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This all started in about 2003 when I was collecting modern art on stamps and set up a rival page of nudes on stamps to compare the hit rates. The free counter I used has long since given up and I don't recall ever reaching a conclusion on the relative hits

The stamps were not actively sought, but I bought and displayed any that happened to arrive in a Bexley Box. An earlier (but not the original) version of the pages is still here.

The site has been indirectly honoured in video with this piece on YouTube: most of the stamps used have been taken from these pages. An acknowledgement would have been nice.

In November 2013, I came across a book on the subject by Frank Putnam Deane, published in 1966 by the American Topical Association. I have the 2nd edition and have used it to take a more organised approach.

The book is nearly 50 years old and reflects the mood of the time, as seen in its key definition, "For the purpose of compiling this checklist, a 'nude' has been defined as a male or female figure wearing less than conventional attire. For example, a male swimmer (or boxer) wearing trunks has not been classified as a nude, while a male wearing nothing but a loin cloth has been included. A partially clad female figure such as 'Winged Victory' (Scott GB #274) has been included, likewise a female figure wearing a transparent gown, such as Von Kaulbach's Genius appearing on the 1920 Bavaria issue (Scott Bavaria #251-254) has also been included."
In addition to querying the extent and context of nudity required to justify inclusion, as seen from the cover, the booklet also includes naked children and babies and this has not stood the test of time.
The booklet notes that, "There are some 1800 stamps depicting nudes in its design issued by 220 countries. Of these some 1400 are complete nudes, 340 are semi-nudes and 60 are partial nudes."

I tend to avoid religious images and poorly, mass-produced "stamps" from sources such as Equatorial Guinea. Some of these will be found on the Rejects page.

In the 2014 redesign, the plan is:

• Allocate one page per decade.
• Start with the stamps from my original page (they were organised in date order).
• Add the full listing from Deane's book, resorted from country- to country-within-date- order.
• In order to retain the ability to look through a country's full history, the stamps are organised by country within each decade and I intend to add links across the decades.
• The stamps already held will be rescanned to allow the same image standards as used on the First Issues pages, i.e. scan at 300, display at half size, but upload full-size. Large images such as miniature sheets and full envelopes are upladed and shown at half-size. Images are sometimes marked o to denote that they meet the new standard.
• Work through Deane's list (which runs from 1840 to the mid-1960s) and categorise as follows:

• For stamps after the 1960s, I will have to rely on my old method of gradual accumulation, although I might take more active steps with internet and catalogue searches. I did email the person running the ATA Fine Art study group mentioned in Deane's book, but did not receive a reply [significant progress through ATA since this original post].
• More on data sources here.

When rewriting this page in April 2014, I added three stamp images, quickly picking three striking recent arrivals and it is interesting to note that they are all Eastern European - Poland 1912, Hungary 1974, Czechoslovakia 1947.

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