Overland Mail Baghdad-Haifa Pages
Imprinted Envelopes, cont. New Listed
For the first time i noted and recorded here that various Imprinted Envelopes exist in several envelope sizes,
Notes:
Black and White (B/W) images are images copied from the handbook and are only shown as reference, neither in actual size, nor are they described.
If a link in the column "Cover Image" is provided, a fully size high resolution image of the cover bearing the respective Handstamp. That image will open in a new layer.
If you copy the image that has been scanned from the original cover and open and enlarge it with a graphic program you will see measuring lines around the handstamp imprint. These lines indicate the measuring border from which the actual measurement has been taken.
Handbook Number | Image | Cover Image | Handbook Size | Measured size | Size of Envelope | Comment |
IE-N01 |
| Not Listed | 59,30 x 9,20 mm | 155,80 x 101,70 mm. | A new discovery, found on a cover dated 04. March 1937 from Hinadi via Baghdad to London. So far only this copy is known. | |
IE-N02 |
| Not Listed | 56,30 x 14,90 mm | A new discovery, found on a cover from Kadimiyeh Press, Basrah, dated 6. Jun3 1933, from Basrah to Leipzig, Germany. So far only this copy is known. | ||
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| Not Listed |
| 136 x 108 mm
While the imprint is apparently identical from type IE-NL03b below, the size of envelope is different from type IE-NL03b | On a 13 December 1939 letter of a German civil internee from the R.A.F. Internment Camp in HABBANIYA/Iraq with single franking 15 Fils, with British censorship "PASSED BY R.A:F. CENSOR No. 44" (with crown), Iraq. Censorship and OKW censorship via ALEP (11.1.40) to Halle/Saale Similar to IE-50 but without full stop (.) after Mail. Item not in my collection, hence, since of the imprint can not be indicated. Also the size of the envelope is done by ruler only. |
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| Not Listed | 45,70 x 5,10 mm | 136,10 x 106,50 mm |
Set on 12 March 1940 from Habbaniya / Iraq to England. Similar to IE-50 but without full stop (.) after Mail. | ||
| Not Listed | 45,20 x 5,30 mm | 152,10 x 88,90 mm | Similar to IE-50 but without full stop (.) after Mail. | ||
| Not Listed | 38,00 x 9,90 mm | On Cover to England/Scotland dated 20 February 1937 | |||
| Not Listed |
| From the late Zvi Alexander collection | |||
| Not Listed | 42,60 x 5,40 mm | 135 x 90 mm | Similar to IE 45 and IE 49 but the "R" in OVERLAND has a long serive. | ||
| Not Listed | 38,60 x 5,40 mm | width 155 mm, height unclear since cover is slightly cropped | Cover (9 January 1930) with Overland Mail Imprint but sent by Airmail, hence Overland Mail imprint stroked out. Cover was sent by Maison N. Baladi, Bagdad. | ||
IE-N08a |
| Not Listed | 39,70 x 4,70 mm | 135,00 x 101,60 mm |
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IE-N08b |
| Not Listed | 39,40 x 4,80 mm | 155,00 x 125,00 mm | New discovered subtype with envelope size of 155 x 125 mm The stamp on the envelope has fallen of in transit and had been replaced with a non matching stamp of wrong nomination. |
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| Not Listed | 38,10 x 4,80 mm | 134,50 x 107,10 mm | New discovered subtype with envelope size of 134,50 x 107,10 mm. The imprint is in a very particular brownish color. | ||
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| Not Listed | 38,10 x 4,80 mm | 153,80 x 100,08 mm |
New discovered subtype with envelope size of 153,80 x 100,08 mm. The imprint is in a very particular brownish red color. | ||
| Not Listed | Upper Imprint 36,80 x 3,10 mm
Bottom Imprint 76,40 x 7,40 mm
| 145,00 x 95,00 mm | That cover which is known since several years but which i noted only today has two imprints on. The upper one with inscription "Overland Mail" and the bottom one with inscription "BAGHDAD - DAMASCUS - BEIRUT". The bottom imprint appears to have been printed double, ones in yellow, the second one in red. Used on cover from Baghdad to Beyrouth, dated 1 November 1936 | ||
| Not Listed | 53,00 mm x 7,40 mm | 155,60 x 124,50 mm | 1931 Envelope from Ahwaz to Vienna. In addition, Route Instruction Handstamp Type HS-87 (4) | ||
| Not Listed | 104,40 x 8,38 mm | approx. 3400 x 2690 mm | Used on 28 April 1932 on a cover from the Anglo-Persian Oil Co.LTD, Abadan, to the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. in London. The cover was not sent by Overland Mail but by Airmail, hence the Route Instruction imprint was manuscript modified. | ||
| Not Listed |
approx. 35,90 x 9,70 mm |
approx. 152,20 x 124,70 mm |
Cover from the Tehran branch to the
Beirut branch of "Ibrahim 1. Saad & Fils". It seems that the two
branches had a lot of mail between them which can explain the use of
stationery envelop with preprinted address and routing instructions By
OVERLAND MAIUBaghdad- Damas. The cover was sent by air from Baghdad;
hence OVERLAND was crossed out and replaced with a handwritten AIR.The
cover seems to have travelled by surface from Tehran (Feb 9, 1936) to
Baghdad (Feb 12) and then by air to Beirut (Feb 15). |
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Not Listed |
Imprinted envelope apparently issued by the the
Deutsche Bank, Konstantinople. |
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Not Listed |
76,60 x 9,00 mm |
154,40 x 123,40 mm |
On cover dated 20 December 1931 from Baghdad to Hamburg, Germany |
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