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Post by rod222 on Aug 22, 2013 14:52:28 GMT
wiki The Kathiris once ruled much of Hadhramaut but their power was truncated by the rival Qu'aitis in the 19th century. The Kathiris were eventually restricted to a small inland portion of Hadhramaut with their capital at Seiyun . The sultanate entered into treaty relations with the British in the late 19th century and became a part of the Aden Protectorate. The Kathiri State declined to join the Federation of South Arabia but remained under British protection as part of the Protectorate of South Arabia. Al Husayn ibn Ali, Kathiri sultan since 1949 was overthrown in October 1967 and, the following month, the former sultanate became part of newly independent South Yemen. wiki map.   Sultan of Seiyun Seiyun    |
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Post by Ryan on Aug 22, 2013 15:17:48 GMT
Hey, the Sultan kind of looks like Frank Zappa. ha ha  Ryan |
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Post by rod222 on Aug 22, 2013 22:39:50 GMT
1967 February Classical exercises of the High School of riding, performed by horse trainers and Lipizzaner stallions of the Spanish riding school in Vienna 5 values, 2 Airmails and 2 Airmail miniature sheets. 50 fils Passage 25 fils Pas de Deux 35 fils Levade    |
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Post by rod222 on Aug 22, 2013 23:00:50 GMT
December 1966 Paintings by Sir Winston Churchill Photolithography perf 13.5 Churchill at easel. Antibes Bouquet of flowers Tapestry at Blenheim Palace Village near lake Lugarno Church at Lake Como Flowers at Chartwell Churchill at easel (coloured)     |
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Post by rod222 on Aug 22, 2013 23:01:59 GMT
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Post by BC on Aug 22, 2013 23:06:38 GMT
Excellent map Rod, I will be snagging that  |
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Post by Ryan on Aug 22, 2013 23:09:29 GMT
Paintings by Sir Winston Churchill Churchill was also a Nobel Prize winner for literature - an amazing man. Ryan |
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Post by rod222 on Aug 22, 2013 23:26:01 GMT
He came with mixed appraisal, I recall my father not shining to him much.
This seems pertinent:
With one anecdote Lord Jenkins puts these quibbles into perspective. Churchill returned from America in 1943 to face domestic criticism. He said that press criticism reminded him of the "tale about the sailor who jumped into a dock, I think it was at Plymouth, to rescue a small boy from drowning. About a week later this sailor was accosted by a woman who asked, "Are you the man who picked my son out of the dock the other night?" The sailor replied modestly, "That is true, ma'am." "Ah," said the woman, "you are the man I am looking for. Where is his cap?"
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Post by rod222 on Aug 22, 2013 23:38:22 GMT
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Post by perfs12 on Aug 29, 2013 8:33:28 GMT
 Seiyun from the airFrom Harold Ingrams, C.M.G., O.B.E. Arabia and The Isles, John Murray, London, 1946 |
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Post by rod222 on Aug 29, 2013 11:44:23 GMT
Wow! that is fabulous Perf12. Thanks so much for sharing. Paints a vivid picture.
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Post by BC on Aug 29, 2013 18:26:52 GMT
Yes, great picture Perfs12! I will have to check Google Earth for a modern view.
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Post by perfs12 on Aug 30, 2013 2:48:59 GMT
 TarimStanley Gibbons describe this image as being "Fortress, Tarim" (SG7) and Scott have it as "Palace at Tarim" (Sc7). Stanley Gibbons credit Freya Stark and H. Ingram as the designers of the stamps in this series. I assume they mean Harold Ingrams. Here is the photo this design was taken from.  Seiyid Umar's houseIn Ingrams' book (cited above) the photograph is captioned "Seiyid Umar's house". Ingrams' first visit to Tarim in 1934: |
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Post by rod222 on Aug 30, 2013 3:47:41 GMT
Lovely stuff, Perf 12, good meaty philately. I am drawn to the author's vast understatement, "Seiyid Umar's house".  I think I'll be a little more realistic and take Michel's adoption, "Fortress in Tarim" The vignette on the stamp, is obviously taken from that photograph, and illustrates the skill of the engraver. Quite extraordinary. |
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Post by Ryan on Aug 30, 2013 8:37:22 GMT
I am drawn to the author's vast understatement, "Seiyid Umar's house". I think I'll be a little more realistic and take Michel's adoption, "Fortress in Tarim" And remember, Yemen is a very poor country. It's one thing to see palaces in Dubai, that's expected, but not Yemen! It's supposed to just get worse as well - it's been predicted that they'll run out of oil by 2017 and all their groundwater is expected to be used up as well. Yikes, they need to go back to the old days and release a few thousand different stamp designs in a period of a couple of years. Ryan |
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Post by rod222 on Aug 30, 2013 8:59:58 GMT
I was somewhat troubled by the obvious opulence, then I considered that perhaps the machine that was the fortress,
would be an employer to vast numbers of the poorer folk. It's probably still paying dividends today.
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Some higher values   SG 9 & 10  SG 11  SG 15   SG 26 & 27   SG 5 & old postcard of AL Mohdhar Mosque Tarim |
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Post by Anping on May 16, 2017 17:57:06 GMT
Here is a pair of the August 1966 issue, with new 50 fils on 1 shilling currency overprint. The right hand copy has the 'extra dot after fils', listed as SG62a:
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Post by Anping on May 23, 2017 18:27:19 GMT
Here's a copy of SG68 from the August 1966 History of Olympic Games issue, with an unlisted variety (at least it's not in Gibbons). This suggests to me that the printers were experimenting with trial overprints for the forthcoming issue in September for the World Cup Football Championships. Note the extraneous LONDON JULY 1966 under the Olympic rings. However, the wording as shown here was not actually used. There is also an apparent broken 'H' in the word SOUTH and a rather squiffy 'A' in ARABIA , but this may be due to poor inking. The overprinted fils value doesn't look too clever either. |
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Post by Anping on May 23, 2017 21:33:26 GMT
This suggests to me that the printers were experimenting with trial overprints for the forthcoming issue in September for the World Cup Football Championships. Note the extraneous LONDON JULY 1966 under the Olympic rings. However, the wording as shown here was not actually used. I didn't clarify what the connection was for using London July 1966: This was when England won the football World Cup in London, at Wembley Stadium. Can we please have an emoticon for 'blowing a bugle' ? |
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Post by Beryllium Guy on May 23, 2017 22:47:07 GMT
This suggests to me that the printers were experimenting with trial overprints for the forthcoming issue in September for the World Cup Football Championships. Note the extraneous LONDON JULY 1966 under the Olympic rings. However, the wording as shown here was not actually used. I didn't clarify what the connection was for using London July 1966: This was when England won the football World Cup in London, at Wembley Stadium. Can we please have an emoticon for 'blowing a bugle' ? How about this?  |
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Post by Anping on May 23, 2017 23:39:25 GMT
Thank you BG. I'm terribly touched!
Your next task is to animate it with 'To the Colour' bugle call.
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