Yesterday I started the series on Lessons from a stamp album with the serious stuff, choosing Poland and the Soviet Union to explore the messages that states want to project.
So here were postage stamps about the victories of Polish arms in the Middle Ages and the heroicsacrifice of the Russian people in the last world war along with the achivements of Soviet space technology.
But today it is fun.
And fun that comes in the form of stamps from Sharjah which my wikipedia tells me is is "the emirate Sharjah.
The emirate shares legal, political, military and economic functions with the other emirates of the UAE within a federal framework, although each emirate has jurisdiction over some functions such as civil law enforcement and provision and upkeep of local facilities.
Sharjah has been ruled by the Al Qasimi dynasty since the 18th century".
It is also the name for the capital of "the emirate", which is a centre for culture and industry, and alone contributes 7.4% of the GDP of the United Arab Emirates".*
Someone will know why it choses to go for a collection of stamps based on Walt Disney cartoon, but I am glad they did.
Location; Sharjah
Pictures; stamps from Sharjah, 1970s, from the collection of Stella Simpson
*Sharjah, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharjah
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