Pacer On Stamp
Cardigan Bay, the New Zealand horse which was the first pacer to earn slm in stakes, as he appears on a 10c postage stamp to be issued by the New Zealand Post Office on January 28. The stamp is the first in New Zealand to feature a racehorse. It Is printed in four-colour photogravure in Switzerland. The design is by Mr L. C. Mitchell, of Wellington, who had shown the horse in his natural colours.
against a mushroom background. Cardigan Bay added thousands of United States admirers to his New Zealand following and is now in Britain in quarantine before returning to retirement in his home countryThe Post Office has a special first-day cover which may be ordered at any office and first-day stamp cancellation services are available at all chief post offices and the philatelic bureau, Wellington Chief Post Office.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32166, 9 December 1969, Page 18
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144Pacer On Stamp Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32166, 9 December 1969, Page 18
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