Ras al Khaima 4 riyals Apollo 14 air mail stamp (1972)

            This air mail stamp (= Michel Catalog # 706) was issued in 1972 by Ras al Khaima, which is located in the eastern Arabian Peninsula, on the eastern end of the Persian Gulf.  Ras al Khaima is both a city and a country (also referred to as an emirate, a sheikdom, a Trucial State, and a confederation).  In modern times, it is part of the "U.A.E." = the United Arab Emirates.  Ras al Khaima formerly issued many postage stamps in the 1960s and 1970s, as did other Trucial States in the region.  The stamps were created specifically to be sold to non-domestic stamp collectors to raise money ("revenue") for each country.  They were not even printed in the countries that bear their names.  As such, they are not really postage stamps - they were not sold from Ras al Khaima post offices and not used on their mail.  Many depict subjects or topics completely non-related to the home country (such as the example seen here).  Serious stamp collectors collectively call these non-stamps "Dunes" or "Trucials" and consider them worthless.  There's reportedly been renewed interest in Trucial stamps in recent years.

The stamp seen here is part of a set depicting America's Apollo 14 mission to the Moon.

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Taken on: September 10, 2024

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