I recently received part IV of international postage stamp album, leafing through the catalog, I notice that between illustration and the stamp of SC# 1135 a big difference of the position of the girl head, on illustration the head is down and on the stamp is up, is this a variety or what ?
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My unqualified guess is: "neither", and that they used the camera-ready artwork released with the original announcement about the stamp, and that the design got tweaked before production.
Nice catch.
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"I collect stamps today precisely the way I collected stamps when I was ten years old."
One of my first stamp albums was a Jefferson album I got in 1962. I now recall seeing that very same illustration in the space for the Dental stamp and puzzling about it at the time.
I think album publishers used the initial announced design and failed to update. Why I don't know.
"Come to think of it, the girl in the stamp looks like The Gerber Baby."
Ikey got me thinking that I have a cover from sometime in the 1990s showing the Gerber baby, which I have scanned below. Gerber not only sold baby food, they put their name on all things "baby" related, including baby life insurance. They even produced their own actual "stamps" as shown in the second scan, a "Bulk Rate U.S. Postage PAID GERBER LIFE" stamp.
"... I think album publishers used the initial announced design and failed to update. Why I don't know ..."
The original announcement probably came with camera-ready artwork.
Running out, months or years later, to shoot the stamp to update the album ... well, someone would need to notice, and someone else would need to care enough to spend money.
I am also gonna guess that most stamps look exactly like the camera-ready artwork that accompanied the original press release, so this is not something you'd have someone assigned to check for, year in & year out, for one-hundred-odd countries.
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/s/ ikeyPikey
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