Aden

Aden is a city in Yemen. Aden's location made it a popular exchange port for mail passing between places around the Indian Ocean and Europe. Mail is known to exist from June 15, 1839, although a regular postmaster was not appointed until 1857.

Once Aden became a crown colony it received a series of stamps known as the Dhow set

Aden used postage stamps of British India until it became a crown colony on April 1, 1937. Although these stamps carried no special identification they may be recognised through the use of the number 124 in postal cancellations, which was assigned to Aden as part of the Indian postal number system.

In 1939, a new issue of stamps included a portrait of King George VI, but the sultans in Hadhramaut (whose territories had been under the British Aden Protectorate since the 1880s) objected to this, and so the British government issued separate stamps in 1942, but with the additional inscriptions Kathiri State of Seiyun and Qu'aiti State of Shihr and Mukalla (later Qu'aiti State in Hadhramaut), plus portraits of the respective sultans. All of these types were valid in Aden and the Aden Protectorate.

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  • Aden 1937 8a Pale Purple SG8 Fine LMM
    £11.00
  • Aden 1937 1R Brown SG9 Fine Used
    £8.00
  • Aden 1937 2R Yellow SG10 Fine Used
    £22.00
  • Aden 1939-45 Set of 13 SG16-27 Fine Used
    £25.00
  • Aden 1937 8a Pale Purple SG8 Good Used
    £6.00
  • Aden 1957 20s Black & Deep Lilac SG72 V.F.U
    £13.00
  • Aden 1937 1R Brown SG9 Fine Used 'Aden Camp' CDS
    £7.00
  • Aden Hadhramaut 1951 Surcharge Set of 8 SG20-27 Fine LMM
    £16.00
  • Aden Seiyun 1951 Surcharge Set of 8 SG20-27 Fine LMM
    £23.00
  • Aden 1939-45 Set of 13 SG16-27 Fine LMM
    £52.00
  • Aden 1949 RSW Set of 2 SG30-31 Fine MNH
    £25.00
  • Aden 1949 UPU Set of 4 SG32-35 Fine MNH
    £6.00
  • Aden 1951 Set of 11 SG36-46 Fine MNH (2)
    £54.00
  • Aden Hadhramaut 1942 Set of 11 SG1-11 Fine LMM
    £29.00
  • Aden 1937 Coronation Set of 3 SG13-15 Fine Used
    £3.00
  • Aden 1937 Set of 6 to 3a SG1-6 Fine Used
    £11.00
  • Aden 1939-48 Set of 11 to 1R SG16-24 Fine MM
    £14.00
  • Aden 1954 10s Black & Bronze-Green SG70 Fine VLMM
    £8.00
  • Aden 1956 2s Black & Carmine-Red SG66 Fine LMM
    £7.00
  • Aden 1956 5s Black & Deep Dull Blue SG68 Fine LMM
    £8.00
  • Aden Hadhramaut 1942 Set of 9 to 1R SG1-9 Fine LMM
    £8.00
  • Aden Seiyon 1942 Set of 9 to 1R SG1-9 Fine LMM
    £8.00
  • Aden 1951 Set of 9 to 2s SG36-44 V.F.U
    £6.00
  • Aden 1937 2R Yellow SG10 Good MM
    £40.00

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