Malaria Eradication - Prepared, disapproved and unissued, 1962
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Three values were prepared for release in 1962 or 1963 (after the program ended). The vignettes were prepared by a designer that worked for Harrison & Sons security printers in London. The Bhutanese disagreed strongly with the results. It pictured Buddha in conjunction with a program to kill mosquitos. Picturing Buddha was itself religously questionable, and the combination of the two factors made issue of this set impossible.
The proofs are very rare, and almost never on offer. George Alevizos, a stamp dealer in Santa Monica, California, offered these through auctions in the 1970s and 1980s - that is the last time these have been publicly offered, to my knowledge. A copy of a letter from the archivist at Harrison and Sons expressing surprise that these leaked into the marketplace, is among the documents available elsewhere in the Postal History area..
The proofs are very rare, and almost never on offer. George Alevizos, a stamp dealer in Santa Monica, California, offered these through auctions in the 1970s and 1980s - that is the last time these have been publicly offered, to my knowledge. A copy of a letter from the archivist at Harrison and Sons expressing surprise that these leaked into the marketplace, is among the documents available elsewhere in the Postal History area..