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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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2013 Classic Travel Poster

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     Tomorrow (7th August) New Zealand will issue set of 20 stamps depicting Classic Travel Posters. Three examples of these can be seen below.

  


          The twenty stamps, all with the value of 70c, will be sold from sheets of 20 as can be seen in the view below of the wall poster which will be sold as well. As you can see they appear to be interesting designs but I have been unable to find out much about them. 


 Below is each of the 20 stamps with a short caption describing them. 

                                                
Napier Carnival / January 21 - 28 1933.                                       New Zealand. Deep Sea Fishing. 
     Very Low Train Fares.                                                                   The Sportsman's Paradise.
                                             
                             
                                                
     Tree Fern / New Zealand.                                                    Rata Blossoms Franz Josef Glacier
                                                                                                         New Zealand.
                           
                                                
   Government Tourist Department                        New Zealand Life and Scenes - Number Seven
For the Worlds Best Sport - New Zealand.                             Cities of New Zealand, Wellington
                                                      
                                                 
Your New Zealand Holiday,                                        New Zealand The Playground of the Pacific
          Fly TEAL.                                                                     Get in the Queue for Queenstown
                                                 
                                                
            Timaru by the Sea.                                                      New Zealand / Mountain Lake Scene.
                                               
                                               
Tauranga For Winter Sunshine,                                                                     Kea (Alpine Parrot)
Best Reached by Rail.                                                                                         New Zealand.
                                              
                                                
New Zealand Southern Alps,                                                     Government Tourist Department
Travel the Mount Cook way!                                                     Malborough Sounds New Zealand. 
                                              
                                                 
Sheep Droving in New Zealand.                                              New Zealand - for your next holiday.
                                                    
                                                 
For winter thrills / Mount Cook,                                                        Mount Egmont - 8,260 feet,
Train to Timaru.                                                                                New Zealand.
                                            
                                                 
     Fly TEAL to nearby,                                                            Government Tourist Department  
        New Zealand.                                                                             Blue Baths, Rotorua
                                  
Some of the images in this post were used with permission from the illustrated catalogue of StampsNZ
You can visit their web site and On-line Catalogue at, http://stampsnz.com/ 
    

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