Not very becoming portraits
Good idea but the aesthetics would make me cringe seeing them in my collection. (Just my personal viewpoint). How unfortunate.
Kelly
i thought the same thing Kelly.
Especially the $1.40 and higher denominations. It's almost as if she were morphing into a Sith Lord!
Cheers,
Peter
Kiwis are big on inner beauty and so am I.
Should you prefer a wash-and-wear, drip-dry, no-iron, wrinkle-free society, relocate to southern California where the biggest industry is cosmetic surgery and the only people with sagging body parts are snowbirds.
All that being said, I agree, these New Zealand stamps are not attractive as stamps, lacking artistic merit and data capture. As an aside, I believe Canada issued the first set of postage stamps depicting an ageing Queen Elizabeth II, an innovation much applauded at the time by the British media, not so much by stamp collectors.
Even further aside, botulism toxin is as big a seller in Canada as it is in that nation where everyone over age thirty is irrelevant.
Yes, my face looks like thirty kilometres of corduroy road.
John Derry
If I'm not mistaken, I believe Canada was the first, or among the earliest, countries to depict Queen Victoria in her later years (not those pretty Chalon poses when she was 18!).
Cheers,
Peter
Here's a link to the NZ postal service's special commemorative set of stamps, featuring images of Queen Elizabeth II over the years. The set commemorates the 60th anniversary of her coronation, and features six "head shots" of the Queen from 1953 to present.
http://stamps.nzpost.co.nz/new-zealand/2013/queen-elizabeth-II-60th-anniversary-of-the-coronation
There is also a commemorative coin set.
Cheers,
Peter
(Modified by Moderator on 2013-05-08 09:32:51)
re: QEII NZ stamps show Queen over the years
Not very becoming portraits
Good idea but the aesthetics would make me cringe seeing them in my collection. (Just my personal viewpoint). How unfortunate.
Kelly
re: QEII NZ stamps show Queen over the years
i thought the same thing Kelly.
re: QEII NZ stamps show Queen over the years
Especially the $1.40 and higher denominations. It's almost as if she were morphing into a Sith Lord!
Cheers,
Peter
re: QEII NZ stamps show Queen over the years
Kiwis are big on inner beauty and so am I.
Should you prefer a wash-and-wear, drip-dry, no-iron, wrinkle-free society, relocate to southern California where the biggest industry is cosmetic surgery and the only people with sagging body parts are snowbirds.
All that being said, I agree, these New Zealand stamps are not attractive as stamps, lacking artistic merit and data capture. As an aside, I believe Canada issued the first set of postage stamps depicting an ageing Queen Elizabeth II, an innovation much applauded at the time by the British media, not so much by stamp collectors.
Even further aside, botulism toxin is as big a seller in Canada as it is in that nation where everyone over age thirty is irrelevant.
Yes, my face looks like thirty kilometres of corduroy road.
John Derry
re: QEII NZ stamps show Queen over the years
If I'm not mistaken, I believe Canada was the first, or among the earliest, countries to depict Queen Victoria in her later years (not those pretty Chalon poses when she was 18!).
Cheers,
Peter