1967 - 1968 Decimal Pictorials - Part Five

 Definitive Tour.

        1967 - 1968  Decimal Pictorials - Part One.
                    An overview of this definitive issue with First Day Covers.
                    Various extra issues that appeared over the next two years.
                    The information on the designs/subjects of each stamp in more detail.
                    Flaws and errors in the lower values.
         1967 - 1968  Decimal Pictorials - Part Five.
                    Flaws and errors in the higher values.

         This is the second page of flaws found in the Decimal Pictorials. Again we see a variety of errors from colour and perferation shifts to paper creasing and large strange blobs of ink. I personally like the example you see below of a major green shift in the 15c Tiki.




8c - New Zealand Flag.
The Rangitoto flaw.
This flaw developed and changed as printing continued until it was found and removed. At first it was small as can be seen on the left-hand block below. In the right-hand block it continued to grow until it took on the a shape very similar to the profile of Rangitoto Island giving the flaw its famous name.

          

Now as this flaw continued to develop a gap opened up in its centre.
By the time we get to the final example below the flaw looks very much like an island volcano eruption which is rather interesting considering Rangitoto is actually an extent volcano.   


1967 Pictorials 8c Red Colour Shift.
It is interesting to find this colour shift on a used stamp.


10c - Timber Industry - Log.
It seems like one of the main problems with the 10c value was colour shifts both in the brown and the green. Below is a small collection of some of these.
        
Brown side shift to the right.                                         Green side shift to the right.


A mint pair, with a major 3mm colour shift of the brown.
It is so large that the brown now runs right into the perf.



15c - Tiki (Hetiki) on Orange Background.


               
It seem that one of the problems experienced during printing of the 15c value was colour shifts in the green. Above are two smaller shifts leaving what looks like a shadow down the right side of the tiki (hetiki) with some blurring over the rest of the design.

 15c Tiki (Hetiki) with a major green shift down so the green Tiki (hetiki) now
touches Zea of New Zealand.


20c - Taniwha. (Maori Rock Drawing)

A black colour shift leaves the 2 of the value 
touching the edge of the design,


25c - Dairy Industry - Butter Making.

A joined pair showing miss placed perforations leaving the design shifted to the top-left on each stamp.

A paper crease during printing has been flattened out leaving this white crease running down through the right-hand stamp.


30c - Tongariro National Park / Chateau Hotel.

A blue Dr Blade flaw running down through this pair.

A black colour shift leaves the words 'New Zealand' partly off the design.

The wording New Zealand is streaky, with colour runs down over the blue sky.

50c - Sutherland Falls.

1967 Pictorial 50c Waterfall, showing dark green ink blob at left centre.

$1 - Tasman Glacier.

1967 $1 Blue ink marks.

The dealer offering these stamps for sale said these were ink marks. I believe this is not strictly correct. What I think is that solvent has fallen on to the printing plate, mixing with the ink to form the blob shape on the printing image.

1967 $1 Large ink mark by value.

Next we have two examples of flawed stamps that have made it through the postal system.

The first example shows a grossly miss placed perforation where top of stamp cut off.

The second example also shows a grossly miss centred perforation 
leaving the design in the bottom-right corner.

$2 - Pohutu Geyser - Pink.

              
1967 $2.00 Pink Geyser 5mm wide Dr Blade flaw across each stamp. It appears that both stamps mostly came from the same row, possibly the same sheet. Yes that are different stamps.

c - Brown Trout.
1968 7½c Brown Trout major colour shift of back, leaving a lovely doubled fish.


15c - Tiki on Green Background.
Now this looks an interesting item. The green is very light giving the stamp a washed out effect. If this had been caused by fading then the block would have been effected too. What is unusual about this particular stamp is that it has been used for postage.

                         
Two vertical strips of the 1968 15c green & red Tiki showing a green Dr Blade flaw running vertically down the right side of the stamps. It is possible that these block are the upper and lower corners of the same sheet.

10c - Timber Industry.

1968 10c Timber with brown log colour shift downwards.


28c - Fox Glacier.

1968 28c Fox Glacier with blurred print image caused by blue colour shift.




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