Major color shift on Ajman stamp
Here’s another recent addition to my Middle East albums: a major color shift on Ajman stamp. As Michel does not illustrate all the (gazillion) stamps issued under the name of Ajman, I feared I might have some hard time identifying this one properly. Based on the looks of stamp as well as the 1 Rial face value, I decided to limit my search to year 1973 and work from there backwards. And boy, was I lucky. I found a match almost immediately.
1973 Ajman. Michel #2824: Holy mass of Gregory the Great, from the 'Famous paintings - life of Christ'. A truly tiny stamp (14x21mm) with stunning color shift.
This stamp series (like many other of stamps of Ajman) was issued twice: on regular size as well as on much smaller mini-size. Both sizes were issued on sheets of 16 different stamps (4×4 stamps).
1973 Ajman. A side-by-side comparison of regular and mini-sized stamps.
As usual for most of my finds, this one came from unsorted bulk lot. Possibly the only complaint I have that it is on such a tiny stamp that the error is somewhat hard to see properly without a magnifier 
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These Ajman/Manama/Umm al-Kaiwain Mini-Stamps are ridiculous. But nice color-shift, it looks like 3-D!
One Question, my Michel-Catalogue is from 1999 and doesn’t list any Ajman stamps after 1972. In fact it says that the above stamp is from ‘72, not ‘73. Has that changed in more recent catalogues?
@Holger… They might be ridiculous, but they are lots of fun
Re Michel catalog… Yes, 1973 is a separate section (for Ajman as well as for other Dune states). Likely they’ve just changed the years to reflect the current philatelic knowledge. I think the change was introduced sometime in early 2000s.
I like that thought, Holger. I wish I had a pair of 3-D glasses and Keijo’s stamp to check it out.