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The design of the Original TOA $1 stamp continued, using different colour schemes and sports, for the next three years of Discworld stamps. Since then, while the framing of the stamp has been redrawn, Alan Batley`s drawing has continued to be used each year for the new definitive issues right up to the Year of the Reciprocating Llama (and perhaps beyond); though there does seem to have been an element of redrawing taken place. There have been new sports, and repeats of the old ones, and some novelty issues, but the iconic Tower of Art remains.
In the Year of the Three Roses there was no Cabbage Fields stamp issued. Its replacement was a 50p Tower of Art in the same design and colour as the original $ TOA, albeit with the height reduced to 90 cm. These were produced in sheets of 28 (two rows of 14 stamps), but there were no sports. Having said that, collectors had to look carefully at their LBE contents, because some Owlswick Jenkins forgeries of this stamp were found to be in circulation. They could be identified by either the selvedge (either blank or hand annotated by Owlswick) or by their higher resolution printing!
The design work for this stamp was resurrected during the Year of the Reversed Ptarmigan, firstly appearing on the stamp commemorating the 500th collection box of the AMPO, and later on the 3p Hogswatch stamp. A postcard from the time also shows a dismembered TOA stamp with some of its parts put together as per the issued stamps. Though showing a different main image this must be one way a design for a stamp can be arrived at; its quicker than computer manipulation of the image! I wonder if the cut-up was for the PO box stamp, or for another uncompleted stamp.
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