1945 Health
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Cat. |
Mint Unhinged |
Mint Hinged |
Fine Used |
1d |
Peter Pan Statue Kensington Gardens - Green / Brown |
76a |
$0.55 |
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$0.45 |
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$0.45 |
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2d |
Peter Pan Statue Kensington Gardens - Red / Brown |
76b |
$0.55 |
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$0.45 |
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$0.45 |
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Set of 2 |
76c |
$1.05 |
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$0.85 |
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$0.85 |
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First Day Cover - 1 October 1945 |
76d |
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$5.40 |
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… Two Stamps : 1d (76a), 2d (76b) |
The 1945 stamps feature the statue of Peter Pan in
Kensington Gardens, London. Peter Pan was chosen for its connotations of
immortal youth. Designed and issued just a few months after the end of the
Second World War, the stamps reflect a romantic image far removed from the
reality of heavily bombed London. The stamps were designed by James Berry,
himself an expatriate Londoner, who sent regular food parcels from New
Zealand to friends and family throughout the war.
Kensington Gardens
were laid out around 1728-1738 as the private gardens of Kensington Palace.
Long after they had been opened to the public, the King asked his Prime
Minister the possible cost of enclosing them again - the answer was "a
Crown". Kensington Gardens is now most famous as the setting of J.M.
Barrie's Peter Pan books and stage play. In 1912 Barrie paid Sir George
Frampton, a renowned sculptor and one of the original eight members of the
British School of Sculpture to create the bronze statue.
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 160 - 161, 172, 256
The Postage Stamps of New Zealand Volume IV
Edited by R. J. G. Collins FRPSNZ and C.W. Watts FRPSNZ
Published 1960 by The Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand Incorporated
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