1957 Qatar 50th Anniversary of Scouts Jubilee Jamboree Rare Stamps

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Seller: mysurplusstuff ✉️ (158) 98.8%, Location: Calgary, Alberta, CA, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 375008414094 1957 Qatar 50th Anniversary of Scouts Jubilee Jamboree Rare Stamps.

  Qatar   was a British   protectorate   from 1916 till it gained   independence   on 3 September 1971. Until 1950, the country's   postal service   was administered by an Indian   post office   in   Bahrain . A British office was opened in   Doha   and sold   stamps   of   British Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia   until 1957 when   overprinted   British stamps were introduced.   Qatar Post   took responsibility for postal administration in May 1963 and joined the   Universal Postal Union   in January 1969. The first Qatari stamps were issued in 1961 and there was an independence issue in January 1972. Since then, Qatar Post has continued to manage the country's postal administration and to issue its stamps, which are mostly relevant to Qatar itself.

Treaty postal service established

Until 1915, Qatar was part of the Ottoman Empire  though it was nominally ruled by a local Emir  of the Al Thani dynasty  which was established when the country was unified in 1851. In 1915, the Emir was Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani  (1880–1957). In August 1915, Qatar was captured by British forces fighting against the Ottomans in the First World War . In 1916, as in other Arab states of the Persian Gulf  (excluding Iraq  and Saudi Arabia ), the Emir agreed to the country becoming a British protectorate  and Great Britain undertook to administer a postal service . Qatar continued to have special treaty relations with Great Britain until 3 September 1971, when it became an  independent state .

Until 1950, any mail had to be sent privately to the post office in Bahrain , where an Indian postal administration had been in operation since 1884. Following the Partition of India  in 1947, Bahrain postage was administered from Great Britain. On 18 May 1950, a British postal administration was established in Doha  with some initial cancellations  done at the British Political Office there. This was an unsatisfactory arrangement, however, and mail continued to be sent to Bahrain for two months until an official cancellation process was introduced at Doha in July. In August, a post office  was opened to the public in Doha and the service was divorced from the political office. A second post office was opened at the Umm Sa'id  oil terminal on 1 February 1956 and a third at Dukhan  on the west coast in January 1960. The Qatari postal administration was established on 23 May 1963.

British agency stamps A British Wilding series  stamp, issued 1 April 1957, and overprinted for use in Qatar.

Until August 1950, British stamp  with a BAHRAIN  overprint  were in use. From August 1950 to 31 March 1957, the post offices sold general issue British Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia  stamps. These were not overprinted. The same stamps were sold in Muscat  and Dubai . They were also available in Bahrain and Kuwait  when need arose. Mian Muhammad Rafique Ahmed (1919–2001), a Pakistani, was Qatar's first Postmaster General , appointed in 1955. The agency stamps were withdrawn from sale in April 1957 but nevertheless continued to be valid and were postmarked when used.

British overprints

The inaugural Qatar issue on 1 April 1957 was twelve British definitives  from the Wilding series  and three higher value "Castles" commemoratives . All were overprinted QATAR  and surcharged  with a value in Indian currency ranging from 1 naya paisa  (1np) to 10 Indian rupees  (10r). The currency of Qatar at the time was 100 naye paise = 1 rupee. The British stamps were the 1952 definitive series featuring the Dorothy Wilding  photograph of Queen Elizabeth II  and the three 1955 commemoratives of the castles at Carrickfergus  (2s 6d), Caernarfon  (5s) and Edinburgh  (10s), which also featured the Wilding portrait. There were seven basic designs of the definitives with values ranging from one halfpenny  (½d) to one shilling  and six pence  (1s 6d).    Later in 1957, three stamps from the British  Scouting Jubilee  series were issued and in 1960 a further series of Wilding stamps were issued with a different  watermark . As with the inaugural issue, these were overprinted QATAR and surcharged in Indian currency.

Qatari issues

The first stamps inscribed Qatar, rather than British stamps with the Qatar overprint, were a series of eleven definitive issued on 2 September 1961 and depicting Sheikh Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani  (1922–1977).    On 23 May 1963,  Qatar Post  took responsibility for postal services in Qatar and from 1966 the currency used on stamps was changed from rupees to  dirhams  and  riyals .  Qatar Post joined the  Universal Postal Union  on 31 January 1969 and, in 2012, hosted the 25th  Universal Postal Union Congress .  The event was held from September to October 2012.

  • Condition: Mint Condition Rare
  • Type: Postage
  • Year of Issue: 1951-1960
  • Place of Origin: Qatar
  • Quality: Mint Never Hinged/MNH
  • Color: Multi-Color
  • Currency: Decimal
  • Grade: XF (Extremely Fine)
  • Topic: Boy Scouts
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
  • Certification: Uncertified

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