Essays are stamp designs that were submitted to postal authorities and that ultimately were not used. Sometimes essay designs are altered only slightly and used, and sometimes they are entirely rejected by the postal authority.
Essay - a proposed stamp design submitted to the postal authorities but not accepted. Some essays are rendered photographically, others are drawn in pencil or ink or are painted.
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Essay A design which has been submitted for a stamp issue.
Europa Issues Some European countries since 1956 to further the project of a United Europe and to commemorate the annual European Postal and Telecommunications Conference.
Essay. Artwork of a proposed design for a stamp or piece of postal stationery. An essay must, in fact, be different in some way from the actual design of the issued stamp or stationery.
ESSAY: Preliminary stamp design that is either not used, or is used with changes.
EUROPA: Stamps issued by a group of European nations with a common design theme.
Essay: The artwork of a proposed design for a stamp.
Face: The front of a stamp; the side bearing the design.
Face Value: The value of a stamp as inscribed on its face.
Essay - The artwork of a proposed design for a stamp.
Etiquette - A gummed label applied to an envelope to designate a specific mail service.
*Essay - artwork officially proposed as the design for a stamp. An essay is artwork that was not adopted for the design; hence it differs from the design that was issued.
Essay
After the Scinde Dawk, Colonel Forbes of Calcutta Mint came up with an essay for a postage stamp. It showed a Lion and Palm tree.
Essay. A proposed design for a stamp which was not accepted in its original form.
Facsimile. A term used to designate reproductions of a stamp design.
Filler. An imperfect stamp mounted temporarily.
Added essays for C18, Split into four pages
Trains on US stamps
Various pages
Added text, images, examples, and links to items through 1970 or so ...
A Brief Essay on Postage Stamp Perforations - from University Philatelics "The tooth, the hole tooth and nothing but the tooth!" --Anon. "You may well ask, can there possibly be a less significant subject than this?
Proofs and essays - Still surprisingly affordable, essays are impressions of a rejected stamp design; proofs, the final design printed before the stamps go to production.
Essay: the 1840 British penny black with "V" and "R" in top corner was originally intended as an essay, but now called "Prepared for use but not issued."
V.R.I.
This might include air mail, special delivery, semi-official, official, postage due, local issues, stamped envelopes, post cards, hunting permit stamps, essays, and revenue stamps.
Bahnhof - Railway station
Bahnpost - Railway ...
James Chalmers The first documentary evidence for the Scotsman James Chalmers' claim is the essay and proposal he submitted for adhesive postage stamps, to the General Post Office, ...
Essay Proof Society
A national society with local chapters at New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Tulsa. Holds annual convention and meetings of the chapters each month.
Mueller is one of the United States Stamp Society's most prominent members, chairing committees including the Postal History and Markings Committee and the Essays-Proof Committee, ...
The artwork of a proposed design for a stamp. Some essays are rendered photographically. Others are drawn in pencil or ink or are painted. Most essays are rejected. One becomes the essay for the accepted design.
Europa: ...
Term for trial or pattern strikings. The anglicized version is essay and literally means a test or trial.
Expert
A specialist in a particular numismatic area. (i.e. A gold expert, a Morgan Dollar expert, a CC-Mint expert, etc.) ...
Furthermore, the tax stamps applied to patent medicines were not unlike some of the essays submitted in the Treasury competition.
that are normally listed in the back of the catalogue after the regular stamp issues. This might include air mail, special delivery, semi-official, official, postage due, local issues, stamped envelopes, post cards, hunting permit stamps, essays, ...
 See also: Stamp, Used, Cover, Cancel, Philatelic
  
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