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New Zealand Tourist and Publicity Department :New Zealand poster stamps entirely designed and produced in the Dominion for the New Zealand Government Tourist & Publicity Department. Use these beautiful stamps and advertise your own country overseas! Entirely produced in New Zealand by Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd [ca 1937]
- Date
- 1930 - 1939
- By
- New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie Ltd
- Reference
- Eph-A-TOURISM-NZ-1930s-02
- Description
Sticker sheet includes ten stickers, images also used in posters by the Tourist Department in the early 1930s::
Blue Baths Rotorua (artist Leonard Cornwall Mitchell)
Wonderland New Zealand (artist probably Carl Laugesen)
Chateau Tongariro (artist possibly Edgar Lovell-Smith)
Marlborough Sounds (artist Leonard Cornwall Mitchell)
Sportsman's paradise (artist Harry Rountree)
Dart Valley (Artist Leonard Cornwall Mitchell)
Mt Cook (Artist probably Leonard Cornwall Mitchell)
Mitre Peak (artist Leonard Cornwall Mitchell)
Mt Egmont (Artist Leonard Cornwall Mitchell)
Maori chief
Two copies held.
Date is probably around 1937. The Evening post, 8 April 1937, page 8, announces that a million poster stamps are to be made. At that time it was envisaged that "about twelve designs" would be used. However the folder described here has only ten designs in it.
See also the article in "New Zealand free lance", 8 September 1937, page 27;this reproduces the marlin image and the Marlborough Sounds image.
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Folder, 172 x 250 mm, containing sheets of 10 stickers, each sticker 65 x 44 mm.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Scanned from original
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Ephemera, Photolithographs, Stickers, Folder, 172 x 250 mm, containing sheets of 10 stickers, each sticker 65 x 44 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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