New Zealand 1960-66 3d 'Kowhai', error GREEN OMITTED resulting in the leaves shown in white, SG785b.
Pristine unmounted mint example with full original gum.
A very scarce stamp error.
In November 1958 the Postmaster-General announced that a new set of pictorial stamps would be issued progressively from July 1960. A public competition was held to obtain designs and 1,072 entries were received from 268 competitors. The values in the new set from 1d to 8d all comprised designs depicting native flora.
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