Catalogue Notes

(i) Our catalogue lists all New Zealand stamps up until deregulation of the postal services (1st of April 1998), and since then only New Zealand Post issued stamps. The catalogue also contains an increasing number of varieties and errors.

(ii) Prices quoted for sets always indicate how many items are included and refer to that many preceeding items in the list. Varieties are excluded from the set.

(iii) Ross Dependency stamps have been issued by New Zealand postal authorities for use on mail from Scott Base since 1957. The stamps are not generally valid on New Zealand mail, however mail from the Ross Dependency is processed by a New Zealand Post outlet in Christchurch and members of the public are able to post items bearing Ross Dependency stamps at this office.

(iv) Fiscal stamps were authorised for postal use within New Zealand from 1882, but many of the higher value stamps were almost certainly never required or used for postal services. We only include Fiscal stamps that were commonly used for parcel or general postage in our catalogue.

(v) The 1855 Full Face Queen Victoria - Chalon - Not Perforated issue contains the only imperforate stamps issued for general postal use in New Zealand. They were printed with a narrow margin between stamps which effectively means that a fine example with full margins around all four sides necessitated the sacrifice of all the stamps around it. The catalogue value listed is for stamps from this issue with at least two complete margins and where the complete stamp design is largely intact. Stamps with three or four full margins are worth considerably more.

(vi) Stamps prepared for issue but never issued are included in our catalogue out of interest (along with a rough estimate of value) but are not expected to be found in a comprehensive collection of New Zealand stamps. We do not carry them in stock.

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