1960 - 1966 Pictorials Part Four.

 Definitive Tour.

Back to Elizabeth II Definitives.                                       Forward to 1967 Decimal Pictorials.     

          1960 - 1966 Pictorials Part One.

                    A summary and overview of this issue with the stamps arranged issued order.

          1960 - 1966 Pictorials Part Two.
                    This second part shows each of the stamps again but now arranged by their value.
          1960 - 1966 Pictorials Part Three.                   

                    Flaws and errors of the 1960 definitive - low values.
          1960 - 1966 Pictorials Part Four.
                    Flaws and errors of the 1960 definitive - high values.

          1960 -1966 Pictorials Part Five.

                    Postal history items.

Flaws and Errors of the 1960 Definitives - High Values.

         Flaws and errors were very common in this issue and in our drop box library we have around 114 images. Some are double ups and others very poor quality so I'm unsure how many will eventually make it into the blog.

          Images of errors and flaws come from a variety of sources, often of different resolutions, so image size becomes a problem. Colour quality and accuracy is also a problem from some image sources too. We also tended to enlarge these stamps for greater clarity and detail of the errors. This often makes for an untidy looking page but we hope this will be overlooked in the interest of viewing some amazing stamps.

         This post will only show errors/flaws in the High values, 9d - New Zealand Flag up to the £1 - Pohutu Geyser. The lower values are on a separate post. 

9d - New Zealand Flag.

(Normal Example) 

 

Left-hand Pair - Red is 90% omitted on left stamp.

Right-hand Stamp - Red completely omitted.

1960 Pictorials 9d Flag, selvage single stamp with red shifted to right, the 4 stars are now white.

 1960 Pictorials 9d Flag, block of 6. There is an error across the on top 3 stamps

caused by cleaning fluid on the blue ink. To have a flaw like this on a six stamp block
must be considered a special find.

  

 

Now here is an interesting strip with two errors on each stamp. First there is a shift of the red

 to the left and secondly the red is faded towards the left end of the strip.

1/- (1 shilling) Timber Industry - Log.

(Normal Example.

I found this stamp is rather hard identify true errors since even the good example above

looks as if it might be an error because of the scarf cut around the lower edge of the log. 

      

Left-hand Block - There is a major flaw in Sky near the top of the bottom 2 stamps, a clear white line running on angle through each stamp. That black line is not an error, it's a postal cancellation.

Right-hand Block - This block has a similar flaw through the sky of the top two stamps.

  

Left-hand Block - Showing an upward shift of the green, seen best on tops of the trees.

Right-hand Pair - Showing a downward shift in the brown which creates a similar effect except the brown is now very close to the lower edge of the stamps.

1/3 (1shilling 3pence) Fishing - Trout.

(Normal Example)

           

Left-hand Stamp - Red has been completely omitted.

Right-hand Stamp - A major shift of the blue to the right. See how close

the blue is to the edge of the stamp.

                     

Above are two examples of shifts of the brown colour. The left is a minor shift seen best with the white gap on the left side

of the trout. On the right stamps this gap is of course much bigger.



1/6 (1shilling 6pence) Tiki.

(Normal Example)

                                

Left-hand Pair - Doctor Blade Flaw, vertical white line through both stamps.

Middle Pair - Smudge/scuff mark in the lower stamp.

Right-hand Pair - Smudge/scuff mark in the top stamp.

      

Left-hand Pair - Vertical Doctor Blade Flaw through green of the right stamp.

Right-hand Stamp - Vertical green line caused by over inking of green during printing.

          

1/9 (1shilling 9pence) - Aerial Top Dressing Plane - Brown.

1/9 - Aerial Top Dressing Plane - Colour (Issued 1963).

           

Both of these blocks show doubling of the perforations between the top two stamps.

         

Left-hand Stamp - Where has it gone. A major side shift of the red has taken the aeroplane almost right off the stamp.

Right-hand Block of 4 - There is a red mark through the right stamps caused by over inking the red colour.

There is a white flaw in the sky of the right-hand stamp.

2/- (2shillings) - Taniwha.

(Normal Example).

Left-hand Block - Maori Rock Drawing block of 4, with large black colour shift. Note how the stamp value has moved off into the white margin.

Right-hand Pair - Maori Rock Drawing, lines in stomach omitted or very worn. This has been caused the 'Gutless Flaw.'

Maori Rock Drawing strip 3, the last stamp has the brown colour half omitted, plus the middle stamp has a dark brown ink join.

Maori Rock Drawing value block of 4.
The sheet value has been redrawn plus background buff colour shifted to right.

2/6 (2shillings & 6pence) - Dairy Industry - Butter.

(Normal Example).

 

Left-hand Stamp - Another double error stamp where the yellow butter shifted down and the top of design on brown partially omitted, appears as worn printing with part of design omitted.

Right-hand Pair - Selvage pair with very clear double perfs over 1cm along top of each stamp.

3/- (3shillings) - Tongariro National Park and Chateau - Colour.

(Normal Example).

 

National Park with light olive shade shifted 1mm to left. This creates a white panel at right, with olive colour in left frame.

          

Two examples of  blue shift, with a smaller on the left and larger shift on the right.

Chateau Tongariro block of 6 with selvage and a pre printing paper crease running

through three of the stamps. 

10/- (10shillings) Tasman Glacier.

(Normal Example).

 

Left-hand Pair - Tasman Glacier corner selvage with 3 separate Dr Blade flaws. 2 light on lower stamp plus dark Dr Blade over both stamps. 

Right-hand Stamp - Single stamp with entire blue colour badly dragged.

Some of the images in this post were used with permission from the illustrated catalogue of StampsNZ

You can visit their web site and On-line Catalogue at, http://stampsnz.com/