New digital stamp art created in celebration of the New Zealand 1898 Pictorial stamps. New Zealand was one of the first countries in the world to put pictures of the countryside, birds, and animals on its stamps. These stamps became known as pictorials, and the first were issued on 5 April 1898, selected from around 2,400 that had been entered into a public competition. Now the art from these historical collectable stamps is available as another world-first-New Zealand’s first NFT stamps.