This catalogue provides a comprehensive priced listing of all New Zealand stamps from the early colonial stamps of 1855 to 2022. It also includes Antarctic Expeditions, Tokelau and Ross Dependency as well as pre-independence issues of Cook Islands, Niue and Samoa and listings for the New Zealand post office on Fanning, Washington and Pitcairn Islands.
Key Features
- Prices have been extensively revised throughout the catalogue with hundreds of increases throughout all periods from the Chalon heads to modern issues.
- A comprehensive index of commemorative and pictorial stamps since 1946 will allow individual stamps to be easily identified.
- The Crowned Circle ‘Paid at’ handstamps in use at offices prior to the arrival of the first stamps are listed and priced.
- The listings for issues up to 1970 have been extracted from the 2023 edition of the Stanley Gibbons Commonwealth and British Empire Stamps 1840-1970. Later issues have been revised and updated especially for this volume.
- The New Zealand section of the 2023 ‘Part 1’ Commonwealth Catalogue has been extensively revised with the majority of stamps issued before 1910 marked up – often very substantially – with further increases through to 1935 and beyond. Officials and Postage Dues see a similar patteron of increases.
- Dozens of newly listed varieties and errors.
- Helpful new notes added throughout, including descriptions of the counter-coil numbered pairs.
- The first set of postal fiscals with Large ‘NZ’ watermark now listed as a separate set.
New notes on the Silver Jubilee overprint varieties of Cook Islands and Niue.
Detailed Contents/Countries Covered
- New Zealand Stamp Design Index from 1946
- New Zealand Stamp Booklets and Premium Booklets
- Express Delivery Stamps, Postage Due Stamps, Official Stamps, Life Insurance Department and Postal Fiscal Stamps
- Antarctic Expeditions (Victoria Land)
- Ross Dependency
- Tokelau Islands
- Aitutaki (New Zealand Dependency, 1903–1927)
- Cook Islands (British Protectorate, 1892–1899)
- Cook Islands (New Zealand Territory, 1901–1965)
- Niue (New Zealand Dependency, 1902–1974)
- Penrhyn Island (New Zealand Dependency, 1902–1929)
- Western Samoa (Independent Kingdom, 1877–1900)
- Western Samoa (German Protectorate, 1886 to 1914)
- Western Samoa (New Zealand Occupation, 1914–1919)
- Western Samoa (League of Nations Mandate, 1920–1946)
- Western Samoa (United Nations Trust Territory, 1952–1958)
- New Zealand post offices on the Gilbert and Ellice Islands
- New Zealand post office on Pitcairn Island
New issues are updated:
- New Zealand (updated to April 2022
- Ross Dependency (updated to September 2021)
- Tokelau Islands (updated to November 2020)