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First	Country	Commemorative	Airmail	Post Due	Official	Charity	Other
1916 [Serbia Sc1N1] SG22 1 heller olive Bosnia o/p £2 / £3.50 see note 37.4, previous page	Austrian Occupied Serbia Austro-Hungarian Military Post in Gibbons
1916 Romania Sc-2N1 SG1 1 stotinki green Romanian o/p 10p / 10p	Bulgarian Occupied Romania	-	-	-	-	-
image source 1 1916 Sc1 SG1a 5 centimos on 4 peseta red Rio de Oro surch. £75 / £24 see note 36.1	Cape Juby	1929 Sc-29 SG36 5 c red Seville and Barcelona Exhibition Spanish o/p 30p / 40p	1938 Sc-C1 SG95 5 c brown Spanish Morocco o/p 15p / 15p	-	-	1926 Sc-B1 SG23 o/p Spain's 1926 Red Cross 1 centimo orange £9.75 / £9.75
Eastern 1916 [Lithuania Sc-1N1] SG1 2½ pfennig grey German o/p 60p / £1.50 see note 38.10 Western 1916 [France ScN15] SG1 3 centimes on 3 pf brown German o/p 30p / 60p	German Eastern and Western Commands	-	-	-	-	-
1916 Saudi Arabia Sc-L1 SG13 ¼ piastre green £2.25 / £1.10	Hejaz Saudi Arabia see note 38.9	1924 Sc-L42 SG50 ½ piastre brown Assumption of the Caliphate by King Hussein £3 / £2	-	1917 Sc-LJ1 SG-D17 20 paras red £3.50 / £1.25	-	-
1916 Sc1 SG1 ½ centavo on 100 reis black Lourenco Marques surch. £5.50 / £5	Kionga Part of German East Africa, occupied by the Portuguese during WW1, now part of Mozambique.	-	-	-	-	-
1916 Sc? SG? 1 £ / £ see note 38.4	Long Island (Uzun)	-	-	-	-	-
1916 Sc1 SG1 ½ d green £1 / £5.50 1924 Sc17 SG26A ½ d brown £1.75 / £2.75 Republic 1968 Sc72 SG80 1 cent blue Sc58 SG66 o/p 10p /30p	Nauru	1935 Sc31 SG40 ½ d red 25th anniv. of the reign of George V o/p SG28B 75p / 80p 1937 Sc35 SG44 1½ d red Coronation 75p / £1.75 Republic 1968 Sc86 SG94 5 c multi Independence 10p / 10p	-	-	-	1995 Sc-B1 SG-MS441 60c + 15c multi Sheet of 4 ScB1a to B1d Surcharge for sports development £4 / £4.50
1916 Sc1 SG1 5 centimes green Fr. Off. in the Levant o/p £350 / £180 see note 38.2 1916 Sc4 SG4 1 c grey Fr. Off. in the Levant o/p 55p / £3.50	Rouad Is Arwad	-	-	-	-	-
1916 [German East Africa Sc-N1] SG1 5 centimes black and green Belgian Congo o/p £42 see note 38.5 1924 Sc6 SG37 5 c yellow Belgian Congo o/p 30p / 65p 1931 Sc38 SG85 10 c grey 10p / 20p	Ruanda-Urundi Belgian East Africa see German East Africa	1934 Sc55 SG102 1.50 fr black King Albert Memorial Issue 65p / 60p	-	1924 Sc-J1 SG-D55 5 c brown Belgian Congo o/p 10p / 35p	-	1918 [GEA Sc-NB1 SG23 5c + 10c blue and green Belgian Congo Red Cross o/p 15p / £1.10 1925 Sc-B1 SG61 25c + 25c red and black Belgian Congo o/p 40p / £1.10 1936 Sc-B12 SG103 1.25fr + 5c brown Queen Astrid with Natives National League for the Protection of Native Children 75p / £1
1916 Sc? [British Levant SG-S1] ½ d green GB o/p £40 / £190 see note 38.6	Salonica (British Levant)	-	-	-	-	-

1917 [Montenegro Sc-1N1] SG1 10 heller blue Austrian Military o/p £9.50 / £9 see note 37.4, previous page	Austrian Occupied Montenegro Austro-Hungarian Military Post in Gibbons
