Unissued Stamps.

I just posted this one on ILS's CSA thread, but I'll stick it here too, because it applies.
CSA #14 unissued John C. Calhoune. Stamps were designed and printed in England by De La Rue and by the time the second shipment arrived in Richmond (the first confiscated by the north) the 1¢ rate no longer applied.

Canada doesn't have much of a history of unreleased stamps - there are plenty of essays and design proofs and so on, but they rarely print up a stamp and then change their minds on things.  As far as I know, these are the only such issues in Canadian history.  These two 1994 Christmas stamps were created in anticipation of a postal rate increase which didn't actually happen in time to make use of the stamps.  A rush order was placed for the same designs in the denominations actually in use at the time, and the stamps printed with the hoped-for rate increases were supposedly destroyed.  However, a fairly large number of the 52c stamps survived, as did some of the 90c stamps (much fewer of these, no multiples are known whereas the 52c can be found in blocks).  There's a good article about these stamps available on the Saskatoon Stamp Centre website.

www.saskatoonstamp.com/prs_xmas.htm





Ryan

A MAN AND HIS POTATOES !

Allan Crawford was born in Wales in 1912 and became an Engineer and surveyor. He also became the leading authority on the South Atlantic Island of Tristan da Cuhna and in the early 1940's designed a set of stamps with which the Islanders, headed by Crawford, petitioned the British Government. The stamps and the idea were turned down but much later Philately played a major part in the financial fortunes of the Isalnd.

3 petitions were drawn up, each the same and they included a strip of one design which was printed and perforated.



The 1d Red was also valued in potatoes, in this case 4 potatoes, as there was no currency on the Island. 4 potatoes was equvalent to 3 cigarettes which could also be used. The printed '4 potatoes' value can be found on covers and was also used on occasion for 'Philatelic' local use.

Together with the written petition and the strip of 4 were a set of 9 artist drawings of the proposed designs.
All the other items here are mine but the one below, sadly, is not ! It is from the 2012 Daniel Kelleher Auction of Tristan material. I could not afford the $3,000 !!



Cluett Burns of Southampton reproduced the designs on Souvenir sheets in 1976. Can you spot the missing design ??



The sheet above is on thick paper and ungummed.

Reproductions of the 'issued' designs in blocks of 4 included some copies signed by Mr.Crawford himself. There exists, though sadly not in my collection [nor, no doubt, in my lifetime] the same sheets with missing text or with missing stamps. These sheets are also ungummed.





The 9 values sheet [above] also exists as individual labels [cut out] but with gum. I have the set but show two designs below so you can see more clearly how sweet the set actually is.





All in all, a very beautiful and interesting unissued issue !!

Allan B. Crawford died in 2007 at the grand old age of 94.
This Daily Telegraph Obituary sums up his life very well.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1545199/Allan-Crawford.html

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