Fifth-design types

The catalogue describes the fifth design as a large white inscription on a coloured ground, without bush or sun, with a larger drawing of St Nicholas’s church and a different ornament in the frame. To my mind it is the most rewarding to collect: on most of the values that used it, different fields carry different combinations of types of several elements of the design.

The types fall into four categories:

1. Spiral types
2. Crossbar types
3. Arch types
4. Frame types

Clicking a type leads to its description and to the corresponding stamp fields. Where each element sits within the design is shown in the diagram below:

For the 15h the treatment is fuller — with the fields listed plate by plate — on the Fifth-design types on the 15h page.