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.
PAYMENT
1. Cash sent through the mail
2. Payment through PayPal
NOTE
Cheques NOT accepted.
Credit card - ONLY through PayPal.
Conditions of sale:
Delivery
Method: Shipping after payment Shipping costs: Paid by the buyer Places: Seller's country, Europe, North America, Central America, South America, Asia, Africa, Oceania
Payment
Cash, Paypal, MoneyBookers
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Shipping and handling:
Unless otherwise advised in the item description, airmail 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.
IMPORTANT NOTE - those wishing to pay by PayPal must add 4% to the total.
IMPORTANT NOTE - for buyers in China, India, Russia and Romania who pay by PayPal, REGISTRATION is now compulsory. Too many unregistered letters have somehow gotten lost or stolen when sent to these high risk countries and paypal forces me to refund payment to the buyers even though I have posted their letters. If you pay by moneybookers then registration is not compulsory.
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TONGA - ARTWORK 1993 Child Art - early navigator - raft - details below on sale on Delcampe (ending date: Thu 13th Nov 2008)
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