Towers on stamps

This page is dedicated to those stamps which have, by design or happenstance, included a clacks tower in the design.

The 50p Cabbage Fields stamp from the Year of the Complicated Monkey had a clacks tower on the horizon as the sport, echoing the tower of the Sto Plains featured at the end of the story of Going Postal.

The Lawyers Guild building has a prominent clacks tower on it, so there are two issues that can feature here. The $5 stamp from the Year of the Three Roses was the first, but to complete your thematic collection you would need to obtain the common and the sport of both the original and reprinted versions; and possibly the Consulate cover. It may come as no surprise that the little man on the roof was not the only sport considered for this stamp. Little men were trialed at various positions including one climbing the clacks tower. It is shown here in an early version of the stamp, before the colours were finalised. The blow-up is not the best of images!

        

The 50p and $1 pair from the Year of the Frog Ascendant also feature the building and its tower, and this time the tower has been used for a sport, with a hanging man.

      

Another stamp featured the a clacks tower and a sport based upon it. This was the $1 Civic from the Year of the Second Inception. Central to the stamp and part of the Anhk-Morpork cityscape is a clacks tower, showing one flag. The sport has four flags flying.

      

Another building with a clacks tower attached is the City Watch House, and this was the subject of the 75p stamp of the Merchants Guild Places of Interest

Next, and clutching at straws to be all inclusive, you just spot a clacks tower on three of the $5 Ankh-Morpork triangles: the original Brass Bridge, the purple Ankh-Morpork bridge, and more obviously the River Gate triangle.

The Hogswatch stamps from the Year of the Sneezing Panda were available as a miniature sheet. The three stamps are parts of a larger piece of artwork by David Wyatt showing a seasonal cityscape. In the non-stamp gutter between the first and second stamps an old style clacks tower can be clearly seen. Do not forget the GCTS offering of an imperforate sheet!