I have a foil embossed Kennedy stamp from a country called Fujeira Wenger. Is this a Saudi country? I'm having trouble finding out anything about the country. A friend gave it to me because she said it was too big for her to keep. I'll take "too big" stamps from her anytime...lol
Fujeira a state on the coast of the Gulf of Oman about 5 o'clock on this map. The stamps did not carry out postal service so classified as Cinderellas and collectively known as "dune stamps"
Edwin, That's the one. In fact it was I looked at on ebay as well. I was getting the same when I Googled the country, just gibberish.
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Fujeira a state on the coast of the Gulf of Oman about 5 o'clock on this map. The stamps did not carry out postal service so classified as Cinderellas and collectively known as "dune stamps"
Rod, There seems to be 2 countries known as Fujeira. uuummmm....What's a "dune stamp"?
Donna, the map showing two areas both labeled Fujeria means that both those areas are under Fujerian control.
Dune stamps are usually ones from countries that are mostly comprised of sand dunes, desert countries, with not much else except maybe oil, so no huge amounts of people with enough money to actually buy stamps and use them to mail anything anywhere. So therefore, such stamps have most likely not seen any postal use and are just printed so collectors will collect them to provide extra money for the countries.
Lots of other countries do this selling of stamps that really never see postal duty, more and more now-a-days. But, lots of these stamps are beautiful and if you don't mind that they have never done their job as a stamp, then quite collectible.
Googling wenger shoes it to be a last name (surname) from Switzerland and USA etc etc so that could just be a way for the seller to keep track of who owns what in his inventory. Like putting numbers or letters after the title etc.
For the record, I think it wise to suggest to readers that not all "sand dune" stamps are worthless, experienced collectors can spot them, but for possible newbies, early trucial States or "Dune stamps" can fetch over $100 "early" (pre 1966) and "on cover" are the things to watch.
I post a snippet from the Australian Stamp News author Rod Peryy's woodchip free zone discussing "contrarism" ie going against current collecting trends
Quote: Now where does the "Wenger" come in? Is it a dependency of Fujeira?
There is a book written by Kenneth R. Wenger entitled "John F. Kennedy Memorial Stamp Issues of the World: A Visual Reference Catalog with Current Market Prices". I suppose the Wenger reference would be a catalogue number in the above book.
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Posted 10/15/2010 11:07 pm
