The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 6, Issue 7 (February 1, 1932.)

Stamp Portraiture

Stamp Portraiture.

All sorts of queer stamps have been produced, and it may be that in stamps there is nothing new under the sun, but the last Newfoundland issue contains some features that, to a mere layman, appear novel. New Zealand has hitherto been content with the King, but the Newfoundland new six cents (dark blue) carries “the first stamp portrait of Princess Elizabeth.” Stamp portraiture would seem to have untapped material in the Royal family, and still more untapped material in Nature. A stamp-issuing authority that seeks to catalogue the fauna and flora of the country might meet with executive difficulties, but Newfoundland, in its new issue, shows a caribou (five cents, violet), a salmon leaping falls, (ten cents, orange), and a baby seal (fifteen cents, ultramarine). Other denominations show a fishing fleet and a sealing fleet. And, of course, there is the Newfoundland Dog.