1917 [Romania Sc-1N1] SG1 3 bani grey Austrian Military surch. £1.90 / £2.40 see note 37.4, previous page	Austrian Occupied Romania Austro-Hungarian Military Post in Gibbons	-	-	-	-	-
1917 Sc-N1 SG1 ½ anna on 2 paras red Turkey surch. £110 / £130 see note 38.3	Baghdad Mesopotamia	-	-	-	1920 Sc-NO1 SG? ½ anna on 10 paras green o/p Sc-N29 [$2.50 / 50c]	-
1917 Sc1 SG1 1 cent brown Hong King o/p £3 / £1.50	British P.O.s in China	-	-	-	-	-
1917 [Romania Sc-3N1] SG1 15 bani on 15 pf violet German surch. £1.10 / £1.25	German Occupied Romania	-	-	1918 [Romania Sc-3NJ1] SG-D1B 5 b blue on green Romanian o/p £6 / £14.50	-	-
1917 Sc1 SG1 2 cents on 5 centesimi green Italian handstamped surch. £120 / £70 1917 Sc5 SG9 1 c brown Italian o/p. £9.50 / £15 see note 38.7	Italian P.O.s in China Peking	-	-	1917 Sc-J1 SG-D19 10 c buff and magenta Italian o/p £2.75 / £6.75	-	-
1917 Sc1 SG31 2 cents on 5 centesimi green Italian handstamped surch. £225 / £190 1917 Sc12 SG34 1 c brown Italian o/p. £9.50 / £15 see note 38.7	Italian P.O.s in China Tientsin	-	-	1917 Sc-J1 SG-D44 10 c buff and magenta Italian o/p £2.75 / £6.75	-	-
1917 [Epirus Sc26] SG? 25 lepta blue [$4 / $4.50] see note 38.8	Koritsa Under Epirus in Scott	-	-	-	-	-
First	Country	Commemorative	Airmail	Post Due	Official	Charity	Other

Table 38
Notes:
38.1 All Cape Juby's stamps are overprints.
38.2 The three Ile Rouad stamps issued in January 1916, being vertical overprints on French Offices in the Levant stamps are all priced at around £3250 / £200. The thirteen stamps issued in December 1916, being horizontal overprints on French Offices in the Levant stamps are priced in the range 50p to £40, the first of the issue being 55p. That's the one for me.
38.3 Scott lists Baghdad under Mesopotamia. Every stamp is a surcharge or overprint of a Turkish stamp. Scott includes a section of Officials not mentioned in Mackay or Gibbons. All of these stamps are out of my price range.
38.4 I cannot find Long Island in Scott or Gibbons. Woods This is Philately explains that it is a Turkish island Uzun, called Long Island by the Brits in occupation during WW1. They used overprinted Turkish revenue stamps. There were also "a few hundred" primitive, imperforate, typewritten stamps. I have asked the experts at FICC for advice.
38.5 For Ruanda-Urndi, Gibbons starts in 1916 with a set of Belgian Congo stamps overprinted Ruanda (SG1 to SG7a), then a set overprinted Urundi (SG8 to SG14a), then a couple of sets with other overprints (long and short), before the 1924 issue of Belgian Congo stamps overprinted Ruanda Urundi. The this last is the point at which Scott joins in (starting with Sc6 - I don't know why). Rather more sensibly, I feel, Scott classifies all these earlier issues as German East Africa under Belgian occupation.
38.6 Gibbons regards Salonica as a subset of British Levant, under British Field Office in Salonica and given separate numbering from SG-S1. I cannot find this stamp in Scott. British Offices Abroad - Turkish Empire section.
