Portal:Philately/Nominate/Stamp of the month archive

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This page for making nominations for the Stamp of the month section of the Philately Portal please add it to the list below.

Stamp of the month are typically high-quality articles about a specific postage stamp or series of postage stamps, to showcase the content Wikipedia has on this topic.

[edit] What to do

The Stamp of the month section is set up to randomly place a new stamp, from the selection of numbered sub-pages into the section every so often. If the random content is not working and no-one else has done it, be bold and go ahead and update it with one of the suggestions below. (If there aren't any, pick one yourself and try to use an image if possible!).

To add a new Stamp of the month click here and select one of the unused numbered redlink section sub-pages. Start editing the selected sub-page by clicking on the redlink and adding your text which should be a short introduction to the chosen stamp and, wherever possible, add an appropriately licensed stamp image. To use the existing format please copy it from one of the other numbered section sub-pages and substitute your data.

[edit] Suggestions

[edit] Chalon head

Chalon heads, were a series of postage stamps issued by many British colonies, inspired by a portrait of Queen Victoria. The head came from a painting by Alfred Edward Chalon (1870-1860), drawn for the first public appearance of Victoria as Queen on the occasion of her speech at the House of Lords in July 1837. Chalon's work was intended as a gift from Victoria to her mother.

Issued from the 1850's until 1912, in Queensland, in chronological order, they were released in the Province of Canada in 1851, Nova Scotia in 1853, Tasmania and New Zealand in 1855, The Bahamas and Natal in 1859, Grenada, New Brunswick and Queensland in 1860, and in 1870 in Prince Edward Island.

The effigy, mainly on small sized stamps, was reproduced inside an oval that has two main forms; the oval is either large enough to see the Queen's necklace, or too small so that only the upper part of the neck is visible, excluding the necklace, however on the New Zealand stamps, the circle has a larger diameter so the upper part of the State Robes are also visible.