IRAQ - BAGHDAD 1917 SG6, 11b, 17 Cancel

Stock Code: P223004941

1917 (1 Sept) 2a on 1pi bright blue (Mosque), right marginal, 2a on 1pi black and violet "Postal Jubilee" (two examples, one with rounded corner) and 2a on 1pi ultramarine (GPO), each surch as type 1, with matching large part strikes of (Indian) "F.P.O. 12" double-ring cds (Proud type D2), dated "4 NOV 18". Late use by favour, and the first and last off-centre, nevertheless an extraordinary and fascinating group, with instances of this cancel on Baghdad stamps not previously recorded, and unknown to Khalastchy in his exhaustive 2017 monograph. [According to Proud, FPO 12 was in Iraq 1916-17, but then transferred to the E.E.F. with recorded locations in Palestine and Beirut (20/10/1918 - 3/1/1920). However, recorded usage prior to 20/10/1918 apparently involved only the very different type D1 cds with "F.P.O. / No. 12", and usage of this type D2 cds is only attested between 22/1/1919 and 3/1/1920, beginning 11 weeks after its application to these Baghdad stamps. We can speculate that the type D2 cds must have remained in storage in Iraq, after the transfer of FPO 12 from the MEF to the EEF, and was only sent to Beirut at a much later date.] These Baghdad stamps were surely cancelled in Baghdad, NOT Beirut !!! ; they emanate from a small recently discovered cache - a mixture of unmounted mint and cancelled - which had remained untouched for over 100 years.

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