Panoramic View of Dubai Creek- 10 naye paise

Panoramic View of Dubai Creek- 10 naye paise

Year
1964
Face Value
10
Mint Value
-
Used Value
-
Print Run
-
Themes
Sites and landscapes

Catalogs References

Michel
DB 105
Yvert & Tellier
DB 39
Stanley Gibbons
DB 81

Technical Details

Colors
Multicolor
Perforation
12
Printing
Offset
Designer
Paul Koroleff
Printers
Helio Electronic Press
This stamp from the early 1960s highlights the historical and commercial heart of the Emirate of Dubai (دبي). The wide panoramic vignette captures a sweeping aerial view of Dubai Creek (خور دبي), populated with traditional water taxis (abras) and wooden dhows moving along the waterway that separates Deira from Bur Dubai. The urban landscape showcases the dense low-rise commercial structures and coral-stone buildings that defined the trading port before its rapid late-twentieth-century modernization.