Sand Dune Country Stamp Info Source

I have accumulated many stamps from Sand Dune countries with various collections bought over the years. Is there any place to find more info about them since Scott does not include them? Mostly want to know years issued.

I have the Michel catalog which list those stamps . Prices are easy , sell all you want for 2 cents each in mixture lots .I get them for less . Kelleher Auctions have sold pallets of them {that is 1500 lbs } for about a penny per sheet .

Thanks floortrader.. I had a look at Stamp World for them. WOW!! They put out lots of stamps. Were any of them actually used for postage or just pretty paper. I don't collect them as such. Or want to. They just came along with other stamps.

I have been able to print Steiner pages for them. I have just looked them up on eBay and then matched to the Steiner page.
My biggest concern is singles from large stamp sets where I end up with one stamp per page. Sets are more interesting but in general I have been unloading them.

OLDDUTCH2 ----There was a philatelic researcher/ author who put together a exhibit and won a medal at a stamp show . He prove the fact that they were valid postage stamps .

I kept one copy of each stamp in my Cinderella collection and use the above mention catalog numbers to make pages. But the ones I have all came in bulk lots that I purchased {kind of came for the ride } for free .

You don't necessarily need a new-ish catalogue. You can get a feel for anything that might be worth more than pennies by the relative values in one of the old catalogues.

You can look for a Michel Gulf States, or Gibbons, or the Minkus Trucial States catalogue.

There is a strong prejudice against these in the U.S. If you want to put in the time to find the needles that aren't hay, you might also need to figure out where to sell them.

My (relatively dated) 2d. (I certainly have a bunch, but I no longer routinely acquire them, because I'm not currently buying giant box lots.)

floortrader: There is a huge difference between those stamps in mint condition and stamps that were genuinely used on covers on regular mail. The former ones are mostly laughed at (not only in the USA, everyhwere). The latter bring good prices whenever one shows up on ebay as they are pretty difficult to acquire.

"stamps in mint condition and stamps that were genuinely used on covers on regular mail. The former ones are mostly laughed at (not only in the USA, everyhwere). The latter bring good prices whenever one shows up on ebay as they are pretty difficult to acquire."

I have a few on cover, but they are from the philatelic office there. Is that what you are referring to or to covers with no philatelic connections?

The subject comes up every few years on German forums. Generally It is not on my radar so I just read what people write when it comes up out of curiosity. You'd have to watch various ebays to see the actual prices of stamps (some issues certainly are "bettter" than others I'd guess as always with odd stamps).
I remember a decades old standing offer of (I think) $1000 for a genuinely used "Face on Mars" stamp on cover that hasn't been cashed in. Not a sanddunes issue, but same sand...

Here's a few covers I posted somewhere else a few years ago. Notice how the Ajman and Manama stamps were both sent from Ajman. Would consider these philatelic since the receiver was Minkus...

Here is one from Fujeira sent registered to West Germany. Sure philatelic cover.

Unless Minkus was receiving dozens or hundreds and selling them as covers, I think that a philatelic bureau sending out legitimate mailings (e.g., purchased stamps, notices of new issues) is less "philatelic" than many concoctions that somehow manage to use an entire set and end up overpaying the rate by threefold.

Put another way, just because a cover is related to stamps doesn't necessarily mean it is philatelic?

I know we've discussed this before, and I don't recall if I have to duck now, or not. We'll see...