1941 Health

1941 Health

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		Cat.	Mint Unhinged	Mint Hinged	Fine Used
1d	1941 Overprint on Beachball - Dark Green	71a	$4.50	$3.60	$4.50
2d	1941 Overprint on Beachball - Brown	71b	$4.50	$3.60	$4.50

	Set of 2	71c	$8.55	$6.85	$8.55

	First Day Cover - 4 October 1941	71d			$54.00
	… Two Stamps : 1d (71a), 2d (71b)

War time conditions made it imperative that stocks of paper be conserved and as sales of the 1940 Health stamps had been around 60 percent of the 1939 Health stamps the usual practice of destroying unsold stamps once the issue was withdrawn was considered wasteful. Instead the remaining stamps plus a small supplementary printing were overprinted 1941 - just so that the 1941 issue could be distinguished from the 1940 issue. There are slight differences in the intensity of the coloured inks used between the two printings with the stamps printed in 1941 having a deeper colour.

Bibliography

The Postage Stamps of New Zealand Volume II

Edited by R. J. G. Collins FRPSNZ and C. W. Watts FRPSNZ

Published 1950 by The Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand Incorporated

Pages 156 - 157, 171

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