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Sharjah and Dependencies
Stamps and Postal Stationery: 1965

 

13 January 1965
Officials
Issues from the 1963 Definitive series were overprinted in black with ON STATE SERVICE in English going up the left side and in the Arabic equivalent on right side.

20 February 1965
Birds

26 April 1965
Progress in Science, Transport and Communications
The pairs of same values issued tête-bêche.

28 April 1965
Commemorating Winston Churchill
22 November 1964 Pres. Kennedy issue overprinted with In Memoriam / Sir Winston Churchill / 1874 - 1965 in English and Arabic.

28 June 1965
10th Anniversary of the Arab Postal Union's Permanent Office

Shaikh Saqr bin Sultan al Qasimi was replaced on June 24, 1965 by Shaikh Khalid bin Mohammed al Qasimi.

August 1965
Provisionals
Various stamps were overprinted locally with either 3 or 4 bars covering the image of Shaikh Saqr.
Issues from the 1963 Definitive series were overprinted in black with 4 bars of equal length.

Issues from the 1963 Definitive series were overprinted in violet with 3 thick bars.

Issues from the 1964 Air Mail Pictorial series were overprinted in black with 4 thin bars; the top and bottom bars are shorter than the middle two.

Issues from the 1964 Air Mail Pictorial series were overprinted in black with 4 thick bars; the top and bottom bars are shorter than the middle two.

Issues from the 1964 Air Mail Pictorial series overprinted in violet with 3 thick bars of equal length.

1 September 1965
Provisionals
Issues from the 1963 Definitive series were overprinted in London, England in black with 3 thick bars of equal length.

6 September 1965
Safeguarding Nubian Monuments

25 September 1965
100th Anniversary of the International Telecommunications Union

15 December 1965
Pan-Arab Games - Cairo, Egypt
Issued se-tenant vertically

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