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Qatar

Chapter overview
  • Insurance (catalogue numbers prefixed I)
  • Revenue (catalogue numbers prefixed R)
  • Revenue usage of Postage stamps (catalogue numbers prefixed S)
  • Tax (catalogue numbers prefixed T)


Currency
  • (1961) 100 paise = 1 rupee
  • (1966) 100 dirham = 1 riyal


Acknowledgments

Joe Ross, Qatar Revenues (privately published, 2003)

Grateful thanks to Mr Konrad Kolankiewicz for his scans of a number of items on this page.  Thanks also to Ricky Verra of David Feldman SA for bringing the Courvoisier proofs (see footnotes under R51/4 and R72/8) to my attention, and to Tony Frost for highlighting the existence of R70/71.

Insurance
PictureI1
Early 1960s.  Oil rig and handshake.  Inscribed Arab Insurance Fund for Oil Workers at top, with Qatar 1 rupee in circular panels at foot.  One side or two adjacent sides imperforate.

  I1. 1r slate-blue and carmine


Note: the exact date of issue is unknown but it is likely to be before 1966 since the value is in Indian currency, which was replaced by the riyal in that year.


Revenue
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R1/2 (images taken from Ross)
c1961.  Postage stamps (Shaikh Ahmed Bin Ali Al-Thani and mosque) overprinted Revenue (in black) in Arabic and English, with bars cancelling Postage.

   R1. 5r green
   R2. 10r black




Note: the next three issues are based on similar vertical designs showing the flag and Arms of Qatar in an ornamental frame.  The three types can be distinguished as follows:

 

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The three types of Qatar Arms Revenue
  • R13/17: REVENUE and value in white
  • R21/26: REVENUE in white, value in brown on coloured banners
  • R34/35: REVENUE and value in colour


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R13/17
c1966.  Flag and arms of Qatar.  First type: REVENUE and value in white.  21½ x 35½ mm.  Perf 13½.  No watermark.

   R13. 2r brown, brown-orange and blue-grey
   R14. 5r brown, deep rose and blue-grey
   R15. 10r brown, blue and yellow
   R16. 15r brown, grey-blue and brownish yellow
   R17. 50r brown, olive-green and yellow
 
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R21/26
1969 (earliest recorded usage).  Flag and arms of Qatar.  Second type: REVENUE in white, value in brown on coloured banners.  21½ x 35½ mm.  Perf 13½.  No watermark.

   R21. 50d brown, deep violet and slate-blue
   R22. 1r brown, blue and brownish rose
   R24. 5r brown, deep rose and blue-grey
   R25. 10r brown, blue and yellow
   R26. 15r brown, grey-blue and brownish yellow 
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R34/36
1971 (earliest recorded usage).  Flag and arms of Qatar.  Third type: REVENUE and value in third colour listed.  21½ x 35½ mm.  Perf 13½.  No watermark.

   R34. 5r brown, mauve and carmine
   R35. 10r brown, pale blue and carmine
   R36. 15r brown, red-orange and purple


Note: Qatar became an independent state on 3rd September 1971.  Subsequent issues are inscribed State of Qatar.  
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R41/44

 

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Earliest recorded usage - R43 used with T22 in March 1976
1976 (earliest recorded usage).  Flag and new Arms of Qatar on brown background.  21½ x 35½ mm.  Perf 13½.  No watermark.

   R41. 1r brown and bright green
   R42. 5r brown and violet
   R43. 10r brown and orange-brown
   R44. 15r brown and ultramarine



 

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R51/54

 

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Earliest recorded usage - R53 with T32 in Feb 1981
1980 (see note).  New Arms of Qatar.  21½ x 35½ mm.  Perf 13½.  No watermark.  Printed by Courvoisier.  Inscriptions in black, flag in maroon on yellow background.  Frame colours given.

   R51. 1r brick-red
   R52. 5r bistre-brown
   R53. 10r blue-green
   R54. 15r bright blue


Note: Proofs of the above issue were offered in the David Feldman sale of April 2013, mounted on a Courvoisier archive sheet dated 1980 (ref 1813/48).  The series was presumably commissioned that year and issued later in 1980 or early in 1981.  The earliest recorded usage is February 1981 as illustrated here.

