Lot no. 223

Caritas issue of 1937, 10s., final pencil drawing by Axel Roosman, 43x55mm, on perforated cardboard. Arms of Paide. Caritas heart with 1 flame. The EESTI POST ribbon has horizontal stripes at the left and right, like the 10S postage stamp of 1937. The conspicuously tilted placement on the album page shows that the designs by Roosman were submitted as individual perforate cardboards and only lateron affixed to a page in the Alexander-Koenig Album. This is also confirmed by the hand-written comment "In den Abbum" (=in the album) on the comment sheet attached to the back of the presentation carton AK-19. The water color designs by Reindorff, on the other hand, were submitted already carefully and equidistantly pasted onto the presentation carton.