rod222
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Post by rod222 on Feb 11, 2014 1:34:36 GMT
Admin: Please consider a sub-board under Europe for Ionian Islands. 3 gaps, seeking to purchase missing if members have duplicates.  The stamps overprinted “ISOLE JONIE” were issued for all the Ionian Islands except Cerigo which used regular postage stamps of Greece. CV : $3 9 Stamps. (check for 30c and 50c air, "SOLE" instead of " ISOLE" CV $35 )   |
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Post by cjd on Feb 1, 2015 21:40:26 GMT
I added a few more Ionian Islands this week. The originals 1859 Brits, not the occupations. I picked up a 1, a 2, and two 3s.   The story is told often, but I don't think it has been told here yet, so... The colors represent the values. Orange paid 1/2d, blue paid 1d and carmine paid 2d. The 1d and the 2d were watermarked with their intended values (i.e., a "1" watermark and a "2" watermark); however, the islands' postal administrators changed things up and issued the "2" watermarked blue stamp as a 1d, and vice versa. You would more commonly expect to see red 1d stamps and blue 2d stamps. All three stamps were printed from the same plate, with only a change in color. 50,000 sets were printed. Charles H. Jeens engraved the queen's head after a Henry Corbould drawing. The same die also appears on some Ceylon stamps. A Corbould drawing also was the inspiration for the Penny Black. So, the classic-era Ionian Islands collection is complete at three stamps, and each one has different watermark properties; none, "2" and "1". I think I'm close to three complete sets now, with the goal of assembling one very nice set. The plates have some known reentries, so at some point, I could probably start looking for those, I suppose. |
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Feb 1, 2015 23:04:53 GMT
I added a few more Ionian Islands this week. The originals 1859 Brits, not the occupations. I picked up a 1, a 2, and two 3s. A Corbould drawing also was the inspiration for the Penny Black. Lovely Stamps cjd ! Can we assume this was the Queen at 15 yo? The Wyon Medallion. The last suggestion as the inspiration for the penny black, must come under debate. One of the Henry Corbould portraits in the National Postal Museum is on a quarto-sized piece of paper which had originally been folded into a letter, sealed with wax, and sent by post by Henry to Messrs Perkins Bacon, Fleet Street. The letter is postmarked 18 October 1837. Since none of Henry’s portraits is the one used on the Penny Black stamp, then it can be assumed that Henry’s portraits were used by Perkins Bacon for bank notes or other stamps - see examples of Henry's works and see below. The collection originally contained four portraits of Queen Victoria prepared by Henry Corbould in 1837. Popular history incorrectly says that these portraits formed the basis of the image of the queen on the Penny Black postage stamp, which was first issued in 1840. The originals of the four portraits are displayed in the National Postal Museum in London. Each portrait is an exquisitely-executed pencil and wash illustration of Queen Victoria, who in 1837 was just 18 years old and had just ascended to the throne. It is probable that Henry Corbould’s portraits were based on the medal (see left) designed by William Wyon to commemorate Queen Victoria’s first visit to the City of London after her ascension to the throne in 1837. William Wyon had modelled the Princess when she was 15, in 1834. The image on that medal is almost exactly replicated on the Penny Black stamp. www.corbould.com/artists/hc/hc.html |
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Feb 1, 2015 23:12:29 GMT
Those stamps make interesting consideration study,
BeeSee would probably describe it better than I,
but the bust is drawn with the face of the Queen "exactly" central,
this becomes awkward when the neck is added, and the Queen appears to be "tilting forward"
I cannot recall the name for the actual central axis when drawing a bust.
I think this is discussed in Eaton's Books.
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Post by Admin on Feb 2, 2015 0:30:28 GMT
rod222 I think the word is Oaxes
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Post by cjd on Feb 2, 2015 2:27:56 GMT
Robbie Lowe is the source for the name of the engraver and his inspiration on the Ionians. I didn't check Lowe or Easton for info on the Penny Black, but I can.
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Post by rod222 on Feb 2, 2015 6:36:15 GMT
rod222 I think the word is Oaxes Interesting Admin, I do not recall the name. However it is something like the line from the oaxes has to be a few degrees in front of a line that would bisect the bust vertically, to have the bust look vertical. I'd better get some info, I am floundering here  Got it ! In the Ionian examples the head lies in the Mathematical centre of the stamp, Compare this with say a Machin head, the centre axis lies somewhere around the chin, this centres up the Vignette, vertically. |
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