Edith Cheesman
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Florence Edith Cheesman (1877–1964) was a British artist and author, noted for her watercolours of Arabian birdlife and for producing a series of Iraqi postage stamps and postcards featuring wildlife.
10 rupee definitive Iraq postage stamp designed by Cheesman and issued in 1923
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Iraq. It includes special uses under the Ottoman Empire as well as occupation issues.
Stamp for the British Occupation of Mesopotamia, 1918
A 1923 3 annas stamp of Iraq, designed by Marjorie Maynard, depicting the ruins of the Kasra arch in Ctesiphon
King Faisal I half-anna overprinted 3 fils, 1932
Registered mail sent in August 1945, with stamps from the series of 1934, 1941, and 1942