1956 Health

1956 Health

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		Cat.	Mint Unhinged	Mint Hinged	Fine Used
1½d	Children Playing Under Apple Tree - Brown (Simplified)	100a	$0.55	$0.45	$0.55
	(i) Purple Sepia Brown	100a1	$0.60	$0.55	$0.65
	(ii) Dark Sepia Brown	100a2	$8.10	$7.20	$8.10
2d	Children Playing Under Apple Tree - Green	100b	$0.55	$0.45	$0.55
3d	Children Playing Under Apple Tree - Red	100c	$0.55	$0.45	$0.55

	Set of 3 individual stamps	100d	$1.55	$1.30	$1.55

	First Day Cover - 24 September 1956	100e			$3.60
	… 1½d (100a), 2d (100b), 3d (100c)

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.

Bibliography

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

Pages 317 - 319, 436

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