Merchant Farthing

Stamp Description
Maroon on Cream Field Lozenge Shield Quartered Canton Ship Rigged Cream on Maroon Bow Dexter Canton Sinister Coq Maroon on Cream Facing Sinister Base Dexter Tete do Boeuf Ringed Maroon on Cream Base Sinister Bourse Tasselled Cream on Maroon surmounted by Owl Volant on an Ankh with SPONSORED BY THE CANDLEWICK MAKERS AND OILMEN above bordered by ¼d in Octagonal Frame Hatched Dexter and Patrician Profile Maroon in Octagonal Frame Hatched Chief POSTAGE REVENUE Maroon on Cream bisected by Oil Lamp Base ANKH-MORPORK ONE FARTHING Maroon on Cream.

Notes:   Issued in the Year of the Prawn   [ Album Page ]
Sponsored by the Candlewick Makers and Oil Men.
It should be noted that the layout of the shield is a mirror of the illustration in the Discworld Companion. This error may have arisen due to the description using heraldic terminology for positioning.

Credits:
Colin Edwards, Alan Bately, Bernard Pearson
Galleries:       Issue Year: Prawn           Type: Merchants' Guild

Images and Documents:
Merchants’ Guild shield as illustrated in the Discworld Companion, draw by Stephen Briggs.