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Crewe violet (no.20) by
the artist F. Mouret |
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Identical Farnham (no.22)
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19 - Coatbridge, Scottish soldier with kilt, surrounded by a ribbon, light brown.
20 - Crewe (illustrated here) - artist F. Mouret, violet.
21 - Essex, Coat of Arms, 1/2d, dark green, violet, blue, red and orange.
22 - Farnham (illustrated here) - identical to Crewe (no. 20), but in red only, artist F, Mouret.
23 - Gloucester (illustrated here) - 1/2d, dark green, olive green, dark orange-brown, orange.
24 - Guernsey (illustrated here) - fine view of St. Peters Port harbour, in violet and in green. Both colours are shown on these pages.
25 - Inverness (illustrated here) - Scottish soldier with feathered bonnet, in red.
26 - Ipswich (illustrated here) - 1/2d Suffolk, Ipswich, black on red.
27 - Monmouthshire (illustrated here) - red dragon and black frame, also red and blue, and red and green, artist signed, but can't exactly determine the name.
28 - Plymouth - view of town houses, dark red-brown, wine coloured.
29 - Shipstonon Stock - three children on a seat, violet, olive green, dark blue.
30 - Southribble - 1/2d, Head of 'Victory' with plumed helmet, olive green.
31 - Wimbledon - 1/2d, identical to Chipping Norton (no. 17), violet, mauve.
32 - Worcester - similar design to the Gloucester issue (no. 23), with church illustration, dark green, orange. |
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The Gloucester 1/2d (no.23) in
its olive gren incarnation. |
The Inverness (no.25) Scottish
soldier with feathered bonnet |
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The black on red Suffolk,
Ipswich (no.26) pin-perfed. |
The Monmouthshire (no.27) two
colour stamp with red dragon in centre |
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If all the different colours are counted there are 62 variants to collect. All are perf 11 with the exception of 'Ipswich' (no. 26). This stamp is 'pin-perfed' with small holes and is the only stamp printed on coloured paper (red). In all 11 stamps have the price of 1/2d indicated. There is only one stamp design printed in two colours - Monmouthshire (27). Three pairs of towns have identical designs - (10 & 12), (17 & 31), (20 & 22). We would suggest that three town types are by the same artist (116, 23 and 32).
The choice of towns is most unusual. In 1920, Gloucester had a population of 750,000, and Plymouth had 250,000. Of the smaller towns Conway had a population of 8,000, Camelford 7,000 and Chipping Norton 3,600. There does not appear to be any reason why these towns were chosen. If any reader has fresh ideas, we would be delighted to report them in this column. The series of stamps are a fascinating aspect of poster stamps. |
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