From the arid desert of the United Arab Emirates come these two beautiful stamps which feature the falcon:
Falcons are featured on many stamp issues of the UAE Postal Office. |
The falcon is used for hunting in Arab lands, and remain an important cultural symbol in the country. The stamps used in this cover feature a stylised illustration of a falcon (left) that was issued in 2007 valued at 5dirhams, and the 6dirham definitive (right) which I believe was a 2007 re-issue of the 1990 falcon series of the same design.
If you notice the cancellation mark is upside-down. Actually the stamps were glued to the cover upside-down so I scanned it the other way around so the stamps are in the correct position (at least for one of the stamps) :)
8 comments:
Both are lovely stamps far nicer than the few I have from the UAR
Nice stamps, the stylised one with the sweeping lines reminds me a little of Arab calligraphy.
I love the stylised falcon on the left!
I like the stylized one too. I'm glad you mentioned that only one of the stamps was in the correct orientation because I didn't realize that at first.
I like the falcon stamp!
Nice little stamp! Falconry values some birds in the range of $1,000,000.
Beautiful bird in that one stamp. Thanks for participating.
Very nice stamps.
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