Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand Inc.
Item of Interest

1895 Pictorial Design Competition Essays

Design on thin card (150x138mm), watercolour. The artist has written brief description of the scenes on the reverse.

E12 - E22

The essays are described top-down, left to right. Frame colour listed below, centres all multi-colour.

1d Red-orange 35.5x23mm Huka Falls	2d Light grey-blue 35.5x23mm Mts. Ruapehu & Tongariro	2½d Bright purple 35.5x23mm Mt. Cook
3d Emerald 35.5x23mm Dusky Bay, Fiordland	4d Ochre 35.5x23mm Lake Pukaki	5d Reddish-lilac 35.5x23mm Queen Charlotte Sound
6d Slate-blue 35.5x23mm Shakespeare Head, Mercury Bay	8d Yellow-brown 35.5x23mm Mt. Egmont	1/- Mauve 35.5x23mm Planting of the British Flag (at Akaroa?)
2/- Red-orange 35.5x23mm French Pass		5/- Slate-blue 35.5x23mm Milford Sound, Fiordland

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