Air Mail Stamps From Sharjah

Howdy-Doody to you all!!

I'm having trouble tracking these stamps down in my Scott. I curse my lazy-eye sometimes because when I'm viewing 2 pages at the same time I tend to overlook things. I put my eye-patch on over my lazy-eye and tried one eyeing my Scott book and still had no luck locating them. I guess I could try covering up my good eye and trying to locate them with my lazy-eye. Hmmm...



I would appreciate anybody here who could help me with some info regarding the ID, value, etc.


Thanks,
Lucky

Sharjah Appendix stamp/s

Considered a Cinderella
No CV, or at best minimal,
seen in multitudes of cheap stock books at auction.

1972 Sharjah (or someone claiming to represent them)
printed hundreds of these labels on every conceivable
topic.
Usually found in catalogues back of book
with minimal listing details
eg 1972 Butterflies (then their values)

PS: I think if you look, or scan up close, you
will find they couldn't be bothered to even cancel
the labels, they printed the cancellation as well

They are listed here:
http://www.ohmygosh.on.ca/stamps/sh.../sharj72.htm

If they are considered a Cinderella, why is there a postmark on it and how can a Postal Airmail stamp be classified as a Cinderella? Also, can you explain what you mean by "Appendix"?

I appreciate you taking the time to help me with this Rod222.

Lucky

Hi Lucky,
1. The postmark is a subterfuge, it is not a cancel, it is
an integral part of the printed sheet, a deception.
Example-The signature on a forged banknote- It remains valueless
because the banknote is not genuine.
Cinderella=no genuine postal use.

Appendix stamps: A Stanley Gibbons reference to a group of stamps
from a country, where actual postal use is not confirmed,
the stamp has a doubtful heritage, so they lump them
together at the back of that country's listings, without
dedicated catalogue numbers

Hope my weak attempt at explanation is helpful. :)

BTW Lucky,
it is OK to collect these labels...I do
(you get funny looks when you buy them at auction though)

Here are appendix of sharjah
as shown in gibbons
Note..no catalogue numbers

Wholly Smokes rod!! I wet my finger and tried to smudge or smear the ink on the cancel and you are right about them printing the cancel when they printed the stamp. I checked out the site link as well.

I came across these in some stamps that someone gave me & I thought they were real pretty. You burst my bubble with your info but at least you were gentle about it. Thanks for you help.

Lucky

we don't want to scare the gals off, now do we,

These sorts of labels are still being produced today,
Australia produces genuine stamps with printed
cancellations Lucky, to use as "shop props"
displays, promotions etc etc.

Well, I'm a gal who don't scare easy (and can run real fast when I do)

Lucky

Rod,
I think You have this one wrong...

According to Michel Gulf States catalog, the 1972 m/s has has only one stamp with face value of 4 Rials (not four stamps of 1 rials); and the sheets size should be 78x98mm (whereas the displayed sheet is pretty close to a square).

Secondly... AFAIK, most (if not all) Sharjah items postmarked (CTO) Dec 1972 (or later) are unissued remainders. These are basically stamps that the printers had the intend to issue, but due to birth of United Arab Emirates were too late. As these have no official status, none of the postage stamp catalogs (including Michel too) do not list these... A somewhat similar CTO-cancelled remainder sheet can be seen on my blog: http://www.stampcollectingblog.com/...istory-2.php ; these are very plenty / easy to find.

Hello scb,

with respect,
I strongly disagree with your entire suggestion.

1. That is not a minisheet, it is simply a block
of 4 labels of 1rl.
2. Unnissued remainders?..absolutely no way
they are labels, printed in the US or Great Britain
and have a murky involvement with a board member of
Stanley Gibbons IIRC.

The weblink I cannot vouch for, I do not know
who created it, or their source.
These "dune" stamps were a vast scam.

Most of these stamps were printed in Lebanon.

A firm named Baroody Stamp Company, of Beirut, owned by Michel Stephan, produced these issues. Baroody Stamp Company was responsible for most of the notorious Sand Dunes stamp releases. Stephan retained a large stock of Sand Dunes stamps and continued faking errors for many years after 1972.

Michel Stephan was assisted by a business partner, Ed Mosden (Ezzet Moshi), who produced many of the Kennedy memorials (one South Arabian emission of which is being debated on another thread). Mosden produced a Kennedy memorial issue for the Philippines.

Mosden is of interest to me because he produced the St. Lucia Statehood overprints. Here is a rare cover franked with a stamp overprinted by Mosden which was not available in St. Lucia. One of two covers to come onto the market in the last 15 years:

If you scroll down to Sharjah on this link, you can see the 4 butterflies separated
(that were printed as a block), and the souvenir sheet of one butterfly.

http://www.silverdalen.se/stamps/4s...fly_ss_m.htm

This is a scan of the front of the glassine envelope they were in.



Lucky