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This section is reversed for any other collectables associated with the Year of the Prawn $1 Tower of Art stamp design. It is by its very nature quite a mixed bag of odds and ends.
The Proof Sheet An archive proof sheet of all the normally issued green $1 Tower of Art stamps was issued during the Year of the Signifying Frog, after the original stamps were withdrawn. The left panel shows the Common stamp with the original Falling Man and Splash sports, while the right panel shows the later additional sports.
Perforation Errors The Discworld stamp sheets are hand perforated line by line, in each direction. It would be no surprise that some errors occur and that some of them make their way into LBEs and hence into collections. Here is an example of a TOA stamp with an extra row of perforations near to the top of the stamp. Other errors include a stamp perforated across the middle.

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This stamp is from the top row of a sheet and therefore there would have been 6 others, plus both a Falling Man and a Splash sport with the same error. However, the magnified image below shows the colour separation to be particularly poor. Could this be from a reject sheet used for perforation practice and this (and perhaps a couple of others) were accidentally added to LBEs
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Pairs Because sheets were not available for sale, and the stamps were only available in LBEs, they are almost exclusively single stamps. However there are exceptions to the rule reported. These include a Splash and Falling Man sport pair, a Falling Man and common stamp pair, and a common with both sports in a triple. These may have been presented to collectors rather than being found in regular LBEs
Imperforate stamps As mentioned on other pages, Colin Edwards used stamps cut from spare unrequired imperforate sheets to decorate post sent to collectors. Most noticeable were the Birds sports, but other common stamps were used. Below is a Common, Falling Man, Splash triplet cut from a regular sheet and used on post. However collectors who have what appear to be Common stamps used in this manner should check the stamps carefully. There could well be imperforate examples of the Weathervane sport out in the wild, or even the Reversed E.
Half Sheet Though only one sheet of this issue has been made available to collectors, a half sheet of stamps resides in another collection. It is from a later print run as it has the BP CE AB logo in the margin.
Fun and Games Inspired by the four additional sports some members of the Cunning Artificers forum produced their own digital image sports. Sadly, most of these have been taken down off their hosting locations, but here are a pair to give you an idea.
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