CRITICISM OF TOUR STAMPS
REPLY BY DESIGNER (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, September 17. Regret that critics of the Royal tour stamps had not waited until they had seen the stamps was expressed today by the designer, Mr L. C. Mitchell. “It is very difficult to make a pleasing half-tone block of line treatment in engraving, and when the result has been enlarged several times above stamp size, faults are very much exaggerated,” he said. The actual colours and size made a difference, and there was a complete absence of the shadowy lines that had appeared in all the press photographs of the stamps, said Mr Mitchell. Replying to the criticism by the director of the Auckland Art Gallery (Mr Eric Westbrook) that the portraits were not very lifelike, a Post and Telegraph Department spokesman said today that the photographs used in the designs were specially chosen by Her Majesty for the purpose.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27148, 18 September 1953, Page 10
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