Auction #363

Caritas issue of 1936, 10s., pencil drawing by Axel Roosman, 41x51mm, on perforated cardboard. Caritas heart with 3 flames. Experimental partially asymmetric design, with the coat of arms tilted to the right. In an earlier experimental asymmetric design, AK-3A, the coat of arms and all other design elements are tilted to the left. The asymmetric CARITAS ribbon is a near mirror image of the EESTI POST ribbon on the 25S postage stamp of 1937....

Caritas issues of 1936-1937, 25s., pencil drawing by Axel Roosman, 40x51mm, on perforated cardboard. Arms of Rakvere. Caritas heart with 3 flames. X-shaped crosses at the sides of CARITAS and EESTI POST, similar to those in AK-1C, AK-3B and AK-4D. In the design sequence this pencil drawing AK-4C precedes the water color design AK-8C. The pencil drawing AK-4C has the value inscriptions "25" and no issue year indicated, while the water color...

Caritas issue of 1936, 10s., pencil drawing by Axel Roosman, 41,5x52,5mm, on perforated cardboard. Arms of Viljandimaa. Caritas heart with 3 flames. Blossoms and leaves around the shield, as an alternative to oak leaves used on the 15S postage stamp of 1937. Reindorff, in his designs for 1939-1940, similarly uses blossoms and leaves as ornaments. The mesh of lines in the blossoms in Roosman's AK-5A is similar to the mesh in the blossoms in...

Caritas issues of 1936 and 1937, 25s., pencil drawing by Axel Roosman, 41x51mm, on perforated cardboard. Old Russian-era coat of arms of Fellin (Viljandi). Caritas heart with 3 flames. Without the inscription "Eesti Post". The Ühisabi charity had no prior experience in the design of postage stamps, but was officially authorized by President Paets to design the Caritas postage stamps. Perhaps this pencil drawing AK-5C was the first postage...

4 printed essays of the Caritas issue of 1936, submitted to Alexander Koenig. 10S, 15S, 25S and 50S. The Caritas heart of the 25S essay is white and has an extra surrounding line, in contrast to the 25S postage stamp. The horizontally elongated "+" sign is similar to AK-1A, AK-2C, AK-5B, AK-5C and AK-7B. The four printed essays here were submitted to Alexander Koenig and can be distinguished from other non-submitted printed essays by the...

Caritas issue of 1936, 10s., water color design by Axel Roosman, 42x52,5mm, on perforated cardboard. Arms of Valga. Caritas heart with 2 small flames. In the design sequence this water color design AK-7B is based upon the pencil drawing AK-1D, which has the value "50" instead of "10" and which does not yet have the inscription "SNT.". Four different colors were used in the design. Oak leaves around the coat of arms as in the 15S postage stamp...

Caritas issue of 1937, 10s., water color design by Axel Roosman, 44x54mm, on perforated cardboard. Arms of Paide. Caritas heart with 1 flame. The value tablets with their protruding white lines, the shape of the "10" and the shield pointed at the bottom are similar on the 50S postage stamp of 1937.
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Caritas issue of 1936, 15s., water color design by Axel Roosman, 41,5x52,5mm, on perforated cardboard. Arms of Pärnu. Solidly brown Caritas heart with 3 flames. Possibly the beginning by Roosman of designs with value tablets. In the design sequence this water color design AK-8B is based upon the pencil drawing AK-3B, which has no value tablets and no "SNT.". Design error: The sleeve in the arms of Pärnu is usually in red color, but was...

Caritas issue of 1937, 15s., water color design by Axel Roosman, 41x51,5mm, on perforated cardboard. Arms of Rakvere. Caritas heart with 3 flames. The water stain is already pictured in Eesti Filatelist No.30 (1984), p.8. In the design sequence this water color design AK-8C is based upon the pencil drawing AK-4C. In this water color design AK-8C the value inscriptions were changed from "25" to "15", the issue year "1937" was added, EESTI POST...

Caritas issue of 1936, 50s., water color design by Axel Roosman, 42x52mm, on perforated cardboard. Arms of Tallinn. Caritas heart with 3 flames. Correction marks in pencil: "POST" at the right of "EESTI", to place EESTI POST onto a single line, and "19" and "36" above the value tablets, to indicate the issue year. No ribbons. 3 different colors were used in the design.
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Caritas issue of 1937, 50s., water color design by Axel Roosman, 42,5x54mm, on perforated cardboard. Arms of Viljandi. Caritas heart with 1 flame. Ornamental lines as in water color design AK-9A, which were not used for the more simplified design of the 50S postage stamp of 1937. Coat of arms similar to the 50S postage stamp of 1937, with 5 dots inside the coat of arms touching the outer circle.
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Caritas issue of 1937, 15s., final pencil drawing by Axel Roosman, 43x56mm, on perforated cardboard. Arms of Rakvere. Caritas heart with 1 flame. The outer line of the left value tablet is partially broken. In the 15S printed essay of 1937 this outer line is completely broken, showing that the printed essays of 1937 were produced from the 4 final pencil drawings AK-10A thru AK-10D. In the final pencil drawing, and also in the subsequent 15S...