Stamps of Fujairah: The First Gold Foil Stamps
For the Kennedy, Churchill and Space sets, a stamp from each set was also produced in Gold Foil. The stamp is known either perf or imperf. A deluxe Minisheet version of the imperf stamp is also known.
For some reasons, Michel’s Gulf States Catalogue and Minkus Trucial States catalogue do not mention the Kennedy and Churchill Gold stamps and only includes the Space perf Gold (cat nos A77 and 77B respectively) but does not include the imperf and Delux minisheet formats.
It is not clear when these stamps were issued. First Day Covers with either Churchill or Kennedy gold stamp shows 24th April 1969 – way after the set was issued
The specialist space dealer EspaceLollini gives the date for the Space Gold stamp as 30 May 1966 which is the same as the original set.
It has been suggested that there may only be 500 stamps issued in this Gold format for each type. It would be interesting to know how many were sold! These Gold stamps were NOT advertised by the Post Office in the advertising brochure produced for the release of the stamps. So how did customers (and dealers) find out about these issues? Could it be that they were only known to Finbar Kenny who had the contract to issue Fujeira Stamps? These issues are said to be for ‘Demonstration purposes’. What does this mean?
