Showing posts with label 1898-Early New Zealand Postage Stamps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1898-Early New Zealand Postage Stamps. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

New Zealand-Edward the 7th-1909-1 Shilling Definitive-Illustrated


Shown below is the 1 Shilling (vermilion) value from the set of definitives issued for New Zealand in 1909.





Tuesday, November 8, 2011

New Zealand-2 Varieties of an 1898 2 Pence Halfpenny Pictorial Postage Stamp-Illustrated

Shown below are the two varieties of the 1898 stamp issue of Mt Earnslaw and Lake Wakatipu. The stamp was first inscribed "Lake Wakitipu" and issued in a sky-blue then issued again with the correct inscpription "Lake Wakatipu" in blue. The re-printed design was also slightly modified with the Mount Earnslaw inscription along the bottom left out and "Postage and Revenue" formerly under the "New Zealand" inscription put in place of "Mount Earnslaw".