page_title: Postage stamps and postal history of Yemen
section_title: Early intaglio seals 1926-1930
hierarchical_section_title: Postage stamps and postal history of Yemen / North Yemen / Early intaglio seals 1926-1930
caption_attribution_description: English: Postage stamps of Yemen overprinted by republicans and royalists during domestic civil war, 1962 Русский: Почтовые марки Йемена, надпечатанные республиканцами и роялистами в ходе местной гражданской войны, 1962 год. Слева надпечатка республиканцев «Й. А. Р.», справа — роялистов: «Свободный Йемен сражается за Бога, имама и страну» (англ. Free Yemen fights for God, imam and country)
context_page_description: This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Yemen.
  Yemen is located on the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia. It has an estimated population of more than 23 million people and is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden to the south, and Oman to the east. Yemen is just under 530,000 km² in land area. Its territory includes over 200 islands and its capital is Sana'a.
context_section_description: Locally produced intaglio seals were used to cancel domestic mail franked by the first issue of Yemen in 1926. All of the First Issue Stamps of Yemen are cancelled with intaglio seals. Neither Ottoman nor German bilingual postmarks are found as principal cancel of the first issue. The intaglio cancels on the first issue vary in diameter from 20 to 31mm; the smaller, less elaborate ones tend to have been used earlier and vice versa. None are found with later 35mm intaglio cancels. McDonald states 99%+ of the many hundreds he encountered were cancelled by either Sanaa or Hodeida postmarks whereas there were potentially 30 post offices where a canceller could have been used as this is the total on the list submitted to the UPU in Yemen's application to join in 1930.
caption: Postage stamps of Yemen overprinted by republicans and royalists during the civil war in 1962
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