New Zealand 1994 Mount Cook
1994. Mount Cook and New Zealand symbols.
The only stamp Czeslaw Slania has designed for New Zealand is the largest and highest value stamp issued by New Zealand. It includes gold foil on watermarked phosphor-coated paper. Mount Cook is New Zealand's highest mountain at 3700 metres and is also called Aorangi ("The cloud piercer" in Maori).
The design also shows the New Zealand flag, with the Union Jack in the upper left corner and the four stars of the Southern Cross to the right; flowers of the kowhai tree and the branch of a ponga tree-fern, both national symbols of New Zealand. Across the top of the stamp is a traditional design used by Maori on rafters, doors & windows. As well as an elaborate watermark, the stamp has the New Zealand Post and their logo, printed on the face of the stamp as a security measure. These words are visible when the stamp is held obliquely to the light.
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