Stamps of Fujairah: 1968 – Winter Olympics
Before the first Post Office was opened in Fujairah, the locals used a courier Saeed Mohammed Tanaji to take letters to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and collect mail on his way back to Fujairah. Secondly, there was also a grocery named Abdul Rasak Grocery.
They would accept mails from locals and take it to Dubai to be sent out. He would also collect any mails for locals from the Dubai Post Office. This information was obtained from locals and unfortunately, there are no letters known from this period to confirm this.
1968 – Winter Olympics
25 Jan: 25Dh; 50Dh; 75Dh; 1R; 1.50R; 2R &3R ‘Postage’ stamps;
The 25Dh stamp was also produced in Gold. Again no mention of this format is mentioned in the publicity brochure for this issue. Ii seems obvious that these gold issues were only produced after 1970 when the contract was terminated by the Government and Finbar Kenny tried to benefit from the legality of issues that had already been produced.
According to the publicity brochure, this souvenir sheet would be available in both perf & imperf, but it is only available as imperf. It is also interesting to note that this minisheet was also overprinted for the Summer Olympics and is only known imperf as well. Michel lists this minisheet overprintd Sopporo ’72 in both perf & imperf.
The 3 lower values of the 1968 Winter Olympics set overprinted for the Mexico Summer Olympics issue but not issued. It has been indicated to me that the overprint on these stamps are ‘in an inappropriate place on the athletes’ and therefore decided not to be included in the set.
