COLOUR OF STAMPS.
THE REASON WHY. It is doubtful whether ever bother© has been an occasion on which a New Zealander might dispatch three letters, postmarked with the same date, bearing three different penny stamps. The superseded Georgian issue, still in circulation from stocks bought prior to May 1, the new pictorial penny (kiwi;, and the broad jubilee stamp, issued on May 6, are all negotiable to-day. All three are red—indeed, it is hard to remember when New Zealand did not have a red “penny.” The 1923 map issue, the “Britannia” (Georgian and Edwardian varieties:, the Victory set. the Victorian pictorials, even the recent health stamps—all the penny issues were red Fiscal, official, and the early “full-face Queens” excepted, has there ever been a penny New Zealand stamp of any colour other than red The reason is that an international agreement demands that penny stamps be red and half penne stamps green.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12950, 15 May 1935, Page 3
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152COLOUR OF STAMPS. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12950, 15 May 1935, Page 3
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