Lot 227
4 printed essays of the Caritas issue of 1937, submitted to Alexander Koenig 10S, 15S, 25S and 50S. The design of the printed essays of 1937 is nearly identical to the final pencil drawings AK-10A thru AK10-D. The only major difference can be found in the outer line of the left value tablet of the 15S, which is only partially broken in pencil drawing AK-10B, but completely broken in the printed essay. This partially broken line was probably made completely broken during the preparation of the cliché of the essay. This progressively broken line shows that the printed essays of 1937 were produced from the final pencil drawings AK-10A thru AK-10D. This error was corrected on the 15S postage stamp of 1937, which shows a closed left value tablet. The four printed essays here were submitted to Alexander Koenig and can be distinguished from other non-submitted printed essays by the specifics of their line perforation and separation, for example the long tooth at the bottom of the 25S printed essay. The teeth of the four printed essays in the Alexander-Koenig Album are specific to each essay and are also shown in Eesti Filatelist (No.30, 1984, p.16); the essays were described there as "Endgültige Entwürfe". The four printed essays were assigned in H/O (1986, pp.152-153) the catalog sub-numbers G:2, with the descriptions "Essay, final design/Endgültige Vorlage". The ends of the EESTI POST ribbon on the 15S and 25S printed essays of 1937 are not yet filled with horizontal lines, in contrast to the 15S and 25S postage stamps. The printed essays of 1937 are very rare.
