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Today's post is about some stamps I received last year from a "stamp friend" in New Zealand... I sent him some stamps from India and in exchange he sent me some beautiful and very famous New Zealand stamps... I already showed the "Peace" series in other previous post and now it is a good time to show the others... it will be the first of many , I hope, short posts  as I told you before..it is part of the new design of the blog , resulting from demands of my day to day life...

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AS we all know , the different Philatelies  of our countries are consequence of their strong or weak points... some of them are known for the beautiful Engravings,other from the Fantastic illustrations, others have famous pictorial series ,others portrait series, etc... New Zealand have for a long time something called the "Health stamps" and they are among the most famous New Zealand stamps...

The illustrations and design of the stamps are work of one of the most important Stamp Designers from New Zealand... James Berry started his work with stamps in 1933  and became rapidly one the great creators in New Zealand's  Philately...his design is very fluent and versatile and these qualities brought him some well deserved fame in our Hobby's small world...

1946 "Health Stamps" (2) [Des (James Berry)][Recess (Waterlow and sons Limited, London)] Sc(B28,B29)

Here is another work of James Berry, this time with focus on the Centennial of the Otago Settlement... The versatility of Berry's work became more evident in this series,where the design of buildings is side by side with landscapes ,ships,animals,etc.. we must have in mind that there are Artists specialized in landscapes or drawing horses,or painting Naval Battles,but sometimes in the Stamp Designing it is necessary to build pictures with many of these components working together to build a coherent  idea,easily understood by the final consumer ... Us. that's why I always fought  to build my other blog... just to bring , not only people like Berry , with an extensive work in Stamp Designing,but also the work of others who distinguish themselves in other branches of Art ,but who by necessity , curiosity or to answer a professional request, were one day also part of the Enormous Group of  creators of our Hobby...

1948 "Centennial of Otago Settlement" (4) [Des (James Berry)][Recess (Bradbury Wilkinson)] Sc(269,...,272)

Another beautiful series focused on the development and history of New Zealand...this time, another region of the Country is highlighted and this time Berry had help from other two Artists... one of them was also (together with Berry) very important in Stamp Designing in this particular time Frame.. I'm talking of Leonard Cornwall Mitchell , that started to design stamps in 1931... it is without any doubts another great Artist, perhaps one of my favorites...the other Artist from this trio was James Alexander Johnstone and the 3p  was the only stamp he ever designed ... Artist with a well established Art Life , he is a very good example of one of those Artist who one day contributed to our hobby,but never with the Excellency and Importance of many others who almost devoted their life's to these small pieces of Art... 

1950 "Centennial of Canterbury" (5) [Des (L.C. Mitchell 2d)(James Alexander Johnstone 3p)(James Berry / others)][[Recess (Bradbury Wilkinson)] Sc(274,...,278)

As You see, this is a considerably smaller post and the future will be like this , with some exceptions when we will be focusing in  large series with more complicated subjects to talk about...

Ok!that's it !! 

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