7 August 2013
Stamps evoke an era of classic travel
Fancy a trip to ‘Timaru by the Sea’? Popping over to ‘Tauranga for Winter Sunshine’? These are just a couple of the
suggestions featured on New Zealand’s classic travel posters. Before the internet, colour television and colour
photography New Zealand relied on the charm of these iconic posters to entice travellers from near and far. A selection
of these posters have been miniaturised and make up a special stamp sheet issued by New Zealand Post.
The Classic Travel Posters stamp issue features 20 stamps - each valued at 70 cents - featuring classic travel posters,
many dating from the 1930s.
The stamps are available as a single sheet, or spread across four first day covers. A free poster is available when the
sheet or a set of first day covers is purchased.
“The original travel posters are works of art in their own right,” New Zealand Post’s stamps spokesman Simon Allison
says.
“Their original role was to entice travellers, and in that sense these posters helped to build New Zealand’s tourism
industry, which is now world famous.
“That makes for very colourful and eye-catching stamps, which evoke a real sense of nostalgia for the early years of New
Zealand tourism,” Simon Allison says.
The Classic Travel Posters stamp issue is available from 7 August 2013 at PostShops, REAL Aotearoa stores, and online at http://stamps.nzpost.co.nz/classictravel or by phoning 0800 782 677.
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