The stamp symbolizes a trip aboard the Orient-Express... as in a dream. The locomotive emits white smoke characteristic of trains of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the night, she passes in front of a mountainous landscape that takes the profile of a women face peacefully asleep... as in a dream.

A crescent moon illuminates the scene, evoking the East. The Pullman cars, although they did not travel on the 1st Orient-Express, are part of the Orient-Express myth in the collective imagination. The interior of a lounge car in art-deco style illustrates the cover... the dream continues... the trip leaves to see through the window Paris then Constantinople. On the left, a detail of a panel decorated by the famous master glassmaker René Lalique. The folio background evokes the inaugural journey of the Orient-Express from Paris (the Eiffel Tower) to Constantinople (Hagia Sophia) via Vienna (City Hall) and Budapest (the parliament)