This could have been a wonderful issue given the source material they had to work with. Great sculpted profiles of QEII ruined by dreadful use of fonts, size of image in frame, orientation and colour. You may have guessed that I’m not impressed.
I got quite excited when I read that NZ Post were doing a Machin for their “Queen Elizabeth II - 60th Anniversary of the Coronation” issue.
Until I saw it.
Crap fonts.
Crap colour.
Crap.
And she’s looking the wrong way
1st Class Doctors issued 26-03-2013
these are my favourite Doctors, the two I grew up with and the two that rekindled my interest in all things Whovian
2nd Class Dalek issued 26-03-2013
Year of the Snake
13 June 1964, Finland
General Assembly of World Medical Association
designer: O. Vepsäläinen
engraver: B. Ekholm
the greatest postage stamp ever - the 1929 PUC pound
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26.03.2013
John Norris Wood’s unused Cat Flea design for the Insects issue of 1985.
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Barnett Freedman’s design for a proposed photogravure 7d or 8d value, November 1935
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the stamp on which the Jane Crisp painting I posted earlier is based.
NEW ZEALAND - 1/2d Fantail, 1935
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Classic Album Covers
Issued January 7 2010
Designed by Studio Dempsey
Size 34mm (h) x 32mm (v)
Printed by De La Rue Security Print
Print Process Gravure
The Clash - London Calling
Classic Album Covers
Issued January 7 2010
Designed by Studio Dempsey
Size 34mm (h) x 32mm (v)
Printed by De La Rue Security Print
Print Process Gravure
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Classic Album Covers
Issued January 7 2010
Designed by Studio Dempsey
Size 34mm (h) x 32mm (v)
Printed by De La Rue Security Print
Print Process Gravure
