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Maldive Islands


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  • Revenue (catalogue numbers prefixed R)

Acknowledgments for Maldive Islands can be found on the main Asia page.

Currency
  • 100 larees = 1 rupee

Revenue
Picture
R1/3
1960.  Pictorial designs featuring lanterns (25r), palace (50r) and post office (100r).  Perf 11½ x 11.  No wmk.  Printed (recess) by Bradbury Wilkinson.

  R1. 25r red
  R2. 50r olive
  R3. 100r grey-blue

Note: these stamps were commissioned by the Crown Agents in 1960 as the top three values of a new definitive series.  Although they have no Revenue inscription which would distinguish them from the rest of the set (values from 2l to 10r, SG51/61), they seem never to have been regarded as part of the main issue, and are not listed (only footnoted) in the Stanley Gibbons catalogue.  To date they are known only in unused condition, and I would be very keen to see a used example with either revenue or postal cancel.


 

Picture
R12/13
1967.  Pictorial designs featuring passenger aircraft and the Hulule Aerodrome.  Perf 14 x 13½.  No wmk.

  R12. 50r emerald and violet
  R13. 100r purple-brown and scarlet

Notes:
1. As with the previous issue, these stamps were part of a longer pictorial issue and have no inscription to indicate that they were intended for revenue use, but once again they are not listed in the Gibbons catalogue and are therefore regarded as revenue high values.
2. Barefoot additionally lists a 25r value, but I have not seen this.



 

Picture
R21/22
1981.  Arms of Maldives.  No watermark.

  R21. 10r black and orange-brown
  R22. 15r black and deep brown


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