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New Zealand fiscal and postage stamps were overprinted for various revenue purposes. Some are given below. Counterpart Counterpart stamps were attached to duplicate (i.e. counterpart) documents provided that the full stamp duty had been paid on the original. The counterpart fee was 2s 6d. The first issue was in 1870 and the design was Die I of the 1867 Revenue issue. The stamp on the left is Die II and was issued in 1880. In 1887, stamps were issued in the design of the revenue stamps of 1880, but with the word Counterpart in rather small letters above the value as in the example on the below. In 1916 the fee was increased to 3s 0d and ordinary revenue stamps were overprinted diagonally in black although special printings were made as the colour was always yellow. It exists both perf 14 and perf 14½x14. In 1927, the George V 3s 0d Admiral stamp was printed on Cowan paper, perf 14, in orange yellow and overprin
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Royal Visit 2019

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On 17 November 2019, Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales and heir to the throne of New Zealand, began a six-day tour of Aotearoa with his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall. This trip will be Camilla’s third and Charles’ tenth. 

Charles and Camilla.

The 2019 Royal Visit issued followed the same as many other NZ Post issues recently in that it was only issued in a miniature sheet format. This meant that to use the stamps the miniature sheet would be destroyed. This could lead to single copies of these stamps becoming very valuable in their used condition.

The Royal Visit 2019 mint stamp sheet features six stamps depicting the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall at official events during their visit to New Zealand in November 2019. 


The Single Stamps.

$2.60 - Charles & Camilla.
Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall at Government House, Auckland.

              
$1.30 - Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales.              $3.30 - Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.  

$3.30 - Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall at the Waitangi Treaty Ground, traditional wearing Maori cloaks.

             
$1.30 - Prince Charles inspecting the New Zealand Police Guard.
$2.60 - Prince Charles laying a wreath at the Mount Roskill War Memorial.
                   

Technical information.
Date of issue: 22 November 2019.
The number of stamps: Six gummed stamps.
Denominations: $1.30 (x2), $2.60 (x2), $3.30 (x2).
Stamps designed: Hannah Fortune, New Zealand Post, Wellington, New Zealand.
Printer: Collectables and Solutions Centre, New Zealand Post, Whanganui, New Zealand.
The number of colours: Four process colours.
Stamp size and format: 36.95mm x 37.5mm (vertical).
Sheet size: 260mm x 170mm.
Paper type: Tullis Russell 104gsm red phosphor gummed stamp paper
The number of stamps per sheet: Six.
Perforation gauge: 14.4 x 14.615.
Period of sale: Unless stocks are exhausted earlier, these stamps will remain on sale until 21 November 2020.

Some of the images in this post were used with permission from the illustrated catalogue of StampsNZ
You can visit their website and Online Catalogue at, http://stampsnz.com/

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