Details
- Series: 1974 Australian Paintings
- Subject: Hans Heysen 1877-1966
- Designer:
- Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia, Melbourne
- Press: Chambon
- Process: Multi-colour photogravure
- Cylinders: Yellow – Magenta – Cyan – Charcoal – Black
- Paper:
- Harrison unwatermarked paper non-luminescent gum arabic paper
- Harrison unwatermarked paper non-luminescent PVA paper*
- Watermark: None
- Perf: 13.5 x 13.25 (comb)
- Sheet: Printed in two panes of 25 stamps (R5 x 5) divided by vertical gutter.
- Quantity: 66,043,750
*The $1 “A Sergeant of Light Horse” and $2 “Red Gums of the Far North” stamps were originally printed on Harrison unwatermarked non-luminscent paper, with gum arabic adhesive. This paper had been in stock for some time. Since it was made, a world shortage of gum arabic developed, and stamp paper now generally uses polyvinyl alcohol adhesive. Thus, recent new printings [1976] of the $1 stamp were made on new supplies of Harrison unwatermarked PVA paper, without luminescence. Portins of the reprinting of the $2 stamp was made on remainder stocks of Harrison unwatermarked non-luminescence gum arabic paper, and the balance on Harrison unwatermarked non-luminescent PVA paper.
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