1972 Ross Dependency Pictorials

		Cat.	Mint	Used
3c	Skua Gull - Perf 12.9 x 13¼	187a	$1.00	$0.80
	(i) With brighter blue and thinner paper - Perf 12.9 x 13¼ (Issued 1979)	187a1	$0.60	$1.20
4c	Royal NZ Air Force Hercules / Williams Airfield - Perf 12.9 x 13¼	187b	$0.75	$0.80
	(i) With purple rather than violet background on thinner paper - Perf 12.9 x 13¼ (Issued 1979)	187b1	$0.75	$1.20
5c	Shackleton's 1908 Hut Cape Royds - Perf 12.9 x 13¼	187c	$1.15	$0.80
	(i) With lighter sky on thinner paper - Perf 12.9 x 13¼ (Issued 1979)	187c1	$0.55	$1.60
8c	Navy Supply Ship HMNZS Endeavour - Perf 12.9 x 13¼	187d	$1.60	$1.60
	(i) With a deeper purple ship on thinner paper - Perf 12.9 x 13¼ (Issued 1979)	187d1	$0.75	$2.00
10c	Scott Base - Perf 14¾ x 14	187e	$1.20	$2.00
	(i) On thinner paper - Perf 13¾ x 13¼ (Issued 1979)	187e1	$0.80	$2.00
18c	Tabular Ice Flow - Perf 14¾ x 14	187f	$2.00	$2.40
	(i) On thinner paper - Perf 13¾ x 13¼ (Issued 1979)	187f1	$1.60	$2.40
	Set Of 6	187g	$7.30	$8.00
	First Day Cover - 18th January 1972	187h		$9.60

This issue replaced the 1967 Ross Dependency Decimal Pictorials as the new definitive set and remained in circulation until the 1982 Ross Dependency 25th Anniversary of Scott Base stamps were issued. Although not a commemorative issue, the stamps were issued on the 60th Anniversary of Scott's Polar Party reaching the South Pole on January 18th, 1912.

In January 1979 a new printing of the same designs on new plates was issued on thinner white chalky paper with a PVA surface adhesive which appears dull compared to the shiny Gum Arabic used on the original stamps. The colours used are also slightly different - most notably on the four and eight cent stamps - and the paper used in the first printing is cream coloured when compared against the 1979 printing.

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