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Preview of Stamps Catalogue CD : VOLUME 1 |
Return To Catalogue - New Zealand 1898-1920 - Fiscal stamps - Official stamps, due etc.
Aitutaki - Cook Islands - Niue - Penrhyn - Rarotonga - Victoria Land and King Edward VII land
Note: on my website many of the pictures can not be seen! They are of course present in the cd's;
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Imperforate
1 p red 2 p blue 3 p lilac (1858) 6 p brown (1858) 1 Sh green
This and the next issue are commonly known as 'the Chalon heads' (after the designer Chalon).
Perforated (1862)
1 p red 1 p brown (1866) 2 p blue 2 p red (1866) 3 p lilac 4 p red (1864) 4 p yellow (1866) 6 p brown 6 p blue (1866) 1 Sh green
The first stamps were printed in London in very limited numbers (12000 of the 1 p red, 66000 of the 2 p blue and 8000 stamps of the 1 Sh value) on paper with 'Star watermark'. Later in 1855 stamps were printed in New Zealand by a private printer: Richardson (first on blue paper, then on white paper). The Richardson prints have no watermark. Some rare rouletted experimental perforations are known to exist in this period. In 1862 Davies took over the printing of the stamps, he used the paper with watermark 'Star' again. He changed to paper with watermark 'NZ Star' in 1862. In 1862 he also printed some stamps on unwatermarked paper (provisional issues). A very comprehensive site dealing with these stamps can be found at:http://www.nzstamps.fsnet.co.uk/index.html (highly recommended).
Various watermarks and perforations exist for these stamps.
(Lozenges and lines? watermark, the last watermark is a mystery to me)
Value of the stamps | |||
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon | *** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare | ||
Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
Watermark 'Star', imperforate (Specialists distinghuish subtypes on white or bluish paper) | |||
1 p red | RR | RR | |
2 p blue | RR | RR | |
3 p | RR | RR | 1863 |
6 p brown | RRR | RR | 1863 |
1 Sh | RRR | RR | |
No watermark, imperforate (1856) | |||
1 p red | RRR | RRR | |
2 p blue | RRR | RR | |
3 p | RRR | ? | |
6 p brown | RRR | RRR | |
1 Sh | RRR | RRR | |
No watermark, perforated or rouletted | |||
1 p red | RRR | RRR | |
1 p brown | RRR | RR | |
2 p blue | RRR | RRR | |
2 p red | RR | R | |
4 p yellow | RR | RRR | |
6 p brown | RRR | RRR | |
1 Sh | RRR | RRR | |
Watermark 'Star', perforated or rouletted | |||
1 p red | RR | R | |
1 p brown | RR | *** | |
2 p blue | RR | R | |
2 p red | RR | R | |
3 p | RR | R | |
4 p red | RR | RR | |
4 p yellow | RR | R | |
6 p brown | RR | *** | |
6 p blue | RR | R | |
1 Sh | RR | R | |
Watermark 'NZ', imperforate | |||
1 p red | RR | RR | |
2 p blue | RRR | RR | |
6 p brown | RRR | RRR | |
1 Sh | RRR | RR | |
Watermark 'NZ', perforated or rouletted | |||
1 p brown | - | RRR | The 1 p brown unused is not known to exist |
2 p blue | RR | RR | |
2 p red | RR | R | |
4 p yellow | RRR | RR | |
6 p brown | RR | RR | |
1 Sh | RRR | RRR | |
Watermark 'Lozenges' | |||
2 p red | RRR | RRR |
I've often seen imperforate blocks of stamps in the colour black. They are sometimes referred to as 'Hausberg' reprints and sometimes they are called 'proofs'. They seem to have been made in 1906. I have no furhter information about them, if anybody has more information, please contact me.. Example of such a reprint:
I've also seen the 4 p and 6 p of these Hausberg reprints, the 1 p, 3 p and 1 Sh should also exist (all in black). I've even seen a whole sheet of 240 stamps of the 2 p black.
