A petro-stamp with multiple overprints:


Iraq's unoverprinted 1942 Kirkuk oil field stamp, depicting
the Baba Gugur discovery well.


Specimen overprints for UPU distribution.

Stamps overprints "On state service" in English and Arabic
for official governmental use.


Specimen overprints of the official stamps.


Stamps overprinted for official use were re-overprinted in
1959 for use in the newly established Republic of Iraq.
© Peter A. Scholle, 2000
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