1941 Health
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Cat. |
Mint Unhinged |
Mint Hinged |
Fine Used |
1d |
1941 Overprint on Beachball - Dark Green |
71a |
$4.50 |
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$3.60 |
|
$4.50 |
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2d |
1941 Overprint on Beachball - Brown |
71b |
$4.50 |
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$3.60 |
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$4.50 |
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Set of 2 |
71c |
$8.55 |
|
$6.85 |
|
$8.55 |
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First Day Cover - 4 October 1941 |
71d |
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$54.00 |
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… 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issue was withdrawn was considered wasteful.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
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