JERSEY

JERSEY.

Jersey Forteresses.
Plan of Mont Orgueil by Thomas Phillips (1680).
First stamp in a set of 4, issued on 05.02.1980.
Face value: 8 Jersey pence.
Design: T.H.O.S. Phillips.
Printed by Joh. Enschedé Stamps, Haarlem, Netherlands.
Printed: Offset lithography.
Print: 665,647 copies.
Size: 35.2 x 27.3 mm.

Catalogues
- AFA No. 206.
- Michel No. 212.
- Scott No. 222.
- StampWorld No. 206.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 222.
- Unificato No. 206.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 206.

Mont Orgueil (Jèrriais: Mount Pride or Haughty Mount) is a castle in Jersey that overlooks the harbor of Gorey, in the east of the island. The construction of the castle was undertaken following the division of the Duchy of Normandy in 1204. It was first mentioned in 1212. The castle is first called ‘Mont Orgeuil’ in an ordinance issued by Pierre de Brézé, Lord of the Isles during the occupation by the French during the War of the Roses, in 1462. Mont Orgueil has been managed as a museum site since 1929, although during the Second World War German occupation (1940-1945), the occupying forces garrisoned the castle and added modern fortifications camouflaged to blend in with existing structures.

Thomas Phillips (1635-1693) was an military engineer and topographical watercolourist, came to Ireland from England in the winter of 1685 during the reign of James II to survey and report on the principal fortified places, castles, forts, and garrisons and to draw exact designs of their present condition and estimate the cost of any necessary repairs. He had worked in the Channel Islands (1679), making maps and plans of probable landing places and of defences needed.