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An unperforated sheet, printed on gummed paper shows the options that Colin Edwards presented for the colours and sports for the fourth $1 Tower of Art stamp. In terms of colour, there was bright blue or purple for the stamp frame, and for the image a choice of a pale burgundy, crimson, or brown. The tablets holding the $1 and HV bust use a mix of these colours. A sheet like this helps to show how different colours and schemes work.
This sheet has the finished stamp (top row, seventh along) and both issued sports (top row far right for mirrored, and bottom row fourth along for the magic water). I have not found any unissued sports proposals on this sheet - unfortunately. The sports that are there tell us that the birds are a separate layer of the artwork to that of the sky, and that the likelihood is that the water ripples and the reflection are a single layer. None of this explains why the weathervane does not get mirrored. Surely it can’t be a layer on its own? Or perhaps it is after the the weathervane sport of 2005.
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