Ajman : 8 Modern Ships.

If one of them is modern, then I'm KG5

8 ships,
if you recognise any, please advise.
The only one I can ID is the centre, the Russian
Atomic Icebreaker "The Lenin", once famous for never been
seen apart from on a stamp.
Exist it did, though, and is now in Murmansk as a small hotel and
restaurant.
In its 30 year history, and 640,000 naut miles, its
atomic reactor never broke down (phew)

How about Queen Mary to the right of Lenin? Maybe? Mauretania to the left?

Home run for Collin,
yep, the livery is right.
The red/white/blue flags for and aft had me curious,
put it down to the producers of these labels,
(nothing is very genuine)
I searched the world database on red/white/blue flags,
and the only existing one is a signal flag "T" =Tango

2 out of 2 Collin.
"Mauretania"
holder of the blue riband,
named after a Roman Province in Nth Africa
as her sister ship the "Lusitania", a province
across the straits of Gibraltar.

With cunard livery.

By the time of release for this series (March 31 1973), the Michel Near East catalogue was no longer treating stamps from Ajman with much seriousness. Listing information is somewhat minimal. According to the Michel listing, 2869A-2873A are steamships, 2874A is a passenger ship, 2875A is an icebreaker and 2876A is a hovercraft. The "modern" ship designation is due to the related series 2861A-2868A showing old sailing ships. Michel 2877-2892 repeats all the designs in tiny format.

Ryan

Why do others like Michels dislike the Ajman stamps? I have a nice small collection of them and find them very beautiful. Just wondering.

Ray, because the era in which these were produced, was a time
of blatant label producing, without authority.
These labels did not carry postage and are completely
fraudulent.
We collect them because they exist, and only some are brave
enough to post them
We are lucky in that Michel even lists them.

As long as we are aware of what they are, no harm is done
and some of them are quite informative, here I am thinking
of the Sistine chapel set and the Pompeii sets.

that hovercraft is driving me crazy, with nothing to do in a hotel room I'm been google'n everything...

so far I've had a few similar designs but no matches...

British SRN4


Princess Margaret


I'm still looking, does the stamp have any specifics on it to give anything away?

I'm thinking it may not be a hover craft but a hydrofoil boat?

Ahhhhh, I found it









need more?

This was my reponse prior to you finding the pics






I am regretting I posted it too, Edwin.

I kicked tyres for over an hour with the same result,
I figured (date of production) to be 1965-1973
Then I figured this (in fact all these images)
could be "artist's impressions")

These labels are not worth the trouble, so I
put these in the too hard basket.

The interesting thing with one set of Ajman I chased Edwin,
I found all the stamp images taken from a book of sculpture.
So there's an insight into their evil ways.

Photocopy some book images and plonk 'em on a "stamp".
Thanks for your good intentions

Yes please like to what country did it belong?
where is/was it operating? who built it? weblink?

Thanks

PS Top Googling, well done you!

well the initial search let me to www.hovercraft-museum.org

I was having trouble with their images showingon site. Their links are broken so I dug into the website, and went direct to the image directory listed below...

www.hovercraft-museum.org/images/

scroll way down to the n3001.jpg there are quite a few pictures of that boat er hovercraft.

www.hovercraft-museum.org/images/n30018.jpg" border="0" style='cursor:default' onClick='doimage(this,event)'>
why is that a broken link?

which lead me here... you need someone that can read french...
to give you the specifics on the craft
http://aernav.free.fr/Naviplane/M_Naviplane.html

the end...

The 'stamp' bottom left shows a French N300 hovercraft.
Hope this helps
Ken

These labels were issued in 2 sizes in mini-sheet format.
The size of the labels is 45mm x 35mm and 22mm x 16mm.
Ken

I agree with you Rod. I don't know why people bash the "Sand Dune" countries and CTO's. Although, the majority
of them have nothing to do with the cultures or histories of the countries which issued them, they still look pretty nice. Having said that, here in the Middle East, there are many collectors that are interested in them, CTO or otherwise.

I have a "dunes" stamp album with a lot
of the stamps in them,
picked it up in a 'phossick box" at auction
never seen an album before even a low grade one
like this
Produced by "seven seas" in Australia

PS Thanks Ray for your contribution.