Series 3 new zealand philatelic bulletin no 29 1963 november

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NEW

ZEALAND

PHILATELIC

POST

OFFICE

BULLETIN

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Inquiries about New Zealand and Island Dependencies Stamps are to be addressed to the Director-General, Postal Division, G.P.O., Wellington, N.Z.

No. 29.

November, 1963.

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Railway Centenary.-

Illustrated here are the two stamps that will be issued on Monday, 25th November to commemorate the centennial or the New Zealand Railways. The stamps have been printed in 1863 CENTENARY OF RAILWAYS 1963 England by Messrs Thomas De La Rue & Co. Ltd., who have used the photogravure process. The subjects are an old and a modern railway engine on the 3d stamp and an express train drawn by one or the latest diesel locomotives against a background or Mt Ruapheu on the 1s.9d stamp. The designs were prepared by the Publicity and Advertising Branch or the Railways New Zealand Star paper with a consistency or 5~¡~ esparto, Department. 25"6 rag and 25~ birch wood has been used. The 3d stamp will have an olive green fiame and will show the early engine in black and green, drawing a brown coloured carriage, and the modern locomotive will be in red. In the 1s.9d denocination the express train will be red and the mountain and sky blue. On the lert is a black panel which shows the value in the centre. The stamps are printed in sheets or 120 with the printer's imprint and plate number 1 1 1 1 shown on the bottom lert-hand selvedge. The sheet value is shown on the top right-hand selvedge. Unless supplies are exhausted earlier the stamps will be on sale until the 29th February, 1964.


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