they are an improvement over the abstract colored lines they're presumably replacing.
I will grant you that.
I know, Antonio, an awful low bar
I was thinking Lady Liberty on these reminded me of someone. Then I realized, it's the look I get from the wife when I come home late or otherwise screw up.
Good grief, who approves these things anyway? The depiction of her on the $5.00 1922 issue would have been prefect.
I take it those are 'facsimile' lines of engraving to form the image.
Ugh.
Czeslaw Slania is rolling over in his grave right now.
-Paul
I feel they got the nose right but nothing else....
....well, maybe the eyebrows.
The stamp is a complete miss. Looks nothing like Lady Freedom. This reminds me of the stautue of Martin Luther King Jr. on the mall in DC.
Low bidder?
"If you like chubby cheeks, a broad nose and a frown,"
If you like chubby cheeks, a broad nose and a frown, you will love these.
The statue they are supposedly based on is the Statue of Freedom on the top of the Capitol Building in Washington DC shown below.
I could go on but . . . nuff said.
re: New Statue of Freedom - US High-Value Stamps
they are an improvement over the abstract colored lines they're presumably replacing.
re: New Statue of Freedom - US High-Value Stamps
I will grant you that.
re: New Statue of Freedom - US High-Value Stamps
I know, Antonio, an awful low bar
re: New Statue of Freedom - US High-Value Stamps
I was thinking Lady Liberty on these reminded me of someone. Then I realized, it's the look I get from the wife when I come home late or otherwise screw up.
Good grief, who approves these things anyway? The depiction of her on the $5.00 1922 issue would have been prefect.
re: New Statue of Freedom - US High-Value Stamps
I take it those are 'facsimile' lines of engraving to form the image.
Ugh.
Czeslaw Slania is rolling over in his grave right now.
-Paul
re: New Statue of Freedom - US High-Value Stamps
I feel they got the nose right but nothing else....
....well, maybe the eyebrows.
re: New Statue of Freedom - US High-Value Stamps
The stamp is a complete miss. Looks nothing like Lady Freedom. This reminds me of the stautue of Martin Luther King Jr. on the mall in DC.
re: New Statue of Freedom - US High-Value Stamps
Low bidder?
re: New Statue of Freedom - US High-Value Stamps
"If you like chubby cheeks, a broad nose and a frown,"