Syria 1930 Pictorials

Description

• Issue Date : 1930-1936
• Designed by : J. de la Néziére
• Printed by : Helio Vaugirard
• Print Process : Photogravure, Lithography (10c-25c)
• Perforations : 13, 12x12½ (10c-25c)
• Watermark: None

Stamps

Original Issue

10c red violet View of Hama

10c violet brown View of Hama Issued: 1933

10c violet brown, redrawn View of Hama Arabic inscriptions have lighter lines; hyphen added to imprint Issued: 1935

20c dark blue Great Mosque, Aleppo

20c brown orange Great Mosque, Aleppo Issued: 1933

25c gray green Minaret, Hama

25c dark blue gray Minaret, Hama Issued: 1933

50c violet View of Alexandretta

75c orange red Mosque at Homs Issued: 1932	1p green Citadel of Aleppo	1p bister brown Citadel of Aleppo Issued: 1936	1.50p bister brown Great Mosque of Damascus
1.50p deep green Great Mosque of Damascus Issued: 1933	2p dark violet View of Antioch	3p yellow green Ruins of Bosra	4p yellow orange Square at Damascus
4.50p rose carmine Mosque at Homs	6p greenish black View of Sednaya	7.50p dull blue Citadel at Aleppo	10p dark brown Ancient Bridge at Antioch
15p deep green Mosque at Hama	25p violet brown Monastery of St. Simeon the Stylite	50p olive brown Sun Temple, Palmyra	100p red orange Mosque at Damascus

Overprinted in Red or Black

Industrial Exhibition, Damascus, May 1936

• Issue Date: 15 April 1936
• Overprint: in French and Arabic, 1936; FOIRE DE DAMAS

50c violet (red)	1p bister brown (black)	2p dark violet (red)
3p yellow green (black)	4p yellow orange (black)	4.50p rose carmine (black)
6p greenish black (red)	7.50p dull blue (red)	10p dark brown (black)

Surcharged in Black

• Issue Date: 1937-1938
• Perforation: 13½x13
• Surcharge: double bars, value

2.50p on 4p yellow orange Issued: 1938

10p on 100p red orange

Surcharged in Red or Black

• Issue Date: 1938

Perforation: 13½ Surcharge: triple bars, value

25c on 75c orange red (black)	50c on 1.50p deep green (red)	2p on 7.50p dull blue (red)
5p on 7.50p dull blue (red)	10p on 50p olive brown (black)

Military Stamp

Surcharged in black

• Issue Date: 1942
• Surcharge: triple bars, two Lorraine crosses, FORCES FRANCAISES LIBRES; LEVANT, value

50c on 4p yellow orange

Covers