The Djelibeybi 1 Talon

       Another stamp that was originally intended as a generic issue was the Djelibeybi 1 Talon. An test print sheet shows the Tsort town artwork housed in the same framework as the Djelibebi stamp. For reasons discussed on the Tsort page this shared design may have persisted well after the ideas for an Offler shared design were abandoned. It is contemporary with a version of the Djelibeybi stamp. The stamps are unlikely to have been considered in this shade of brown.

 

     More likely that these prints were for internal Teemer and Spools use, in final refinements to the art and design work. For example the lower right box with the value in Djelibeybian has the ‘text’ changed on the released stamp. In fact the value used on the Tsort original has been used! And the 1t left value is just a tad less bold on the final design, balancing its changed equivalent on the right. Following this stage, the choice of colours, sheet layout and sports came next. These were finalixed using the sheet below.

     Firstly the sheet layout and decoration is virtually as per the released stamp sheet. Though that is decided, there are five different colourways represented here, and six sports including the chosen released sport. The two-humpty camel seems favourite because it appear in tandem with other sports on individual stamps (shown in the colours used on the sheet).

 
the five colour schemes including the issued colours
 

 
no people on the plain                                       nothing on the plain                                  two-humped camel
 
two palm trees                                           star atop the pyramid                                       taller pyramid

     The two-humped camel could also be considered favourite because that sport alone appears with the original artwork for the stamp. Perhaps the other five alternatives were to be used in combination or were just for illustrative purposes. What that artwork also reveals is the open secret that Om also makes an appearance on the stamp. He can just be made out sitting on a rock immediately below the camel’s hind legs. He is not so obvious on some stamps from certain stamp sheet positions, but he is there on all stamps.