ISSUE 182 - February 6, 2026 - Stamp News Online Magazine
The World of Stamps:
The Emirates in the 1960s
By Geir Sør-Reime
In the early 1960s, I saw a notice in a small local newspaper that had a stamp-collecting editorial entitled “Stamp Problems around the Gulf”. In brief, it told the story about how the seven emirates of the Trucial Coast, now the United Arab Emirates, got their own, individual stamps. That story has fascinated me ever since, and although collecting the stamps of the “sand dune” countries was . . .
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