Examples:
(Forgeries of the 1p red, 2 p blue and 1 Sh green stamps)
(A block of four forged 1 p red stamps)
There should be 10 dots on the right shoulder of the queen, and 7 on the left shoulder.
(Jeffreys forgery of the 1 Sh value, reduced size)
('Proof' of the 1 Sh green stamp of Jeffreys)
The above stamps are Jeffreys forgeries. Note the appearance of parts of adjoining stamps.
(I've been told that this is a 1 p Jeffreys forgery, but I'm not quite sure)
1/2 p red
This stamp exist with perforation 12 1/2 or 10 (combinations of both perforations also exist).
Value of the stamps | |||
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon | *** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare | ||
Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
Watermark 'NZ' | |||
1/2 p | R | *** | This watermark was actually a fiscal watermark, partial and missing watermarks exist Perforation 10, 12 1/2 or a combination of both |
Watermark 'Star' (1875) | |||
1/2 p | * | * | Perforation 12 1/2 or 12 |
Watermark 'NZ Star' (1892) | |||
1/2 p | * | c | Perforation 12 1/2 |
Newspaper wrappers with a similar design also exist (issued in 1878, and later another one in 1892 with the text changed).
1 p violet 2 p red 3 p brown 4 p brown 6 p blue 1 Sh green 2 Sh red 5 Sh grey
The 1 p and 2 p exist on watermark 'Star', all values exist with watermark 'NZ Star'. Example of a watermark 'Star':
These stamps exist printed on bluish paper.
Value of the stamps | |||
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon | *** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare | ||
Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
Watermark 'Star' | |||
1 p | RRR | RR | |
2 p red | RR | R | |
Watermark 'NZ Star' | |||
1 p | *** | * | |
2 p | *** | * | |
3 p | R | *** | |
4 p | R | *** | |
6 p | *** | *** | |
1 Sh | R | *** | |
2 Sh | RR | RR | Often badly centered. Mostly used fiscally |
5 Sh | RR | RR | Often badly centered. Mostly used fiscally |
I've seen a postcard in the design of the 1 p (but in the colour blue), the inscription reads: 'INLAND AND AUSTRALIAN POST CARD'.
1/2 p black (1891) 1 p red 2 p violet 2 1/2 p blue (1891) 3 p orange 4 p blue 5 p grey (1891) 6 p brown 8 p blue 1 Sh red
These stamps have watermark 'NZ Star' and exist with various perforations
Value of the stamps | |||
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon | *** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare | ||
Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
1/2 p | * | c | Exists with two different watermarks |
1 p | * | c | |
2 p | * | c | Exists with two different watermarks |
2 1/2 p | ** | * | |
3 p | *** | * | |
4 p | *** | * | |
5 p | *** | ** | |
6 p | *** | * | |
8 p | *** | *** | |
1 Sh | *** | * |
Some stamps had advertisements on the back, examples:
I have seen:
'S.MYERS & CO DENTISTS CHRISTCHURCH'
'USE Kaitangata COAL CHEAPEST & CLEANEST'
'USE ONLY PONEKE TABLE JELLY'
'BRIGHTNESS SUNLIGHT SOAP EVERYWHERE'
'MAKE HOME HAPPY SUNLIGHT SOAP'
'SUNLIGHT SOAP FOR Washing Dogs and Prize Poultry'
'LADIES USE SUNLIGHT SOAP FOR WASHING HAIR'
'A SLIGHT COLD USE AT ONCE BONNINGTONS IRISH MOSS'
'TRUEBRIDGE MILLER & REICH WELLINGTON CONTRACTORS FOR ADVERTISING ON STAMPS & TELEGRAMS'
'ADK FOR PATENT ODOURLESS WATERPROOFS'
'FOR Household Drapery, Go or send to W.Strange & Co.'
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