90 FEBRUARY 2016 w ww.stampandcoin.co.ukTRISTAN da CUNHA
(previously listed in April 2015 issue)044 The Potato Essays, a Petition for
Postage stamps by Allan Crawford,
ten stamps in a sheetlet
Issue date: April 18, 2015; Design: Bee
Design after original designs prepared by Allan
Crawford and Sgt Jimmy Brown as suggestions
for postage stamps of Tristan da Cunha in late
1940s; Printer: Cartor, offset; Perforations:
13.25 x 13.5
Sheetlet of ten stamps and two labels:
50p – ½d (3 potatoes), map of
South Atlantic
50p – 1d (4 potatoes), essay – penguin
and island profile
50p – 1½d (6 potatoes), essay –
map of Tristan
50p – 2d (8 potatoes), essay –
King George VI
50p – 3d (12 potatoes), essay –
Tristan longboat
50p – 4d (16 potatoes), essay –
spinning wheel and shoreline view
50p – 6d (24 potatoes), essay –
girls on shore watching steamship
50p – 1/- (48 potatoes), essay
meteorological station
(operated by Crawford)
50p – 2/6d (120 potatoes), essay –
Tristan Landing Point
50p – Reproduction of ½d purple of St
Helena with TRISTAN da CUNHA
overprint (the first actual stamp)
Labels note Europhilex 2015, London, and
the Penny Black. Border of sheet has further
sketches by Crawford and Brown
Notes: the proposed stamps were denominated
in Sterling and in potatoes, the de facto
currency on Tristan in the 1940s. Allan Crawford
later arranged for the printing of the Potato
stamps in South Africa and the resulting
sheetlets (1d x 4) are in many collections045 The USS Hornet and HMS Penguin (The
War of 1812, two values and a miniature sheet
Issue date: June 2, 2015; Design: Robin Carter;
Printer: BDT, offset; Perforations: 13.75 x 13.5,
or 14 x 14.75 (miniature sheet)
£1.10 – HMS Penguin under full sail
£1.10 – USS Hornet under full sail
Miniature sheet £2.50 – HMS Penguin and
USS Hornet exchange cannon and small arms
fire off Tristan da Cunha, March 23, 1815
Notes: the final action of the War of 1812;
captains of both vessels were unaware that
a Peace Treaty had been signed in Gent in
Januaary 1815046 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta,
four values
Issue date: June 15th, 2015. Design:
Derek Miller; Printer: Lowe-Martin, Canada;
Perforations: 12.75 x 12.75
35p – King John, and barons with the
Magna Carta (document)
80p – View up pathway to Administration
Building on Tristan da Cunha
90p – View of the Administration Building,
Tristan da Cunha
£1.50 – Medals depicting Arms of King John
and King John seated on throne047 The Tristan Lifeboat Disaster,
November 27, 1885, four values
Issue date: September 27, 2015; Design:
Victor Ambrus; Printer: Lowe-Martin, offset;
Perforations: 12.85 x 12.85
35p – Tristan islanders spot the barque
West Riding offshore, and decide
to go out and trade livestock and
potatoes for other provisions
70p – Lifeboat, recently supplied by the
Admiralty to the island, loaded with
provisions, carrying fifteen men
(nearly every able-bodied
Tristan man)
90p – Tristan Lifeboat in open ocean,
passing beyond Big Point,
encounters very heavy seas
£1.20 – The iron barque West Riding
Notes: the lifeboat was spotted by the West
Riding, but was then lost from view. To this day
a mystery, the disaster is the worst, in human
terms, in island history048 150th anniversary of the first
publication of Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, six values and
a miniature sheet
Issue date: December 1, 2015; Design: Victor
Ambrus; Printer: BDT, offset, in four se-tenant
pairs; Perforations: 14 x 14
50p – White Rabbit consults
his pocket watch
50p – Alice comes upon a blue caterpillar,
smoking ahookah, sitting
atop a mushroom
60p – Alice finds that the baby she is given
to hold by the Duchess is
turning into a pig
60p – Alice encounters the Cheshire Cat
70p – The Mad Tea Party, March Hare,
Hatter and Dormouse
in conversation
70p – Queen with baby
Miniature sheet: contains
50p; 50p; 60p; 60p; 70p; 70p as sheet stamps,
arranged in a pair and a block of four designsBorder depicts Reverend Edwin Dodgson, who
was minister and schoolteacher on Tristan,
1880 to 1884, and again 1886-1889 (he was
moved to return to minister to the islanders on
news of the Lifeboat Disaster of 1885)TUNISIA
(previously listed in October 2014 issue)049 Organic Farming in Tunisia, second
issue, four values and a miniature sheet
Issue date: May 12, 2012;
Design: Héla Ben Cheikh, Yosr Jamoussi
(250m melons) or Skander Gader (1350m
honey); Printer: Post Printer, Tunis, offset;
Perforations: 13.25 x 13.25
250m – Strawberries (fruits and flowers)
250m – Melons (plants and flowers)
600m – Purple and green grapes,
for raisins
1350m – Honey: bee on honeycomb,
bee and flower, stick twirling
honey from pot
Miniature sheet – contains 250m; 250m;
600m; 1350m as sheet stamp designs050 The Tunisian National Army, one value
Issue date: June 24, 2012;
Design: Neila Dridi; Printer: Post Printer, Tunis,
offset; Perforations 12.9 x 12.9
700m – Medal and carnations
Notes: inscribed L’Armée Protectrice de la
Révolution de la Dignité051 Marine Fish, four values
Issue date: August 3, 2012; Design: Skander
Gader; Printer: Post Printer, Tunis, offset;
Perforations: 13.25 x 13.25
250m – Marble, Lithognatus mormyrus
250m – Sargo, or White Sea Bream,
Diplodus sargus
600m – Sardine, Sardina pilchardus
1100m – ‘Goldline Bream or Salema, Sarpa
salpa (can cause hallucinations
when eaten)052 Arab Post Day, one value
Issue date: August 3, 2012;
Design: APU Secretariat; Printer: Post Printer,
Tunis, offset; Perforations: 13 x 13
600m – Map of Arab lands, African Postal
Union emblem, dove as carrier053 25th Congress of the Universal Postal
Union, Doha, Qatar, one value
Issue date: September 24, 2012; Design:
Skander Gader; Printer: Post Printer, Tunis,
offset; Perforations: 13.25 x 13.25
1000m – Arrow around globe, and motif from
the UPU Monument in BernNew stamps
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