Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand Inc.
Item of Interest
1895 Pictorial Design Competition Essays
Artist A, page 1.
All designs on thin card, and watercolour unless noted.
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A01
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A02
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A03
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1/2d blue
18x23mm
Cabbage tree
(cordyline australis)
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1d green
18x23mm
Toi-toi (native grass)
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2d slate-purple
18x23mm
Nikau palm
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A04
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A05
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A06
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3d lake-brown
18x23mm
Flax
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4d carmine
18x23mm
Native pigeon(?), bullrushes
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5d deep brown
18x23mm
Tui (Parson bird)
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A07
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A08
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6d yellow
18x23mm
Kiwi
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8d deep claret
18x23mm
Huia
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A09
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A10
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A11
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1/- black
18x23mm
White Heron (Kotuku)
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2/- red-brown
24x36mm
Maori ancestor figure, flanked by spear and club
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1/- black
18x23mm
Tree fern (punga)
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A12
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A13
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2/- yellowish-green
35x22.5mm
Mountain range flanked by toi-toi, tree fern, flax and nikau palm (clockwise
from top left)
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5/- carmine-lake
35x22.5mm
Mt. Ngarahoe(?)
flanked by native birds
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A14
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5/- brown-purple
35x23.5mm
Waka (Maori canoe) and Mt Egmont
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Many of the above design were also submitted drawn to a larger scale.
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