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R61/64

 

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Earliest recorded usage - R62 used in Dec 1988
1988 (earliest recorded usage).  New squarer type showing Arms but no flag.  22 x 27 mm.  Perf 13 x 13½.  No watermark.

   R61. 1r deep purple, buff and bluish grey
   R62. 5r deep purple, buff and greenish yellow
   R63. 10r deep purple, buff and orange-brown
   R64. 15r deep purple, buff and mauve

 

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R70/78
1996 (see note 1).  Arms of Qatar.  25 x 33 mm (50r and above) or 21 x 26 mm (others).  Perf 11½ x 12.  No watermark.  200r & 500r are slightly different, having larger seriffed font in inscriptions at lower right, an elliptical perf at each side and an underprint on the gummed side consisting of the State Arms eight times in a diagonal line.  Arms multicoloured, inscriptions in black, background colour given.  Printed by Courvoisier.

   R70. 1r bright yellow
   R71. 2r dull rose
   R72. 5r grey-blue
   R73. 10r violet
   R74. 15r rose-pink
   R75. 50r bright blue-green
   R76. 100r orange-red
   R77. 200r deep blue
   R78. 500r olive-green

Note: p
roofs of the above issue were offered in the David Feldman sale of April 2013, mounted on Courvoisier archive sheets.  The proof set to 100r was on a sheet dated 1996 (ref 5262), from which I infer that the series was issued then or in early 1997 at the latest.  The 200r and 500r were on a separate undated proof sheet (ref 5446) and were presumably issued later than the lower values.

Revenue usage of Postage stamps

Note: for ease of reference, numbering follows the Stanley Gibbons catalogue.
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S148/149
1968 (earliest recorded fiscal usage).  Shaikh Ahmed Bin Ali Al-Thani and oil derrick.  Surcharged in riyals.

   S148. 1r red
   S149. 2r blue

Tax
 
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T1/3

 

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Earliest recorded usage - T1 in March 1970

1970 (earliest recorded usage).  Provisionals.  Revenue issue (R13/17) overprinted TAX in English and Arabic at sides with two bars cancelling REVENUE inscriptions; T2/3 also surcharged in Western and Arabic numerals.  21½ x 35½ mm.  Perf 13½.  No watermark.

   T1. 2r brown, brown-orange and blue-grey
   T2. 5r on 50r brown, olive-green and yellow
   T3. 10r on 50r brown, olive-green and yellow

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T11/16
1970 (earliest recorded usage).  Flag and arms of Qatar.  Similar to R13/26 but inscribed TAX (in white), with value in brown on white rectangle at foot.  21½ x 35½ mm.  Perf 13½.  No watermark.

   T11. 25d brown, deep orange and deep blue
   T13. 1r brown, magenta and orange
   T14. 2r brown, grey-green and deep rose
   T15. 5r brown, blue and yellow

   T16. 10r brown, olive-green and deep rose

Earliest recorded usage: May 1970 (5r)
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T21/23
1976 (earliest recorded usage).  Flag and new Arms of Qatar.  21½ x 35½ mm.  Perf 13½.  No watermark.

   T21. 1r purple-brown and rose-red
   T22. 2r purple-brown and violet-blue
   T23. 5r purple-brown and deep blue-green


Note: a piece showing the earliest recorded usage of this issue is illustrated alongside R41/44 above. 
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T31/33

 

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Earliest recorded usage - T32 used in Nov 1980
1980 (earliest recorded usage).  New Arms of Qatar and flag in reddish purple on background of medallions.  21½ x 35½ mm.  Perf 13½.  No wmk.  Printed by Courvoisier.

   T31. 1r reddish purple, black and blue
   T32. 2r reddish purple, black and blue-green
   T33. 5r reddish purple, black and orange-brown


Note: proofs of the above issue were offered in the David Feldman sale of April 2013, mounted on Courvoisier archive sheets.

Picture
T42/43

 

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Earliest recorded usage - T43 in May 1989

1989 (earliest recorded usage).  New squarer type showing Arms but no flag.  22 x 27 mm.  Perf 13 x 13½.  No watermark.

   T42. 2r deep purple, buff and bright green
   T43. 5r deep purple, buff and grey


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