Sold
QAT1/02	Early surface mail cover to UK. Postage is paid by KGVI ½A and 2 x KGVI 1A stamps of Bahrain (SG 51 / 52), cancelled DOHA cds (Donaldson Type 2) dated NO 12 50. The cancellation is in the "dirty blue-black" to which Donaldson refers on p219. View It appears that in these early days the Doha Post Office did not have the same discipline as the more established offices .... on this cancellation the Day and Month are reversed from the cancellation in QAT1/01	Ł 20 Sold
QAT1/03	Interesting airmail cover to Portugese India with postage paid by a curious combination of stamps from Qatar (QEII 25np), BPAinEA (QEII 3np) and Bahrain (QEII 2 Annas) all cancelled by the Umm Said cds (Donaldson Type 8) dated 7(?) AP 61. View	Ł 10 Sold
QAT1/04	Registered airmail cover to UK. Postage paid by BPA in EA QEII 12 As (SG50), cancelled 7 AP 56 (Donaldson Type 10) at the Umm Said office which had opened in February of that year. Note that the Registration label is inscribed BAHRAIN. This is contrary to Donaldson's note page 229 and may indicate that the Umm Said labels were not prepared/received in time for the opening of the Umm Said post office. Creased but stamp and cancellation are o.k. View	Ł 16 Sold
	See MUS1/02 for DOHA cds used as receiver for surface mail.