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Meanwhile, the independent administration issued a long definitive
set — 17 ordinary, eight air mail and nine postage due stamps, some of
which perhaps had their inspiration, so far as Lobsters and Pearls are
concerned, in other unaccepted designs for the Trucial States issue.
An official announcement declared “a special policy for issuing
attractive stamps in limited quantities according to the market demand
and easily obtained at normal prices by all subscribers who comply with
our sales conditions”!

Unfortunately, they then allowed a philatelic agency to take control
of the stamp issuing policy — and subsequent issues were unattractive and
were not easily obtainable at normal prices! However, the error of their
ways soon became apparent and, from 1965 onwards, all stamps issued
by the agency were at least readily available at the Post Office. From
March 1967 the Government of Dubai re-assumed full control of its
stamp issues.

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