Mint set of four gummed stamps.
Individual stamps in this set
Mākereti Papakura, Lucy Moore, Joan Wiffen and Beatrice Hill Tinsley are four remarkable New Zealand women who achieved in the scientific fields of ethnography, botany, palaeontology and cosmology in the 20th century. Their contributions opened our eyes to our past, the natural world, our cultural traditions and legacies, and the universe.
$1.70 Lucy Moore (1906-1987) botanist and ecologist
This stamp depicts Lucy Moore with images of Pterocladia lucida, one of the seaweeds she observed and described. In her long career she was responsible for the taxonomy of a variety of native flora.
Lucy B. Moore, Plate 46, The Genus Pterocladia in New Zealand, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 74, 1944-45, p. 336.
$3.00 Joan Wiffen (1922-2009) palaeontologist
Joan Wiffen was a self-taught palaeontologist who, in 1975, discovered Aotearoa’s first dinosaur bone, a tail bone from a theropod, in Mangahouanga Stream in Hawke’s Bay.
J. Wiffen (1990) New mosasaurs (Reptilia; Family Mosasauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of North Island, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 33:1, 67-85, DOI: 10.1080/00288306.1990.10427574
$3.80 Beatrice Hill Tinsley (1941-1981) astrophysicist
In her short but remarkable career Beatrice Hill Tinsley proved that the universe was infinite and would expand forever, and that galaxies evolved and interacted. This picture shows Hill Tinsley in her office at Yale University in 1975.
- Photograph of Beatrice Muriel Tinsley, November 1975. Office of Public Affairs, Yale University, Photographs of Individuals (RU 686). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library
- Beatrice Tinsley Barred spiral: ESA/Hubble & NASA
$4.30 Mākereti Papakura (1873-1930) (Tūhourangi), leader, guide, ethnographer
Mākereti Papakura was an anthropologist whose posthumously published work, The Old-Time Māori (1938), is now widely acknowledged as the first published scholarly work of ethnography written by a Māori scholar.
- Kahu huruhuru (feathered cloak), 1850-1880. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (ME013125)
- Mākereti Papakura, Papers of Makereti: Drafts, 1887-1938. National Library of Australia, nla.obj-2194113213
In celebration of all the women scientists in Aotearoa New Zealand, this stamp issue highlights the remarkable work of four trailblazing women. Click here to find out more.
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| Date of issue: | 2 November 2022 |
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| Number of stamps: | Four gummed stamps |
| Denominations: | $1.70, $3.00, $3.80 & $4.30 |
| Designed and illustrated by: | Jo Bailey, Wellington, New Zealand |
| Printer and process: | Southern Colour Print, New Zealand by lithography |
| Number of colours: | Four process colours |
| Stamp size and format: | 28mm x 35.16mm (vertical) |
| Miniature sheet size and format: | 128mm x 90mm (horizontal) |
| Paper type: | Arconvert securpost premium gummed 110gsm |
| Number of stamps per sheet: | 20 |
| Perforation gauge: | 13.50 x 13.75 |
| Special blocks: | Plate/imprint blocks may be obtained by purchasing at least six stamps from a sheet. Barcode blocks are available in A and B formats. |
| Period of sale: | Unless stocks are exhausted earlier, these stamps will remain on sale until 1 November 2023. First day covers will remain on sale until 28 December 2022. |