1937.NZL.01Health stamp — rock climbing
New Zealand·1937
Annual Health issue, with surtax for the children's health camps
Series details
Identity
- CodeSeries code YYYY.ENT.SS — year, 3-letter issuing entity, sequence (e.g. 1900.CGH.01).
1937.NZL.01- EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
- New Zealand (NZL)
- Year
- 1937-10-01
- Event
- Annual Health issue, with surtax for the children's health camps
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Charity issue
Production
- Process
- Recess
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 11
Catalog numbers
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- NZ B12
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- NZ 235
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- NZ 236
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- NZ 602
History
New Zealand's Health stamp for 1937, issued on 1 October: a single scarlet 1d + 1d showing a boy climbing a rock face with a coil of rope over his shoulder, NEW ZEALAND across the head and POSTAGE · HEALTH at the foot. Recess-printed, 26 × 41 mm, comb perforation 11, on paper watermarked NZ over star in vertical columns. The printing was 897,035 and the stamp stayed on sale until 15 February 1938.
The Health stamps carried a surtax for the children's health camps, and their subjects were drawn from open-air life — swimming, running, climbing — the same register of fresh air and physical fitness that the youth movements worked in. This one has no Scout emblem and names no organisation; it is the climbing boy that brings it into the Scout catalogues.