During the Year of the Happy Goose three Clacks Stamps appeared, all only available in LBEs. They state both Post Paid, and Clacks Post. And they show the letters G and T for Grand Trunk, over a silhouette of of the Ankh-Morpork coat of arms. The three stamps are for Clacks Post from Lancre, Pseudopolis, and Koom Valley. The Grand Trunk originally ran from Ankh-Morpork to Genua, thus taking in Koom Valley and Lancre. Later it would have extended to Pseudopolis. There may be an argument that these are regional issues, or stamps from Forn Parts, but with the Ankh-Morpork coat of arms featured and there being no actual permanent community in Koom Valley, the intended use of these was therefore for the delivery of clacks messages from these places to addresses in Ankh-Morpork, and the additional payment was for that final part of that journey. They were all of a $1 denomination.

All three stamps have the same frame used for the design, and feature different styles of Clacks towers centrally, with the background and the top corners showing a characteristic of the message’s origin – mountain forest for Lancre, more mountains for Koom Valley, and a street scene (almost Parisian) for Pseudopolis.

The Lancre stamp is of a purplish brown colouring and was found in the May Day LBE. The sport of this showed the tower with the clacks boards open, rather than closed. No sheets were made available for purchase, though prize tickets for 8 of these were included in the LBEs. A blue version of this stamp was the free gift in the Stanley Howler Stamp Journal #22; it had no sport

The Pseudopolis stamp soon followed, appearing in the Going Postal LBE. Its appearance caused some mirth due to another of those Cock-Ups. The name of the town was misspelt PSUEDOPOLIS instead of PSEUDOPOLIS. One wag asked who ‘Sue’ was. The culprit explained himself in typical fashion ’Now I have a confession to make. It was like this ......... it was hot and I needed an apple drink, so I got a jug of ’apple juice’ sent down from Uncle Toms (they do this for me, bless them). Well I was finishing off a certain stamp before getting it to the printers and - well spelling has not ever been my strong suit - and I didn’t get it checked by a grown up - and er, I might have just been a bit confused because of a slight over indulgence of the apple juice - and .................. Well - er - There have been occasions when miss spellings have appeared on round world stamp, so I am not alone but .................... All the grown ups here have now said that I am not being allowed to sign off any stamps without their written approval and I am confined to barracks on Friday’s meeting of the South Somerset Mountain Rescue Team training night in Uncle Tom’s next Friday evening. I suppose we could do a re-print and put it as a special little gift in the next LBE.”

These stamps were in shades of green and a sport was also present, with the rather hi-tech looking clacks flashing part of a message. They were printed in sheets of 21 including the sport (not 30 like the Lancre Clacks stamp sheets), giving that a ration of 1:20 The replacement, with the spelling correction, was released in the On The Ball LBE. It was a sort of blueish-violet colour, and no sport was issued.

 

The third stamp, for Koom Valley, was a deep rusty red, and appeared in the Sixth Anniversary LBE. Again they were printed in sheets of 21 stamps with one sport. In this case, it was a dwarf axe embedded in the tower.