Syria 1931 Airmail Pictorials

Description

• Issue Date : 1931
• Designed by : Joseph de la Nézière
• Printed by : Helio Vaugirard
• Print Process : Photogravure
• Perforations : 13½
• Watermark: None

Air Post Stamps

Original Issue

50c ocher Plane over Homs	50c black brown Plane over Homs Issued: 1933	1p chestnut brown Plane over City Walls, Damascus
2p Prussian blue Plane over Euphrates river	3p blue green Plane over Temple ruins, Palmyra	5p red violet Plane over Deir-el-Zor
10p slate green Plane over Damascus	15p orange red Plane over Citadel of Aleppo	25p orange brown Plane over Hama
50p black Plane over Al-Zabadani	100p magenta Plane over Talbiseh

Overprinted in Red or Black

Issued for Damascus Fair, May 1936

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

50c black brown (red)	1p chestnut brown (black)	2p Prussian blue (red)
3p blue green (red)	5p red violet (black)

Overprinted in Blue

Issued for 1st congress of Arab lawyers, Damascus, September 1944

• Issue date: 1944
• Overprint: image of scales and Arabic writing

15p orange red

25p orange brown

100p magenta

Overprinted in Black

Issued for 1000th anniversary of the Arab poet and philosopher, Abul ʿAla Al-Maʿarri

• Issue date: 1944

15p orange red

25p orange brown

Military Air Post Stamps

Free French Administration
Overprinted in black, carmine or orange

• Issue date: 1942
• Overprint: triple bars, LIGNES; AERIENNES; F.A.F.L., value, two Lorriane crosses.

4fr on 50p black (carmine)	6.50fr on 50p black (carmine)
8fr on 50p black (orange)	10fr on 100p magenta (black)