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Bahrain
10th August 1933
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Middle East | 10 |  |
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| November 1933 Sc1 | August 1933 Sc2 | xxx |
perf 14, wmk multiple stars
| Description | Date | Scott | SG | Mi | Y&T | |
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| Stamps of India, overprinted | ||||||
| 3 pies slate green | Nov 1933 | 1 | 1 | |||
| ½ anna green | 10 Aug 1933 | 2 | 2 | |||
| other values 9p to 5 rupees | 3-14 | 3-14 | ||||
Walker (see Syria) writes, " BAHRAIN, the first country on the [alphabetical] list, is simple. It issued its first stamp in 1933 and has remained philatelically stable since then."
Gibbons [1] describes Bahrain as, "an independent sheikhdom with an Indian postal admministration from 1844. A British postal administration operated from April 1948 to December 1965 … Unoverprinted Indian stamps were used [until 1933]."