Fujeira 5 rupee Pyramids of Giza postage stamp (1966) : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Fujeira 5 rupee Pyramids of Giza postage stamp (1966) / James St. John
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | This postage stamp (= Stanley Gibbons Catalogue # 65) was issued on 27 January 1966 by Fujeira, which is located in the eastern Arabian Peninsula. Fujeira is both a city and a country (also referred to as an emirate, a sheikdom, a Trucial State, and a confederation). In modern times, it is part of the "U.A.E." = the United Arab Emirates. Fujeira formerly issued many postage stamps in the 1960s and 1970s, as did other Trucial States in the region. The stamps were created specifically to be sold to non-domestic stamp collectors to raise money ("revenue") for each country. They were not even printed in the countries that bear their names. As such, they are not really postage stamps - they were not sold from Fujeira post offices and not used on their mail. Many depict subjects or topics completely non-related to the home country (such as the example seen here). Serious stamp collectors collectively call these non-stamps "Dunes" or "Trucials" and consider them worthless. There's reportedly been renewed interest in Trucial stamps in recent years.Seen here is one of the values in a set of nine stamps issued to mark the Stamp Centenary Exhibition in Cairo in January 1966. The set depicts historic and ancient Egyptian sites and artifacts.The stamp has a cancellation, but it was printed atop the stamp in the factory. Stamps with such fake cancellations are called "CTO" - "cancelled to order". They were never affixed to a cover and were never used in the mail. |
| 撮影日 | 2024-08-30 23:55:49 |
| 撮影者 | James St. John |
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