Ugly new UNPA stamps, engraved by Slania

From Fasziniation, a magazine in German, issued by the United Nations PA, I
have learned that on Feb. 4, 2005 this PA will issue a set of 3 stamps and 3
miniature sheets. It is actually 3 times the same stamp, non perforated,
with borders in different colors. The stamp is dedicated to the 60th
anniversary of the UN.

It is so ugly, at least on the reproductions in the magazine, that I won't
propose you this time a scan (you'll surely have the occasion to see it on
the site of one of our participants .

I've just tried to find an image of it on the specialized UNPA Europe site:
http://www.unpa.unvienna.org/
but no one of the colored words represented a link.

This hasn't hindered this page for being visited a bit less then 1,400,000
times since 1/1/99 (something that I could see in Firefox, but not in IE).

Interestingly enough, the article in Fasziniation speaks also about the
stamps that Slania engraved for his own pleasure. You can take a look at
some of them on:

http://www.values.ch/sna-site/art/slania/slania.htm

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Victor Manta

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"Victor Manta" wrote in message
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From Fasziniation, a magazine in German, issued by the United Nations PA,
I have learned that on Feb. 4, 2005 this PA will issue a set of 3 stamps
and 3 miniature sheets. It is actually 3 times the same stamp, non
perforated, with borders in different colors. The stamp is dedicated to
the 60th anniversary of the UN.

It is so ugly, at least on the reproductions in the magazine, that I won't
propose you this time a scan (you'll surely have the occasion to see it on
the site of one of our participants .

snip --
Victor Manta


I couldn't resist and have scanned two of three stamps:
http://www.values.ch/Temp/uno-60years.jpg

Don't blame the scan, it isn't bad at all.

Correction: the stamps are described as perforated 12, but this isn't
visible on the presented images. The stamps on the sheets (exactly the same
design) aren't perforated, as stated in the magazine.

--
Victor Manta

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Machin did a better drawing at age 5 or 6. See previous thread by Mette.

Bill Sharpe

"Victor Manta" wrote in message
...
"Victor Manta" wrote in message
...
From Fasziniation, a magazine in German, issued by the United Nations
PA,
I have learned that on Feb. 4, 2005 this PA will issue a set of 3
stamps
and 3 miniature sheets. It is actually 3 times the same stamp, non
perforated, with borders in different colors. The stamp is dedicated
to
the 60th anniversary of the UN.

It is so ugly, at least on the reproductions in the magazine, that I
won't
propose you this time a scan (you'll surely have the occasion to see
it on
the site of one of our participants .

snip --
Victor Manta


I couldn't resist and have scanned two of three stamps:
http://www.values.ch/Temp/uno-60years.jpg

Don't blame the scan, it isn't bad at all.

Correction: the stamps are described as perforated 12, but this isn't
visible on the presented images. The stamps on the sheets (exactly the
same
design) aren't perforated, as stated in the magazine.

--
Victor Manta

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I found links on the UNPA site, but they say the designs are preliminary:

http://www.un.org/Depts/UNPA/coming/index.html

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"Victor Manta" wrote in message
...
"Victor Manta" wrote in message
...
From Fasziniation, a magazine in German, issued by the United
Nations PA,
I have learned that on Feb. 4, 2005 this PA will issue a set of 3
stamps
and 3 miniature sheets. It is actually 3 times the same stamp, non
perforated, with borders in different colors. The stamp is
dedicated to
the 60th anniversary of the UN.

It is so ugly, at least on the reproductions in the magazine, that
I won't
propose you this time a scan (you'll surely have the occasion to
see it on
the site of one of our participants .

snip --
Victor Manta


I couldn't resist and have scanned two of three stamps:
http://www.values.ch/Temp/uno-60years.jpg

Don't blame the scan, it isn't bad at all.

Correction: the stamps are described as perforated 12, but this
isn't
visible on the presented images. The stamps on the sheets (exactly
the same
design) aren't perforated, as stated in the magazine.

Who produced that horse manure, and was he/she actually paid for it??

Franz

"Bill Sharpe" wrote in message
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Machin did a better drawing at age 5 or 6. See previous thread by
Mette.

So did I

Franz

"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
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"Victor Manta" wrote in message
...
"Victor Manta" wrote in message
...
From Fasziniation, a magazine in German, issued by the United
Nations PA,
I have learned that on Feb. 4, 2005 this PA will issue a set of 3
stamps
and 3 miniature sheets. It is actually 3 times the same stamp, non
perforated, with borders in different colors. The stamp is
dedicated to
the 60th anniversary of the UN.

It is so ugly, at least on the reproductions in the magazine, that
I won't
propose you this time a scan (you'll surely have the occasion to
see it on
the site of one of our participants .

snip --
Victor Manta

I couldn't resist and have scanned two of three stamps:
http://www.values.ch/Temp/uno-60years.jpg
(V.M.)

Who produced that horse manure, and was he/she actually paid for it??

Franz

No name of a designer or something like this is given, only the name of the
engraver, Mr. Slania. He was surely paid for his work.

On one of the pages from the UNPA magazine there is presented something that
looks like a photograph, and that shows bigger what is shown smaller on the
stamp. It's a huge meeting room.

Nowhere it is written that the design of these definitives is preliminary
(which would be really good news). I think that this definitive it
definitive, because the whole magazine is foreseen for getting orders.

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Victor Manta

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