File 1323/1917 Pt 2 'Mesopotamia: Postage Stamps Correspondence with dealers.'

Content

This part of the volume (folios 1-37) contains correspondence related to certain stamps dealers' wish to buy parcels of the overprinted stamps of Mesopotamia/Iraq. The correspondence is also related to the issue of lifting of the prohibition of stamps imported from Mesopotamia.

The correspondence is mainly between stamp dealers such as, Edwin Healey and Company and Whitfield King and Company and the Under-Secretary of State, India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. .

Extent and format

1 item (37 folios)

It is part of

File 1323/1917 Pt 2-5 ‘Mesopotamia: Postage Stamps.'

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/671

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/10/671/1

Former external reference(s)

P 1323/1917 Pt 2

History of this record

Date(s)

13 Jul 1918-27 Aug 1919 (CE, Gregorian)

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