The original design of the Sower by Oscar Roty gave birth in 1903 to the first series of stamps called "Sower line" whose chief file corresponding to the price of the letter was 15 cents a simple green. Stamp
mythical since remained in the annals as being the first type have been issued a sower, April 2, 1903.
change in postal rates has brought back a few years later at 10 cents the cost of postage of the letter simple and to mark the occasion as they say, the sower had to lose (to please better) its bottom line as well as its sun, to find their feet firmly on the ground, and ground with Sower was finally issued April 13, 1906:
The aesthetics of this stamp does not give satisfaction, despite two draws, and slight alterations whose goal was to better reflect the silhouette of our beloved Sower.
It will not long remain on sale. The minister was not happy!
We then tried to satisfy all costs, even going so far as to change the sun room is tell you! ...
He was offered a brand new design, very little success elsewhere, and fortunately remained at the trial, which included the sun not behind but ahead of the sower, so that the shadows are observed. This was not the case on the sower line, and had already spilled much ink! Not to mention the fact that sows against the wind, which is already an aberration for any farmer!
To enable the minister to compare this with the sun in front Sower was printed on sheets mixed, combined with that which rested on a floor (two superimposed panels of 50 stamps of each kind), which has left us very rare and quite spectacular vertical pairs:
Note that these famous sheets were printed from April 7, that is only six days before the show! We must believe that the controversy then beat in full, and that decisions were taken in an emergency just days before the new rate ... Which is never good, either.
It was then that the ground has decided to delete. This gave birth
(fortunately for us philatelists) with very few trials, strangely called Sower with soil without soil :
The result was this time quite convincing, but one thing still vexed policy makers of time: beyond the stud! In
ogled a little closer to our chest Sower, some are indeed vicious imagined she sowed shirtless (though absurd idea), or that her left breast had escaped from her bosom, proudly pointing straight ahead!
Even with dirty minds, it takes much imagination to find any resemblance to a nipple! They should not see every day on the beach at the time!
It exists even in the archives, a letter officially offended by the Minister, requesting deletion of this "stub" for our disgraceful national effigy! ...
Few collectors know, even if 'They spend their days looking at the scrutiny of thousands of stamps to the type Sower, for a century!
We imagine the poor writer, surely sought urgently, trying to remove that part of the punch, just to satisfy the whims ministry!
This etching, thin, has also been retouched in emergency, or two types of stamps again: the first offered for sale seemed featureless, and the sale had to be stopped in a panic that day. The latter, retouched and made a little later, however, are much better!
Sower thin! ... Not that he has, in addition to that imposed a regime, but so named because of the stamp entries are made of the finest characters goods on the following programs. Emissions from 1907 which were in turn, be referred to as "fat Sower" (or cameo Sower, what we have already seen). All this
history (and still counting ...) allows us to appreciate, however, gave himself so badly that the Post Office to create a stamp! The success and longevity of our Sower probably come in part from the attention that he was wearing.
The current administration would do well to inspire, and reflect on the examples, sometimes comic, as his predecessors have left him ...
