One Eyed Lucy

hello all

I know it has been a long times since my last post

I have been sorting more and more and came across an interesting block of 4 stamps.

it is very easy to notice that the upper right lucy has one eye missing.

I have looked in my scotts and have seen not mention of this variation
is it common??

Lucy Stone had a mole above her right upper lip. That seems to have been removed by the artist.

Terry

Yes terry "artistic licence " was used with that stamp . It is a definitive stamp. If you look up the difference between provisional, commemorative , and definitive stamps you will understand why I take issue with the comments on the 1933 National Recovery Act stamp .

Best John

Edit: the "one eye Lucy" is likely a scuff from the canceling machine.

I know the differences, and what artistic licence is. I am criticising neither the act or the woman. I feel the photograph does Lucy Stone better service than an artist's dishonest retouch for the stamp. But this photograph which appears the basis for the stamp image, and a fairer comparison, is also missing the mole, so perhaps it had been removed surgically or by other treatment in which case there was no artistic licence. Artistic skill is something else and this photograph is superior to the artistic rendering for the stamp.

Terry

I understand what your saying and I agree . I defer to you experience with photography . What I am saying is that the 1933 NRA stamp is a commemorative to commemorate the National Recovery Act. To say that FDR is pictured in that stamp is an "opinion" not a fact "historic" or otherwise. It is similar as saying that Uncle Sam was a real man born on the 4th of July or Rosie the Rivitor worked at the "Groton ship yards". To promote that factoid and site a page and source number from a reference is erroneous . The logic is muddled . The definitive of Lucy stone is issued about Lucy stone (artistic licence or not). The cute anecdotes about the 1933 NRA stamp is that an anecdote .

This was the argument I tried to avoid with the sarcastic "hats off and 1921" comment . wt1 posted a Slone's article with an opposite anecdote. The four people pictured in that stamp are nondescript ... that was the intent of the design ... to "represent four common people" in society united under the National Recovery Act .

Yes, I see your point. I was only commenting on the the Lucy Stone stamp as I felt the artist had not quite done the lady justice. I also agree that the missing eye was rubbed off and not an error.

Terry

Terry , Thanks for letting me vent.

Best John

Absolutely necessary in today's world. I have also been thinking of another stamp, subject of one of my recent posts, and have come to the conclusion that 'bad art' is not always ugly or demeaning. Here is Queen Victoria on the Mauritius stamps. Clearly copied from the 1d Black and by no means an accurate depiction of Queen Victoria. But oh so beautiful and desirable.

Terry

There was one British Stamp that I thought was done extraordinary well . It was the 80th birthday of the Queen Mum . I felt that depiction captured the true essence of the Queen mum.

One of the few modern GB stamps I like. I have it along with this one of her as a young woman. Natural and of her time.

Terry

Yes , well done .

And this is my favourite Queen on a modern stamp. One of the best 'moderns' for me.

Terry

This is perhaps Nefertiti ? Egypt is not a strong area of history for me.

Yes. It is the International Museum Week issue, 1956. I have this one in mint condition as above, and as a pre franked first day CDS on a blank cover, as below. I am finding it difficult though to find postally used samples.

Terry