Ajman Essays
Essays Printed on Ungummed Waste Paper
When the front and reverse of an item are shown it is shown as if a page were turned in a book. That is why some of the reverse images may appear inverted.
- LEFT: A light brown essay of the 5np value.
RIGHT: The reverse with a partial pair of frames from the quail essay, a pair of quail essays and a partial pair of the falcon issue of Fujeira in a darker brown.
- LEFT: A very dark image of the 5np value.
RIGHT: The reverse with partial frames from a 5np quail essay, and a pair of quail essays from Fujeira and a partial image of two falcon essays from Ajman.
- LEFT: A block of the 5np value that is double printed and thus has a blurry appearance.
RIGHT: The back of the block.
- LEFT: Double printing of the purple frame of the 5np value. This essay has the rectangular pink background behind the entire stamp. It has only been printed once.
RIGHT: The reverse of the essay.
- LEFT: A darker shade of blue of the 5np value.
RIGHT: The reverse.
- LEFT: A lighter shade of blue of the 5np value.
RIGHT: The reverse. Note that it appears similar to the one above it, but there is a slight difference where the printing was cut.
- LEFT: A block of the 10np value that is double printed and thus has a blurry appearance.
RIGHT: The reverse of the block.
- LEFT: The 10np value is a darker shade of blue.
RIGHT: The reverse of the block.
- LEFT: A lighter shade of blue of the 10np value.
RIGHT: The reverse. The back appears to be similar to the one above it, but there are subtle differences where the writing was cut.
- LEFT: A double impression of the purple frame of the 10np value, from the same sheet as the falcon block above. This too has the rectangular pink background for the entire stamp.
- LEFT: A block of four of the 10np value in dark brown.
RIGHT: A partial block of four of the 5np value for Fujeira, in lighter brown. Due to the fact that the images were printed on both sides of the paper and not lined up, whenever you cut a block from one side, it cuts into the images on the reverse.
- LEFT: A block of four of the 10np value in light brown.
RIGHT: The reverse of the block has a partial block of the 5np Fujeira essay in a darker brown.
- LEFT: A block of four containg two each of the 30np and 50np values in red.
RIGHT: The reverse of the block.
- LEFT: Another block of four of the 30np and 50np values in blue.
RIGHT: The reverse of the block with four impressions of the blue center used for some essays, but inverted.
- LEFT: A block with a pinkish frame and center on the blue background center contaiing the images for the 30np and the 50np values.
RIGHT: The reverse.
- LEFT: A bi-colored pane of eight essays of the 30np and 50np vlaues in light pink, with a blue center background. The writing to the right of the stamps reads, "NESTLE".
RIGHT: The reverse of the pane.
- LEFT: Another pane of eight of the same two denominations in red.
RIGHT: The reverse of the pane.
- LEFT: Another pane of eight of the same two values in light blue.
RIGHT: On the reverse are eight inverted blue background images.
Essays Printed on Gummed Paper
- ABOVE: A brown over yellow 5np value.
- ABOVE: A blue over pink 5np value.
- ABOVE: This is a blue over a very pale yellow 5np value. It is almost impossible to see the yellow.
- ABOVE: A light blue over light yellow.
- ABOVE: Blue over pink 10np value.
- ABOVE: Blue over deep yellow 10np value.
- ABOVE: Red over pink 10np value
- ABOVE: Brown over light yellow 10np value
- ABOVE Blue over light yellow 10np value.
- ABOVE: A block of four of the 30np and 50np values in light pink with blue misplaced centers, on gummed paper. All blocks with this color combination are from the sheet with six different images and can only exist with two different stamps in them as each horizontal row consisted of six different stamp images, and each row was identical in format.
- ABOVE: A pane of six of the 5np and 10np values with a darker blue frame and pink background.
- ABOVE: The upper right hand corner of a sheet.
