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Kalai Jadid Post Office opened: date unknown. Registration cancel. This is the only example I have. It is on a cover where the other marks are from November 1932. The standard "western style" cancel on the stamps gives the place name. The date on the registration cancel seems to have been completed in manuscript.  Kandahar Post Office opened: pre 1907.  New type (1927?)  Khanabad Post Office opened: not known (this cancel October 1909).   Kushk Post Office opened August 1908 (Dietrich), however this example is clearly dated Jamadi II 1326 = July 1908  Maimana Post Office opened: not known (this example Oct/Nov 1908).  Mazar-i-Sharif Post Office opened: November 1907 Originating cancel in black Receiver in red, from February 1908   . New type cancel including National coat of arms at top: introdcued 1924.  Peshawar Post Office opened: pre 1907.   Qataghan Special Qataghan arms type postmark, May 1931  Tashkurghan Post Office opened: pre 1907.    Torkham Post Office opened: not known. Circular transit cancel in black (introduced 1925).  Turkestan Post Office opened: not known Arms type. I think this is (this example July 1928). Turkestan . . .   Unknown Unknown cancel in Green  Unknown cancel in viloet. Patterson ("Afghanistan: It's Twentieth Century Postal Issues") refers to a violet seal type military postmark: this could be it.  Another as yet unidentified cancel  |
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