Trucial States

As a topical Olympic collector, I simply love all the information on Olympic winners on their 1968 and 1972 stamps. For example, both Ajman and Umm al Qiwain issued sets with ALL the winners of Winter Olympics 1972. No one else did. Not even the winners' own countries.

As to their legitimacy... true, Scott doesn't list them. But Michel does. Good enough for me.

I collect them,
instead of throwing them away
put them in the for sale section.

Trucial States, aka Sand Dunes, have a greater following in Europe, which is why Michel catalogs them. There are a few very rare items, but if you throw the baby out with the bath water, you'll never know. For better or for worse, they are part of our philatelic history, and nobody learned anything, it's still going on -- full speed ahead -- just a different bunch of countries. I have thousands of them.

I been working on a collection of YEMEN ,they are boarder line sand dune issues .

I keep them, but they don't get as much attention as other countries.

The typical thematic rubbish? Incineration is too good for them

But a heads-up for Trucial States collectors: Indian stamps with Experimental PO K-46 postmarks dated between late 1941 and early 1943 probably originated in Dubai or Sharjah, although it seems the cancellation may actually have been applied in Karachi. Still, eminently worthy of a place in a Trucial States collection.

They go in the 'for sale' box.

I just sent close to 500 of them to a friend of mine who loves them. Myself personally, I feel that they are pumped out by the umpteen thousands and they choose subjects that are not indicative to their countries.

My opinion of course.

Chimo

Bujutsu

I collect them, especially the Dofar/Imamate Oman issues. They're interesting. From what I understand, the covers are starting to increase in value.

I, too, collect them. While they may not be "postal" history, as they are seldom seen postally used, they are indeed part of the history of stamp collecting. Besides, on the rare occasion that a non-collector browses through my albums (usually a captive-audience houseguest), the Dunes are often the only stamps they find interesting, given their varied subjects and entertaining "artwork".