1956 Health

		Cat.	Mint	Hinged	Used
1½d	Children Playing Under Apple Tree - Purple Sepia Brown	99a	$0.48	$0.36	$0.80
	(i) Dark Sepia Brown	99a1	$12.00	$9.60	$12.00
2d	Children Playing Under Apple Tree - Green	99b	$0.48	$0.36	$0.40
3d	Children Playing Under Apple Tree - Red	99c	$0.48	$0.40	$0.40

After a design competition failed to produce a suitable stamp image for the 1956 Health issue, a photograph from The Auckland Weekly News by J F Louden of his grandchildren Graeme and Peter Wilson playing in an orchard in 1946 was chosen for the stamps. The design was changed to set the scene in a garden.

Two easily distinguished shades of the 1½d stamp exist with the dark sepia brown variety considerably rarer.

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