TRISTAN DA CUNHA 1962 POTATO STAMPS ESSAYS REPRINT SHEETLET
Potato Stamps sheetlet printed by Cluett Burns, Southampton featuring reprints of the local use 'potato' stamps essays proposed by Allan Crawford. Fresh and fine.
Note: the local use 'potato' stamps essays, so-called because islanders used potatoes as currency, formed the basis of a petition in 1946 to the Postmaster General in the UK for Tristan Da Cunha to issue stamps – the request was denied and it wasn't until 1952 that overprinted definitives of St Helena became Tristan Da Cunha's first official postage stamps
