page_title: Postage stamps and postal history of Aden
section_title: George VI
hierarchical_section_title: Postage stamps and postal history of Aden / George VI
caption_attribution_description: English: Aden 2sh overprinted on 2 Rs stamp, SG44 deep blue center &amp; magenta
context_page_description: Aden is a city in southern Yemen. Aden's location made it a popular exchange port for mail passing between places around the Indian Ocean and Europe. When Captain S. B. Haines of the Indian Marine, the East India Company's navy, occupied Aden on 19 January 1839, mail services were immediately established in the settlement with a complement of two postal clerks and four letter carriers. An interim postmaster was appointed as early as June 1839. Mail is known to exist from 15 June 1839 although a regular postmaster was not appointed until 1857; one of the officials of the Political Agent or the civil surgeon performed the duties of postmaster for a small salary.
context_section_description: In 1939, a new definitive issue with the effigy of King George VI was issued. The sultans of the two major states in the Hadhramaut (part of the Aden Protectorate) objected to this since they were sovereigns in their own right and were not subjects of the King of the United Kingdom. Therefore the British government issued separate stamps in 1942, with the additional inscriptions Kathiri State of Seiyun and Qu'aiti State of Shihr and Mukalla (later Qu'aiti State in Hadhramaut), with portraits of the respective sultans replacing the effigy of George VI. All of these types were valid in Aden and in the Aden Protectorate.
  In 1951, the definitive issue of 1939 was overprinted with shilling denominations when the British East African shilling replaced the Indian rupee as the legal currency of Aden.
  Stamps inscribed Aden were used until 31 March 1965 when all were withdrawn. 
  Stamps of  the Federation of South Arabia, formed from Aden Colony and Aden Protectorate, were issued from 1963 to 1966.
caption: 1951 shilling overprint on definitive issue of 1939
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