Cover airmailed to Greece, franked with British King George VI 6d stamp overprinted ‘KUWAIT 6 ANNAS’ (1950-51), and cancelled on departure AHMADI 11 OC 52.
Flap is missing and sender’s details are gone but he is definitely a Greek seaman of the super tanker ‘Agios Georgios V’ berthed in Mina al Ahmadi oil port north of Ash Shuaiba in the south of Kuwait, sending the letter to his brother in Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece.
Backstamped entering Greece through Athens with ‘ATHINAI 18 X 52 AVION’ postal marking, added with slogan reading in Greek “ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΕΙΣ ΣΗΜΕΙΩΝΕΤΕ ΤΗΝ ΑΚΡΙΒΗ ΣΑΣ ΔΙΕΥΘΥΝΣΙΝ ΕΙΣ ΤΑΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΣ ΣΑΣ” (Senders, do note your exact address on your letters).
Stamped also in Thessaloniki upon arrival at final destination on next day; faint ‘ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ ΑΦΙΞΙΣ ΑΕΡΟΠΟΡΙΚΩΣ 19 X 52’ (Thessaloniki Arrival By Air, 19 October 1952).
[Al Ahmadi town was founded in 1946 when oil was discovered there, located in south Kuwait on the Arabian Gulf. Mina Al-Ahmadi is the oil port handling most of Kuwait's petroleum exports.
The British Persian Gulf states were first administered by India, using overprinted Indian stamps. After India became independent in 1947, the British Colonial Office took over the postal communications of Bahrain, Kuwait, Dubai, Muscat, Oman and Qatar, while British stamps were overprinted and surcharged for use in these areas.]
Condition: Very good albeit roughly opened; see scans.