38.7 For Italian Offices in China, Scott numbers Peking and Tientsin separately, Gibbons sequentially. In both cases there were two issues in 1917: all of the first (upper case overprint) are expensive, the second issue (lower case overprint) more reasonable.
38.8 Given that I have not yet found Epirus in Scott, Koritsa is also eluding me.
38.9 Gibbons begins Saudi Arabia in 1916 with sections Hejaz (1916), Nejdi Occupation of Hejaz (1925), Hehaz and Nejd (1926) and then Saudi Arabia from 1932, numbering the stamps sequentially. Scott's approach is similar, under Saudi Arabia with Hejaz (1916), Nedji Administration of the Hejaz (1925), Kingdom of Hedaz-Nejd (1926) and Saudi Arabia from 1934, Scott prefixes Hajaz as ScL, begins the 1925 Administration as Sc1 and thereafter numbers sequentially.
38.10 German Eastern Command in Gibbons is German Occupied Lithuania in Scott.

First	Country	Commemorative	Airmail	Post Due	Official	Charity	Other
1918 [Italy Sc-N1] SG1 2 centesimi on 1 heller blue Austrian Military o/p 10p / 25p see note 37.4, previous page	Austrian Occupied Italy Austro-Hungarian Military Post in Gibbons			1918 Sc-NJ1 SG-D20 6 c on 5h red £3.50 / £5.50
1918 Sc2 SG5 15 haleru green 10p / 10p see note 39.4 Reunification 1945 Sc256A SG412 10 h black 10p / 10p 1945 Sc311 SG396 1.50 koruna purple £1.50 / £2	Czechoslovakia	1919 Sc-B124 SG61 15 h green 1st anniv of independence For the benefit of Legionaire's orphans 10p / 10p see note 39.7	1920 Sc-C1 SG215 14 koruna on 200h blue Sc9 SG13 surch. £15 / £25 1930 Sc-C10 SG309 50 h green 10p / 20p	1919 Sc-J1 SG-D24 5 h brown 10p / 10p	1918 Sc-OL1 SG? 10 h blue [$10 / $15] see note 39.5 1945 Sc-O1 SG-O463 50 h green 10p / 10p	1919 Sc-B1 SG67 3 h violet Austrian o/p 10p / 40p 1919 Sc-B124 SG61 15 h green 1st anniv. Independence 10p / 10p	1937 Sc-EX1 SG-P363 50 h blue 20p / 45p see note 39.6
1918 Sc1 SG1 5 kopecks pink 50p / 50p German Occupation Image source 1 1918 Sc-N1 SG1 20pf on 10k blue Russian o/p £75 / £100	Estonia see also German Occupation, 1941 and Independence 1991	1928 Sc84 SG67 2 senti green 10th anniv. independence overprint £1 / 75p 1932 Sc108 SG95 5s red University of Tartu tercentenary £4.50 / 40p	1920 Sc-C1 SG15 5 marks black blue and yellow LVG Schneider biplane £4 / £4	-	-	1920 Sc-B1 SG24 35 + 10 penni grey and red Wounded soldier 60p / 1.50
1918 Sc3 SG1 2 filler brown Hungarian o/p £2.50 / £1.25 1918 Sc1 SG5 10 filler rose Hungarian o/p £35 / £16 1919 Sc27 SG32 2 centesimi blue 50p / 50p	Fiume	1920 Sc100 SG131 5 c green Anniv. of the occupation of Fiume by d'Annuzio 50p / 50p	-	1918 Sc-J1 SG-D29 6 f black and green Hungarian o/p £225 / £85 1918 Sc-J13 SG-D91 2 c brown £1,10 / 95p	-	1919 Sc-B1 SG24 10f + 2f red Hungarian o/p £3.25 / £2.25 1919 Sc-B4 SG71 5c + 5 lire green 200th day of peace, for the benefit of Fiume students £8.75 / £5
1918 [French Morocco Sc72] SG1a 1 centime grey French PO Morocco o/p 20p / £2.25 see note 39.8	French P.O Tangier	-	1928 [French Morocco Sc-CB11] SG30 5 c blue French Morocco o/p £1.75 / £7.50	1918 [French Morocco Sc-J35] SG-D19 1 c black French o/p 25p / £2.50	-	-
