Aden | |
![]() Click here for higher resolution image | First day of issue: 1967 Occasion: 1968 Winter Olympics,1968,Grenoble,France Width: 150 mm Height: 95 mm Perforation: Perforated 12.50 x 12.50 Printing method: Photogravure Catalog number: Michel Block4A Location: Ice Hockey Volume I Stamp ID = 9 Ice hockey is in the lower left hand corner of the border design The "Michel, Asien II 1989/90 Übersee-Katalog - Band 5/II", 1989 lists the following 3 areas of Arabia as Aden. The descriptions come from Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page. Hadhramaut, Kathiri State in (1967) Stamp-issuing status: inactive. A region in southwestern Arabia, formerly part of the Aden Protectorate. A number of large, colorful pictorial sets and souvenir sheets were released to the collector market in the months preceding the territory's absorption by the People's Democratic Republic of Southern Yemen. Mahra (1967) Stamp-issuing status: inactive. A sultanate in the Aden Protectorate in southwest Arabia. Mahra briefly issued stamps before its absorption into the People's Republic of Southern Yemen Seiyun, Kathiri State of (1942-67) Stamp-issuing status: inactive. A former British protectorate in south Arabia. The area was autonomous until its incorporation into the People's Republic of Southern Yemen. |