Unadopted Malawi Wildlife Designs by Peter Scott

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Nyala by Peter Scott.



Sable antelope by Peter Scott.

I have just started corresponding with Will Coles, who is an Australian artist.

He is the grandson of English numismatic artist, Norman Sillman.


Mr Sillman was responsible for the Welsh dragon pound design of 1995 and many overseas designs.


Today, Will Coles emailed me scans of these sketches by the late British naturalist, Sir Peter Scott.

They are in the possession of Mr Sillman, who was born in 1921.


They are the prototype sketches for the Malawi 1978 collector 10 and 150 kwachas.

Here is a page for Peter Scott on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Scott


Will Coles' Wikipedia page on his grandfather:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Sillman

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These are great discoveries. These designs deserve to be preserved. Thanks!

Peter

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Malawi, 250 kwacha, 1978.

Here, as issued, is the official 1978 Malawi 250 kwacha.

The reverse, depicting nyala antelopes, was designed by Norman Sillman.

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The late naturalist and artist Sir Peter Scott was a great believer in the Loch Ness monster as a real flesh and blood animal, so much so that he coined a new scientific Latin name for it, "Nessiteras rhombopteryx", meaning something like "the inhabitant of Ness with the diamond-shaped fins". He was very pleased with the name he had invented, until a journalist pointed out that it was an anagram of "Monster hoax by Sir Peter S". 

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