1918 [Mesopotamia Sc-N28] SG1 ¼ anna on 5 paras purple British Occupation Turkish surch. 50p / £1 1918 Sc1 SG41 ½ anna green 50p / 10p see note 39.1 Independent Kingdom 1934 Sc62 SG173 2 fils blue King Ghazi 20p / 15p Republic 1959 Sc228 SG507 3 f blue 35p / 25p	Iraq	1949 Sc130 SG339 20 fils blue 75th anniv. of UPU £1.75 / £1.25	1949 Sc-C1 SG330 3 f green Basrah Airport 20p / 20p	-	1923 Sc-O1 SG-O33 ½ anna green SC1 o/p £1 / £1	1949 Sc-RA1 SG-T324 2f on 3f green Official o/p £9 / £7.50
1918 Sc1 SG15 5 kopeks red 10p / 10p see note 39.3	Latvia see also German Occupation, 1941 Independence, 1991	1919 Sc59 SG32 10 k brown and red First annov. of independence 35p / 35p	1921 Sc-C1 SG84 10 roubles green £5 / £5	-	-	1920 Sc-B1 SG50 20 (30) k red and brown 40p / 90p see note 39.9 1920 Sc-B5 SG46 20 (30) k red and brown 50p / £1.50 1920 Sc-B9 SG54 20 (30) k red and brown £1 / £2.75
Image source 1 1918 Sc1 SG3 10 skatiku black on buff £40 / £22 see note 39.10 1919 Sc9 SG9 10 skatiku black on buff £5.50 / £1.90 1919 Sc30 SG40 10 sk pink 15p / 15p	Lithuania see also Russian Occupation, 1940 Independence, 1991	1920 Sc70 SG65 10 sk lake Annniv. of national independence £1.50 / £2	1921 Sc-B1 SG102 20 skatiku £1 / 85p 1921 Sc-B5 SG95 1 auksinas green and brown 15p / 10p	-	-	1924 Sc-B1 SG228 2 centai + 2c brown Sc196 surch. War Orphans' Fund £1 / £1.50 1938 Sc-B43 SG420 5c + 5c green Olympic Fund £7 / £9
1918 Sc1 SG1 1 piastre dark blue £2 / £2 1927 Sc63 SG90 2 mills blue 65p / 10p	Palestine	-	-	1923 Sc-J1 SG-D1 1 millieme brown £15 / £25	-	-
1918 Sc1 SG8 25 kopecks on 1 k orange Russian o/p 25p / 45p 1919 Sc10 SG33 20 k green £18 / £150	South Russia Provisional government set up by General Denikin following the collapse of the Empire.	-	-	-	-	-
1918 [Austria Sc-N33] SG1 3 heller purple Austrian o/p £1.90 / £2.10 see note 39.11	Trentino Austrian Territories acquired by Italy	-	-	-	-	-
1918 [Austria Sc-N1] SG31 3 heller violet Austrian o/p 90p / 90p see note 39.11	Venezia Giulia Austrian Territories acquired by Italy	-	-	1918 Sc-NJ1 SG-D60 5 c mauve and orange 15p / 55p	-	-
1918 Sc1 SG1 10 shahiv brown on buff 20p / 50p	Ukraine see also 1992	-	-	-	-	1923 Sc-B1 SG12 10 karbovanets + 10k black and blue £1 / £2.25
1921 Sc1 SG164 2 paras brown King Alexander when Prince 10p / 10p see note 39.2	Yugoslavia	1934 Sc102 SG305 25 p black King Alexander Memorial Issue 10p / 10p	1934 Sc-C1 SG300 50 p purple Dubrovnik 10p / 15p	1918 Sc-J1 SG-D182 10p on 5p green overprint 15p / 10p 1921 Sc-J3 SG-D184 10p red 10p / 10p	1946 Sc-O1 SG-O540 50 p orange 15p / 10p	1921 Sc-B1 SG178 10p + 10p red Disabled Soldiers' Fund 10p / 10p
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1918 Sc-1L1 SG1 3 heller green B&H o/p 60p / £1.50 1919 Sc-1L17 SG25 2 h blue 20p / 25p	Yugoslavia - Bosnia and Herzegovina see also 1879	-	-	1918 Sc-1LB1 SG-D19 10 h greenish blue red B&H o/p 10p / 10p	-	-
