Wonderful Tuvalu Fish Find On Ebay

I just purchased these colour progressive proofs of the 1981 45c Fish definitive of Tuvalu (Scott 108A, SG 117B). It is my all-time favourite Tuvalu stamp and a great find for me . I will be drooling over the images until the stamps arrive. There are 5 different states of the brown border within the final twin panes printed, and many positional varieties. I will post some later.

Here is an image of the actual stamp.

They are lovely, a great find.

Progressive Proofs always look so attractive.

But often expensive too.

Did you break the bank ?

BeeSee I just looked at my Tuvalu stock..i have Tuvalu scott 96-109 with official overprint..they are not in my realm of collecting..if you can use them I am not hard to deal with..phil

Londonbus1: I got them as a Buy it Now for a great price, I did not have to sell a kidney like LaSwabbie

Philby: I am constantly buying those Tuvalu fish sets, regular and Official, there are so many printings/states/varieties of all values. How much do you want?

Thanks for the email Philby - payment sent and I shall be looking forward to receiving the stamps!

Thank You Bee See ! I will be heading to the post office in the morning !

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Fish and chips!

Swab,

The Tuvalu Official stamps have arrived already, Philby! Thanks very much. I shall be looking forward to sorting/plating them tonight.

Have fun ! its great when we can find a "match" here on SCF !

The catalog numbers for the complete set of Tuvalu Fish Officials is O1-19 for both Scott and Gibbons. However, I understand Gibbons also lists some of the printing varieties as sub-numbers, for the typo and litho overprints, and the fine and coarse border screens. Anyone with a Gibbons catalog who can get me those numbers? Thanks!

If no one comes up with a better result, I can email you 1993
numbers, mostly sub listed as "a" in all groups for the litho.
The fine and coarse screens are mentioned but do not attract a
sub listing letter, hence better to hold out for a newer reference,
If indeed they are listed.

BTW I like to interpret the heraldry of arms, I wonder if you
know the story behind the Tuvalu emblem? and the motto.
I havn't wikied it yet.

(not sure if I'm allowed to post this)

This site might be of interest to you, if you have not seen it before:

http://www.tuvaluislands.com/stamps/st-d1979.htm

Thanks 22crows, but that is my website

Do you guys in Oz have a thing with "2"?

Rod, "Tuvalu mo te Atua" means "Tuvalu and the Almighty" (God).

The building is a Maneapa, which is a traditional village meeting house. The waves and shells below represent the nation's dependence on the sea.

The actual design of the arms was submitted in a local contest in 1977.