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215219 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
1979 Faroe Provisional (Europa) Issue ESSAYS by stamp designer Holger Philipsen, the designer of the issued set of stamps. These essays are said to have been produced in the process of designing the stamp issue. Though modern, they seem to be very scarce; I only learned of them in 2003. Imperforate 4-block design showing all four corners of the perforated BISECT STAMP, 1.60 denomination. Blue on very light yellow background (simulated watermark, like the issued stamps). |
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244952 "View REPRESENTATIVE Image"){kind=small} |
1979 Faroe "2" and "2" 140 oyru Provisional Overprint (Europa) Issue FULL SHEET of ESSAYS (proposed stamp design) by stamp designer Holger Philipsen, the designer of the issued set of stamps. These essays are said to have been produced in the process of designing the stamp issue. Depending upon how you count them, I know of five or six essay designs/formats, plus perforation differences on one or two of them. Though modern, they seem to be very scarce -- some seem to be much scarcer than others; I only learned of some of them in 2003 and some I have not yet actually owned. THIS design is vertically oriented with the Danish 5 øre stamp with two handwritten "2" numerals covering the "5"s; the Danish stamp is on a blue background with "ESSAY 1 1919" in white. Below that is "140 / FØROYAR" in blue outline with red filling. All on a white background with blue simulated (printed) perforation outlines. This is in a 5x5 sheet surrounded by a thin blue border frameline; the frameline rectangle measures 134 x 171 mm. Below that is an 26th stamp oriented sideways, with registration marks to the left and right. Next to that is handwritten text "RØD" (in red), "ULTRAMIN" crossed out and "HIMMELBLÅ" written below (all in blue), and "GRØN" (in green). Everything is printed (i.e. the "handwriting" is a printed image of handwriting). The overall size of the entire item is 175 x 274 mm. This general format and concept (vertical, colored background block, positioning of the text, etc.) is very much like the 180 oyru issued stamp (Scott #44) except that this essay pictures an original essay of the overprint (with two "2" numerals) but the final issued 1979 stamp pictures the final issued overprinted Scott #1. This is a very attractive essay -- it is too bad that this design was not an additional member of the issued set of stamps. The original handwritten essay (two "2" numerals) was eventually pictured as part of the 2019 100th anniversary souvenir sheet. Perhaps this essay will be used for the design of a future anniversary of the 1919 issue. |
350.00 |