Never/////Ever Seen Before!

Since Syria has been in the news every day for several years, I was browsing through Scott looking for useful info, since I don't collect the country, and know little about Syrian philately except that Bashar al-Assad's mug shows up pretty often.

And what did I find but a "country" I NEVER remember seeing before. Nestled in two pages between Syria and UAR-Syria, I found a section of "Arabian Government in Syria (1920s)," about 100 stamps whose squiggly writing would severely test anyone's identification skills. Some are rare, some catalog 20c, but they were entirely NEW to me. I'm sure they're valuable on cover. Take a look!

Doug, I am looking as hard as I can, are they micro sized? (yuk yuk)

Yakboomer, we have seen all sorts of innovations on stamps! Stamps that smell, stamps that turn into a book, etc etc, This here are stamps issued by special services, printed with invisible ink!

Peter

Neat! I would be searching through Turkey for the longest time if I ever came across any of those stamps.

The stamps in question are between the END of regular Syria and the START of United Arab Republic-Syrian issues. They take up about one side of a page in my 2008 Scott.

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Battle, it's not often you find stamps overprinted with a hairball.

I have four cats - anything is possible!

@ Doug
Try to solve the puzzle by reading here :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Syria

No puzzle, but that's a really interesting article. Good thing I didn't major in Syrian history at Ohio State...

About the " Arabian Government in Syria (1920s)," ( which supposedly issued the stamps you are pointing at ) you can read in details here :

http://www.ask.com/wiki/Franco-Syri...801&qsrc=999