Baroody Essays for Other Entities

In addition to the contract for Dubai, Mr. Stephan had contracts with the Sheikhs of Ajman, Fujeira and Umm al-Qiwain. Due to the heavy financial investment to get the production of stamps underway and the opening of the Dubai Post Office, these Sheikhdom's stamp production was set aside.

Mr. Stephan, however, did have essays printed for the Sheikhdoms, but nothing ever came of the effort. In time, he sold the contracts and never became involved in the stamps of the three sheikhdoms.

The essays exist in the form one would expect such to exist - a variety of images, colors, combinations of color, on gummed paper, perforated and imperforated. Ironoically, the perforated stamps are seldom seen as most were sold to collectors imperforated. Even the waste paper that was used to during the printing process was saved and sold. Many are illustrated here.

When multiples are shown, they are listed under the sheikhdom shown in the upper left hand corner of the piece.

Additionally, Mr. Stephan produced some issues for another group and the name of the country on the essays was Audhali. The hawk perching on a branch, prepared in the reddish-orange and blue format for Fujeira, also appeared on the Audhali essays, in various colors.

• A complete sheet of 112 essays for proposed stamps of Fujeira, Ajman and Umm Al-Qiwain. Note that all three rulers are portrayed on the various essays. Also, note that the same image of a falcoln is used in the upper half, center essays for Ajman and also used in the bottom left two columns for Fujeira. The images are for the 5np, 10np and 50np values. This sheet has seven stamps horizontally and sixteen vertically. Every sheet containing the same three values were printed in this format, only the colors were changed.
  
  

• LEFT: The blue background for the center color used in the essays with the red, and shades of red, frame. Note that the color is sculpted to fit the inside of the frame.
  RIGHT: The pink background used for the entire stamp for some essays. This rectangle of pink also exists in yellow, but I have never seen it, nor owned a copy.
  Both centers are on gummed paper. On the various pages for the three Sheikhdoms you will find the blue image printed on the reverse of some of the essays on waste paper.
  
  

• A full sheet of 96 essays of 10np, 30np and 50np values for Umm Al-Qiwain, Fujeira and Ajman. Note that the duck image and the fish were used for different values for a different Sheikhdom in the purple sheet above this sheet.
  
  This layout of the three values did not change for all the sheets printed. Only the colors where changed.
  
  

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