Dubai 100 Different Stamps

A Cross-Section of
Dubai's Philatelic Era —
100 Different Stamps

Between 1963 and 1972, the emirate of Dubai operated its own postal service and issued stamps independently — a brief window that produced one of the more colorful and varied catalogs in the Middle East. The emirate's postal administration produced stamps covering everything from local wildlife to the Apollo moon landing, from Victorian literature to Arabian Gulf falconry, all printed in the vivid colors that distinguished collector-market issues of the era.

One hundred different stamps gives you genuine breadth across the Dubai catalog, from the nature definitives that anchored the regular series to the larger commemoratives that marked world events.

Specific stamps vary, but these are some of the subjects and topics you can expect across 100 issues:

• Apollo 11 moon landing — the large-format stamp depicting astronauts on the lunar surface, inscribed "Here Men from the Planet Earth First Set Foot Upon the Moon," issued December 1969. One of Dubai's most recognizable stamps, and a popular piece for space topical collections.
• Birds — pheasant and Red-footed Falcon (60 Dirham) — Dubai's bird definitives include both migratory species that pass through the region and birds from wider afield. The Red-footed Falcon (Falco vespertinus) is a migratory raptor that passes through the Arabian Peninsula on its way between Europe and Africa, making it a genuinely relevant subject for a Gulf state. The pheasant appears among the broader wildlife issues.
• Charles Dickens centenary (1.25 Riyals, 1870–1970) — a stamp marking the centenary of Charles Dickens's death, featuring a vignette design with a lamp-lit scene. Victorian literature centennials were a popular subject across the Trucial States catalogs, appealing to collectors in Britain and beyond.
• Flowers — Convolvulus and Althaea rosea — botanical illustrations of bindweed (Convolvulus) and hollyhock (Althaea rosea) from Dubai's flora series, in the vivid colors that characterized the emirate's nature issues throughout its postal history.
• Nature and wildlife series — across 100 stamps, you'll find multiple values from Dubai's nature definitives, covering birds, insects, butterflies, marine creatures, and flowering plants from around the world.

One hundred stamps from nine years of independent Gulf philately — a collecting area that closed in 1972 and will never reopen. Order today.