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The four envelopes kept in the Alexander collection, part of a shipment that originally included six envelopes, were sent in 1950 from Jerusalem to Iraq as a gift from the Bishop of Jerusalem to a British officer who loved stamps. The envelopes document the postal system established by the Jordanians in the territories they took over west of the Jordan River during the War of Independence.

On January 5, 1959, the Post Office of Independent Guinea issued its first postage stamp. The stamp was issued by adding an overprint to a stamp of French West Africa.