4 August 1995 $5.00 Souvenir
Sheet
Mint and CTO $5.00
FDC
$5.50
Release
Date:
4 August 1995
Tablet
Values:
$5.00 Souvenir Sheet
Artist:
Jennifer Toombs
Printer:
The House of Questa
Process:
Lithography
Paper:
CA Watermark
Stamp
Size:
30.56 x 38 mm
Perforation
Gauge:
14 per 2 cm
Souvenir Sheet
Size:
75 x 90 mm
Mint and
CTO:
$5.00
First Day
Cover:
$5.50
For example, according to our calculations, an image of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother appears on at least eleven Pitcairn Islands stamps:
1 August
1949:
Royal Silver Wedding - 1½d and 1/-
21 April
1986:
HM the Queen's 60th Birthday - 9c
4 August
1989:
The Queen Mothers 80th Birthday - 50c
7 June 1985: The Life and Times of HM the Queen Mother - 6c, 35c, 70c, $1.20, $2.00
4 August
1990:
Ninety Glorious Years - 40c, $3.00
Jennifer Toombs' design places the new stamp on a sheetlet with the background depicting the grain on a piece of Miro wood. Miro (Thespesia populnea) is one of the main woods used in carving the artifacts which are eagerly sought as momentoes by visitors to Pitcairn.
Among the flowers featuring on the sheet are rose apple, mountain apple, frangipani, miro, lata (rata), oleandor and burau - all of which are common on the island.