UNADOPTED PROJECTS gallery

In this database, you can see many images (often with their enlarged detail) of Unadopted Proofs/Essays, rejected designs (Maquettes) and Proofs of Unissued stamps, compared with the relative issued stamp (if it exist). If you have some interesting Unadopted Proofs or Essays or Maquettes, please DO NOT HESITATE TO SEND ME THE IMAGES, to add to this database.

Various types of UNADOPTED PROJECTS exist:

1. the subject has been modified during its preparation; there are two possibilities:
• the first program is stopped and no stamp is issued;
• the first program is continued but the subject has been modified or has been committed to another artist; this new subject can be much different from the first one or only differ for some details, like one small inscription.
  
2. the face value has been modified during its preparation;
3. the postal use has been modified during its preparation: for example, a stamp that initially was appointed for airmail and after is issued like ordinary mail.
   
4. the print method has been modified during its preparation;
5. at the end, projects whose stamps have not been issued; only in this case we find a definitive stamp (unissued) and all the complete sequence, starting from the Maquette until the  Deluxe Proofs and the stamp.