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Gentleman Selects: Design Into Print - Working Sketches

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Gentleman on Stamps

Initial concepts

Unity through strength, shown symbolically

Unity Through Strength (large size)

Robert Owen and welfare in cotton mills: first design submitted to the Post Office, incorporating hands

 

Robert Owen stamp: first design (large size)

Development

The pulley and belt theme for the Robert Owen and cotton mill design 

 

Robert Owen stamp: second design (large size)

Robert Owen stamp: third design (large size)

Sheet of issued stamps

Robert Owen, Pioneers of Social Reform, 1976

 

 

Robert Owen stamp: sheet of issued stamps (large size)

Issued stamps


The other three stamps in the series retain the symbolic use of hands.

Thomas Hepburn, Pioneers of Social Reform, 1976

 

Thomas Hepburn stamp (large size)

Elizabeth Fry, Pioneers of Social Reform, 1976

 

Elizabeth Fry stamp (large size)

Lord Shaftesbury, Pioneers of Social Reform, 1976

 

Lord Shaftesbury stamp (large size)