Ids Sought For Middle East/Islamic World Stamps

These are Pakistan, right? I think the first one shows the mosque at Lahore.





These are from Lebanon but the overprints are extremely striking. What are they?





I'll be back later with a few more Lebanon and Saudi Arabia mysteries!

Lebanon are Postal tax Scot RA2, RA6

The bottom two are Fiscal stamps overprinted for Postal Tax use.
Between 1945 and 1962 a tax was charged on all inland mail as a fundraiser.
The Brown [5p on 30c] was for the Lebanese Army.
The Blue [5p on 60c] was for Aid for Palestine.

The building on the overprint looks like Beit ed-Din Palace.

The top two are from Hyderabad.The first shows the Char Minar and the two Anna, The High Court of Justice.

Both issued in 1931.

Thanks, Russ, Londonbus1!

The first stamp is an Official stamp from
the Indian state of Hyderabad...The Char Minar

HYDERABAD
Hyderabad city, the capital of the State of the same name, has many splendid buildings—Osmania University, the
High Court, the State Library and the Falaknuma palace, considered to be one of the finest modern buildings in
India. It has many fine public gardens, an interesting museum and a zoo, while nearby are two beautiful lakes
known as Osman Sagar and Himayat Sagar, the old fort of Golconda and the tombs of the Qutb Shahi kings.
Eighty-two miles from Hyderabad, in the pleasant little hill town of Bidar on a plateau 2,300 ft. above sea level, are
the ruins of beautiful buildings of the Bahmani kings.
Other places of archaeological interest in Hyderabad State are the Naganatha temple of Aundha in Parbhani district,
the great temple of Palampet in Warangal district, the Mahadeva temple of Ittagi in Raichur district and the Vishnu
temple of Dishpalli in Nizamabad district. The Naganatha temple closely resembles the famous temple of Halebid
in Mysore. Magnificent specimens of Muslim architecture are the Jama Masjid of Gulbarga with its entire area of
36,720 sq. ft. roofed over (unlike any other mosque in India), the Chand Minar of Daulatabad, 210 ft. high and 70
ft. in circumference at the base, the Madrasah of Mahmud Gawan at Bidar and the Char Minar of Hyderabad, built
in 1549, unique among Indian monuments.


Indians are the second highest ethnic group to become Australians.
Between 2007 and 2009 12,464 passed the citizenship test.

The Char Minar in 1955

Collectors should be aware of the rarity
in the 5p brown overprint

The Top right hand script should look like
the one posted "lb" = "T"
If it is different ("SH") happens once in each sheet of 200)
then this is a rarity

Normal

A small additional point on the two Hyderabad stamps: they're the Service overprinted versions, SG O48 and SG O49.

The 1 Anna is a very interesting stamp. There are endless shade variations







and none of them are listed in Gibbons. You could work up a very nice little study on this stamp for very little: both the ordinary and Service stamps are 10p items used.

Here are four more I can't identify, all presumably from Turkey:

rod222 wrote regarding the Lebanese stamp, 'Collectors should be aware of the rarity in the 5p brown overprint.'

Actually, I have an additional copy of the same stamp but with a different overprint. In the one shown above, the top line of the purple overprint is crossed out in black with two parallel lines and a new text given above, also in black. The other stamp has the overprint without the lines and the new text. Both stamps are the same in the area of the value tablet, where there are numerals in purple and text in black.

Would this other version be of any interest, rod222? If so, I can scan the two stamps side by side.

The first (Turkish) stamp of the second batch looks to me to be overprinted 'matbuah', which if I recall aright, is 'printed matter'. However, Ottoman Turkish is not one of my stronger subjects.

My information comes from a Lebanese collector
and is not listed in Gibbons, or anywhere else AFAIK
and it only concerns that particular opt

Your information should be covered here

Thanks so much, rod222. It's amazing how much knowledge you can marshal, whether directly or indirectly.

I must admit the term 'Typeno-wrap' is new to me but I think I understand what it means.

rod222, reading the info about Hyderabad really makes me regret that I didn't go there during my one and only trip to India. Great photo of the Char Minar, too!

Here's another Turkish stamp I can't identify. It doesn't appear to be listed in my Gibbons Simplified.



Can anyone help?

Quite BTW, there is a Turkish connection in Hyderabad. The mother of the last Nizam was Turkish, and he spent some time there after his fall.

The 10 piastre Turkish stamp is SG967 (Sweet waters of Europe) issued around 1920, but listed in the 1914 set in SG SOTW.