Croatia-Slavonia 1918 Sc-2L1 SG53 6 filler green Hungary o/p 75p / £1.50 1919 Sc-2L32 SG87 2 filler orange 10p / 35p	Yugoslavia - Croatia-Slavonia	1918 Sc-2L28 SG83 10 f red Freedom of Croatia-Slavonia £2.25 / £2.75	-	1918 Sc-2LJ1 SG? 50 f green Hungarian o/p [$175] 1918 Sc-2LJ1 SG-D86 2 f green Hungarian o/p £1.25 / £1.25	-	1918 Sc-2LB1 SG78 10f + 2f red Sc2L35 o/p 35p / 45p
Slovenia 1919 Sc-3L1 SG97a 3 filler violet 15p / 10p	Yugoslavia - Slovenia	-	-	1919 Sc-3LJ1 SG-D150 5 f red 10p / 10p	-	-

First	Country	Commemorative	Airmail	Post Due	Official	Charity	Other

Table 39

Notes:
39.1 For Iraq, Scott starts with the 1923 issue above, "Issues under British Mandate". Gibbons begin in 1918 with stamps from Turkey surcharged IRAQ IN BRITISH OCCUPATION.
39.2 Gibbons begins Yugoslavia in 1918 with issues for Bosnia and Herzegovenia. then moves on to sections for Croatia and Slovenia. SG164 is the first in the fourth section, Issues for the Whole Kingdom. Scott's approach is similar, with local issues for Bosnia and Herzegovia (numbered SC-1L), Croatia-Slavonia (Sc-2L) and Slovenia (Sc-3L) and the general issues for use throughout the kingdom - Sc1 / SG164. There is a fourth region for the Carintha Plebiscite containing semi-postals only, a Slovenia overprint, see next page.
39.3 Latvia #1 is a particular favourite, being printed on the back of German military maps. Scott #1 is imperforate, #2 perforated: Gibbons specifies #14 as either.
39.4 Although not noted in my copies of Scott, FICC (First Issues Newsletter, Vol. 7, Issue 1, Page 4, 1998) states that Czechoslovakia #2 and #3 were issued first in Dec 1918 and #1 and the other issues in early 1919. Gibbons starts with two different stamps. In 1939, Germany occupied Czechoslovakia, divided it into the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the independent state of Slovakia. The 1945 issues are the first after reunification according to Scott and Gibbons.
39.5 Scott includes a Local 1918 Official for Czechoslovakia not mentioned in Mackay.
39.6 Czechoslovakia issued the first Personal Delivery stamp (for delivery to the specific addressee). See First Firsts.
39.7 Czechoslovakia's first commem. is also its first real charity.
39.8 Scott lists French Post Offices in Tangier within French Morocco, thus SC72.
39.9 Latvia's first Charity issue was printed on the back of local banknotes. Scott and Gibbons distinguish between the varieties of the set of four stamps: Sc-B1 to B4, SG50-53 (brown and green design on the back, Western Army notes}; B5-B8, SG46-49 (blue design, Bolshevist notes); B9-B12, SG54-57 (brown, green and red).
39.10 Lithuania's first issues are primitivist and expensive. I'll settle for a slightly later printing and also show the first proper stamp, the Sc30.
39.11 Gibbons numbers Trentino (1918), Venezia Giulia (1918), General Issues (1919) and Dalmatia (1919) sequentially under Austrian Territories acquired by Italy.

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