Omani Air Mail ... Or Is It?

The story so far...

I was going through some stamps from my old Harris Statesman album - the one I worked on when I was around 10 years old, when I came upon this one. At first, I was going to put it in the junk pile - it seemed CTO and the stamp has quite a bit of damage. Then I decided, "What the hey ... let's see if it appears in Scott". It didn't - no surprise, really - I have a fair number of 'desert' issues. Then I noticed that it is labelled "State of Oman". That raised my eyebrows, since all the stamp issues in Scott are "Sultanate of Oman"

Which brings me to my question ... is this a bogus stamp of some form, or is there another story behind it? Any information would be more than welcome.

DB

Yes, it's considered bogus or a cinderalla. I don't know much more, but many, many types were printed in bulk in the late 1960's through early 1970's.

I found a bit of information about them from this philatelic site - http://rainbowstampsandcoins.blogsp...n-bogus.html