Lawyers’ Guild One Penny

Stamp Description
Blue-Green on Champagne Field Scales of Justice bearing Bags of Money on Bary Field in Curved Shield Surmounting Field of LUCRE SERMAT Repeated Bordered by Ionic Columns Dexter and Sinister Chief ANKH-MORPORK Bordered by Rosette Canton and Canton Sinister Base ONE PENNY bordered by 1 Dexter and P Sinister in Octagonal Frame Champagne on Blue Green.

Notes:   Issued in the Year of the Reversed Ptarmigan   [ Album Page ]
Designed by Colin Edwards from an illustration by Alan Batley.

Influences:
The layout of the One Penny Lawyer’s stamp has a close resemblence to the ’A Tribute to Genius, 1812-1912’, testimonial stamp devised by the Charles Dickens Centenary Testimonial Committee.
Galleries:       Issue Year: Reversed Ptarmigan           Type: Minor guilds and Leagues

CGTS Rate: was:      12

Images and Documents:
A Tribute to Genius stamp Engraved and printed by Raphael Tuck & Sons, the Strand Magazine issued these cinderella labels at the cost of 1d in England and 2c in the United States.
Shakespeare Stamp There are a number of portraits which are supposed to depict the famous playwright and they have been used on various occasions for stamp designs. From 1899 to 1926, a series of Shakespeare labels in nine different colours were sold for one shilling each in support of the church in Stratford upon Avon. These labels show what is believed to be a fair portrait of Shakespeare.