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POSTAL HISTORY – DOROTHY WILDING [photographer], Original Studio Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II [1952].
Starting Bid: $400
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Estimate:
$500 - $600
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POSTAL HISTORY – DOROTHY WILDING [photographer]
Original Studio Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II [1952].
Reproduced on the middle stamp values of the Queen Elizabeth II New Zealand 1954 Definitive Issue. 200 x 150mm, with Dorothy Wildings signature lower right corner. With a copy of the magazine featuring the portrait on front cover.
'Dorothy Wilding photographed Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on many occasions and a number of portraits were used as a basis for the image on postage stamps. This particular likeness was only used on the New Zealand middle value definitives which were issued in 1954, two years after the foundation of the NZ Society of Great Britain.' From 'The Kiwi' the Journal of the NZ Society of great Britain [2012].
Original Studio Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II [1952].
Reproduced on the middle stamp values of the Queen Elizabeth II New Zealand 1954 Definitive Issue. 200 x 150mm, with Dorothy Wildings signature lower right corner. With a copy of the magazine featuring the portrait on front cover.
'Dorothy Wilding photographed Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on many occasions and a number of portraits were used as a basis for the image on postage stamps. This particular likeness was only used on the New Zealand middle value definitives which were issued in 1954, two years after the foundation of the NZ Society of Great Britain.' From 'The Kiwi' the Journal of the NZ Society of great Britain [2012].
