VERY CLEVER DESIGN HERE - shows fish God Maui's fish hook ship in the form of the map of Tonga turned upside down with a large fish hook as the mast.
In 1993 over 2,000 school children throughout the Tongan Islands entered a stamp design competition. The six winning entries would become stamps. The artwork item shown in the scan here was one of the six winning entries. The original artwork drawing is shown at the left and details of the child artist are at the right. The stamp was issued and examples of the stamp and proofs are for sale in separate listings on delcampe. For sale here is the original artwork item, which is on thick card and is 28 cm wide and 20 cm high. (size of A4 sheet of paper landscape view) - this is a UNIQUE ARTWORK ITEM which was kept in the printers archives after the stamps were printed.
Not too many countries have released the actual artwork done for issued stamps, so this is a good opportunity for an exhibitor to be able to display an actual piece of original artwork for an issued stamp in their exhibit. This item is of course unique. It is not a copy or a print, it is the one and only original.
Lovely archival type item which hardly, if ever, becomes available to the public, as most items like this are kept by the artist or by the postal administration. Scarce item for exhibit page.
POSTAGE - 3 euros to anywhere in world. Registration is extra.
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postage and firm packing is US$2.80 to anywhere in the
world. More than one small item (such as stamps) will
go together in the same envelope for the one lot of postage.
Where the items to be posted are larger (such as covers or large
stamp blocks or artwork), then the cost of postage is shown in the
item description. But US$2.80 is the minimum cost to
anywhere in the world except for Australia where the cost is
US$1.50.
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many unregistered letters have somehow gotten lost or stolen when
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TONGA - ARTWORK 1993 Child Art - details below - Maui's fish hook ship (Tonga map upside down!) on sale on Delcampe (ending date: Wed 12th Nov 2008)
TONGA - ARTWORK 1993 Child Art - details below - Maui's fish hook ship (Tonga map upside down!) is on sale in the category Stamps > Topics > Transport > Ships. Please verify if this item is sold through an auction or as a fixed price sale. Buyer of TONGA - ARTWORK 1993 Child Art - details below - Maui's fish hook ship (Tonga map upside down!), see also the ratings the seller got from other members.