GBLA Bitter Lake Suez Egypt Israel War 1967/75 Encyclopaedia and Stamp Catalogue

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GBLA catalogue values for single stamps range from 10p to £100 — meaning some stamps are up to 1,000 times more valuable than others. Therefore, when buying GBLA items, it’s wise to be aware of their catalogue values.

During the Six-Day War in 1967, fourteen merchant ships from eight nations - Agapenor, Melampus, Port Invercargill and Scottish Star from Great Britain, Killara and Nippon from
Sweden, Munsterland and Nordwind from Germany, Boleslaw Bierut and Djakarta from Poland, African Glen from USA, Sindh from France, Vasil Levsky from Bulgaria and Lednice from Czechoslovakia - called the Yellow Fleet, were trapped on the Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal. The ships stayed there for eight years, to 1975. Seafarers established the Great Bitter Lake Association (GBLA) to pool resources, organize activities…and issued stamps.

Much has already been written about the GBLA. Readers still have a problem to find out which information is true and which false. This book offers answers, a wealth of pictures, documents and stamps on 336 large pages. It contains chapters for the general public, ships enthusiasts, GBLA members and, naturally, collectors. Shown in colour, identified and valued are more than 2,000 stamps, sheets, covers, cachets and other collectibles.

A special section is dedicated to imitations, often purchased by unaware buyers as GBLA stamps. Avoiding them, the book pays off.

Just a note to collectors from Norway. Two of the ships were purchased by a Norwegian company and had a crew from Norway. Naturally, they issued GBLA stamps, too

If you have any GBLA items, I would like to hear from you.