Ajman 1972 Dürer

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  • Label : „Postal Service of the Emirate Ajman“; 1972; commemorative block issue to the issue "500th Anniversary of birth of Albrecht Dürer" and supplement-issue to the issue "Paintings from the Old Pinakothek in Munich" (West Germany);

(issue of 1 airmail block à 1 imperforate stamp)

meant is the German painter of the Renaissance Albrecht Dürer (21 May 1471 – 06 April 1528)

Stamp datas:

  • Catalogue number : Michel: Block No. 371
  • Color : multicolored
  • Watermark : none
  • Nominal value : 5 (Riyals)
  • Postage validity : 06 July 1972 – April 1973
  • Designed by : ? (on order of George Koro (then "Postmaster of the Emirate Ajman"))
  • Printed by : "Questa Colour Limited", London (very probably)
  • Print process : Offset printing on luminescent paper
  • Peforation : none (imperforate)
  • Print run : ?
  • Stamp size :
- printed area of a single stamp : 34.5 x 47.0 mm
- cutted format of a block : 107.0 x 69.5 mm


Commemorative block issue to the issue "500th Anniversary of birth of Albrecht Dürer" and supplement-issue to the issue "Paintings from the Old Pinakothek in Munich" (West Germany);
(issue of 1 airmail block à 1 imperforate stamp)

Block-issue

mint

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Michel Block No. 371, mint

postmarked

Michel Block No. 371, postmarked


To the stamp motive:
- 5 (Riyals) : stamp with a detail of the painting by Albrecht Dürer, "Self-portrait in a fur-collared robe", created in the year 1500 in the style of the Renaissance; contemporary located in the "Old Pinakothek", Munich (This painting is there since 1805.); from the text of the official description to this painting : "Frontal portrait with idealisation comparably with Christ's representations; stressed look in Dürer‘s eyes to the creative hand as tools of the artist"