QUAITI – 1967 Coronation set MNH-VF – Michel A105-D105

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QUAITI – 1967 Coronation set MNH-VF – Michel A105-D105
The Quaiti Phantoms: Strange Story of a Handsome Prince
Ghalib bin Awadh bin Saleh Al-Qu’aiti II was a handsome young 19-year-old when he became HH Sultan of Qu’aiti State in Hadhramaut on October 10, 1966. But his reign lasted less than a year, as the state was overrun by the National Liberation Front on September 17, 1967 and was absorbed by the Marxist regime in Aden that subsequently was named the People’s Republic of Southern Yemen (renamed the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen in 1970, and finally, after the merger of North and South Yemen in 1990, the Republic of Yemen). This set of 4 stamps in a diamond format was issued to commemorate the “Coronation” of Ghalib on June 10, 1967—8 months
after
he ascended the throne at the death of his father (and just 3 months
before
his forced abdication). The stamps have not been seen postally used, and thus might not have seen the light of day in the post offices of Mukalla and Shihr. They are listed in the German Michel catalog as A105-D105 with a value of Euros 35 (about ). Mysteriously, however, the set was unknown until 1971 (4 years later!), when
Michel Rundschau
reported their existence, and it was many years more before the stamps appeared on the market—and then in very small quantities. Sultan Ghalib went into exile in England, distinguishing himself as an academic at Oxford and Cambridge with a working knowledge of 7 languages and as an author of several books and articles on Islam and Arab history. The best known is
The Holy Cities, the Pilgrimage, and the World of Islam,
published in 2008. Now, at 65 years of age, he resides in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. I have been fortunate at locating a small quantity of these interesting, elusive stamps and am offering them to you at a very attractive price.
Arabesque
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