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        That volcano!

Here is an odd  find - an Icelandic stamp issued to commemorate the eruption of  Hekla in 1947.  Hekla is of course the next door neighbour to Eyjafjallajoekullo which until recently has been causing so much trouble for our airlines.  Hekla is said to erupt six months after Eyjafjallajoekull so we will wait and see.  

This stamp is one of 7 stamps issued in 1948 depicting Hekla, and in line with a series of "geothermal" stamps which Iceland issued celebrating, for example, their geysirs. 

 

 

        

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A view of the Iraq war

Here are two fragments of a parcel wrapping sent home from Iraq - perhaps he (or she?) was a medical officer?  These parcels were posted from the Forces Post Office (No 326 Nasiriyah not too far from Basra) towards the end of the  First World War.  The one on the right is dated December 1917.  The sender was part of the Indian Expeditionary Force to that country and as you will see most of the the regular India stamps are overprinted I. E. F for use by the troops.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

India stamps like these can also be found overprinted C. E. F - China Expeditionary Force - for a different war at a different time.

 

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