Uberwald First

The first general stamp issue from Uberwald was during the Year of the Happy Goose, and it also coincided with the Seventh UK Discworld Convention for which the theme of the stamp continued.

The 10 Bizot stamp features the fifth elephant of legend which is said to have crashed into the Discworld and is the source of the Schmaltzburg fat deposits. The stamps were issued in sheets of 18, the borders of which are very ornate. There is no indication of who printed the stamps. The sport stamp shows the elephant`s trunk curled upwards instead of downwards.
There seems to have been more than one printing of this stamp as it exists with a bright icteric background shade of yellow, and a more muted shade.


The common and the sport


The muted and the bright background colour variation



The same design was used for one of the Convention emberellas. There was a sport with the largest central star coloured red. The other stamp shows a dwarf axe against a background similar to the sheet margin design. No full sheets were available for collectors, but an imperforate sheet held in the British Library collection shows they mirrored the 10 Bz sheets. A second imperf sheet shows that a rather lurid green background was also considered.

            

      

An A4 sized proof sheet with all four fifth elephant stamps (commons and sports) in perforated form was a lucky dip prize in The Convention LBE. There were just 25 to be won. What marks these stamps is the white background as opposite to the bilious yellow of the 10 Bz stamp and the flecked blue of the Convention stamp. In this form they mist be one of the rarest Discworld stamps, though I doubt anybody has split a sheet in order to display the stamps as singles or pairs. Another measure of their uniqueness is that the sports and commons were printed in equal numbers.

    

Just to round this section off there was a pair of Convention covers for collectors, with matching franks.