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Provenance:
Paper Type: Rives Lightweight, 135 gm/m-2 Paper Size: 10" x 13" Image Size: 4" x %" Edition Size: 50 |
Perhaps eventually for the following countries:
Cameroon Caroline Islands Kiautschou East Africa Marshall Islands Marianas New Guinea Samoa Togo |
I have been making block prints for about twelve years, and of course, have been refining my techniques over that length of time. At the beginning I carved designs in a single block for a single color, only twice printing two colors from two blocks. Earlier this year I decided to concentrate on printing with multiple blocks. This design, even if monochromatic, is resolved with three or four blocks: 1) frame, 2) ship, 3) country and denomination, 4) perforations.
The design is from a series of stamps produced in Germany for their colonies in Africa, the Far East, and Micronesia. The ship is the Hohenzollern, the private yacht for the Kaiser of Germany, Emperor Wilhelm II, put into service in 1893. The Kaiser traveled the world on the Hohenzollern accompanied by a heavily armed cruiser or two. Intended to emphasize the effort of the German Empire to challenge Britain's supremacy of the seas, it was a featured design of stamps for German East Africa, New Guinea, Southwest Africa, the Marianas Islands, Samoa, Cameroon, Kiautschou, Marshall Islands, and Togo. At the end of WWI the colonies were stripped from Germany and awarded to the victors of the conflict.
Southwest Africa was administered by South Africa for many decades after the first World War, effectively becoming a fifth province. There were many insurrections to challenge British authority, as there had been when the area was under German control. Only as late as1990 did the nation become an independent country, Namibia.
The design is from a series of stamps produced in Germany for their colonies in Africa, the Far East, and Micronesia. The ship is the Hohenzollern, the private yacht for the Kaiser of Germany, Emperor Wilhelm II, put into service in 1893. The Kaiser traveled the world on the Hohenzollern accompanied by a heavily armed cruiser or two. Intended to emphasize the effort of the German Empire to challenge Britain's supremacy of the seas, it was a featured design of stamps for German East Africa, New Guinea, Southwest Africa, the Marianas Islands, Samoa, Cameroon, Kiautschou, Marshall Islands, and Togo. At the end of WWI the colonies were stripped from Germany and awarded to the victors of the conflict.
Southwest Africa was administered by South Africa for many decades after the first World War, effectively becoming a fifth province. There were many insurrections to challenge British authority, as there had been when the area was under German control. Only as late as1990 did the nation become an independent country, Namibia.