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1953 Queen Elizabeth
II
Did you know that the differences between the two issues are very easy to
spot: larger values were added on the left of the stamp; 'New
Zealand' was shifted right of centre and the Southern Cross was
omitted from the right hand side of the design?
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1855
Full Face Queen Victoria - Chalon - Not Perforated
Did you know that the printers did not try to anticipate demand and by
1859 there was still a surplus of the initial shipment of one shilling
stamps - so much so that the postmaster in Otago took to cutting the
stamps in half to fill the sixpence postage rate?
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1935 Pictorials
Did you know that the two shilling stamp shows the landing of Captain Cook
at Poverty Bay on the 8th of October 1769?
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