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Ascension Island

1934 Pictorial Definitives

 
 
Complete set Perforated SPECIMEN

GEORGETOWN

THE PIER

LONG BEACH
ASCENSION ISLAND - Common Design for 1d, 2d, 8d and 2/6

THREE SISTERS

WIDEAWAKE FAIR

GREEN MOUNTAIN
An unusual feature of this set is that the 1/- value does not include the head of KGV
Bradbury, Wilkinson's Tendered Designs

Although De La Rue Printed the Issue, other Security Printers submitted their designs for consideration

Spink in their 9 July 2013 Sale offered 153 A to Z lots of Contemporary Photographs from the Printer's Record Books.
Lot 5 offered fourteen Ascension Essays as Illustrated below - The dates are the entry dates into the archive record books.

 
Unadopted Photographic Essays

GEORGETOWN
GOVERNORS LODGE
ENGLISH BAY
THE PIER
LONG BEACH
THREE SISTERS

ASCENSION ISLAND

THE CLUB

ASCENSION ISLAND
WIDEAWAKE FAIR
GREEN MOUNTAIN
The designs of the GOVERNORS LODGE, ENGLISH BAY and THE CLUB did not feature on the issued stamps
1934 ½d Die Proofs for the GEORGETOWN Design
1934 ½d Die Proofs Three Impressions of the Vignette from light to deep blue
1934 ½d Imperforate Die Proof Three Impressions of the completed design in Black & blue marked Appd. 20/2/34
1934
½d Definitive
block of four
on Cover
to England
½d Combined Cylinder and Imprint block of twelve
ASCENSION ISLAND flanked by Two Pylons
A Common Design used for the 1d, 2d, 8d and 2/6
Rejected Die Proof of Vignette for 1d, 2d, 8d & 2/6
Latitude 8° 55'S Instead of 7° 55'S
1½d The Pier - Die Proofs of Vignette and Completed Design
Note Area of horizontal etched lines behind King's head
3d Long Beach Die Proof and Blocks of four
Complete Die Proofs of the 5d Value

5d Depicting the
Three Sisters
Used Cylinder Block

On Cover to
Switzerland
Ascension Island - Common Design for four Values

Die Proof of 8d Frame
Rejected Die Proof of
Vignette for
1d, 2d, 8d & 2/6

Latitude
8° 55'S Instead of 7° 55'S

 
Rejected combined - Die Proof dated 9/2/34
Approved Die - Initialled and Dated 20/2/34
1934 1/- Pictorial Die Proofs - Three Impressions of the Vignette Light, Medium & Dark Black
1/- Wideawake Fair - A rare Die Proofs of the Frame in Issued Colour


A Complete Die Proof in Black and Blue
2/6 Value
In an Unmounted Mint block of Four

In a Used Imprint Strip of Four
1934 KGV
5/- Pictorial
Die Proof

Used
Cylinder & Imprint
Blocks of four
Complete set Mint
Teardrops Variety Ex R4/5 Occurs on 1d, 2d, 8d and 2/6

SG 24a

SG 27a
Complete set Used
Complete Set on Two Selfridge Envelopes
1934 Definitives various Values on Registered Covers to England & U.S.A.

1924 - 33 Badge Issue

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