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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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1967 - 1968 Decimal Pictorials - Part Two.

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 Definitive Tour.

          1967 - 1968  Decimal Pictorials - Part One.

                    An overview of this definitive issue with First Day Covers.
         1967 - 1968  Decimal Pictorials - Part Two.
                    Various extra issues that appeared over the next two years.
                    The information on the designs/subjects of each stamp in more detail.
                    Flaws and errors in the lower values.
                    Flaws and errors in the higher values.

1967 - 1968 New Values & Exports.
 A number of changes and new values were added to the 1967 Decimal Pictorials after the initial 18 stamps were issued and before the stamps were replaced by the 1970 Definitives / Pictorials. For convenience we have grouped them together here on one page in the order in which they were issued. Each issue included a First Day Cover which is also featured on this page.

7½ - Fishing - Trout.

First Day Cover - 29 August 1967.


15c - Tiki on Green Background.

First Day Cover - 19 March 1968.


 10c - Timber Industry.

First Day Cover - 2 April 1968.


  
28c - Fox Glacier (Issued July 1968)
We do not have a First Day Cover for this stamp.


$2 - Pohutu Geyser - Colour.

First Day Cover - 10 December 1968. 

$2.00 multi Geyser strip of three unusual Revenue usage of a postage stamp.
Notice how all three stamps have been crossed with a red pen then each stamp has been signed by the issuing officer and punched.


25c - Dairy Industry - Butter.

First Day Cover - 10 December 1968.


8c - Fruit Industry / Apples.

  
18c - Wool Industry.                                                     20c - Meat Industry.

First Day Cover - 8 July 1969.



7c - Fishing Industry. 

First Day Cover - 3 December 1969.





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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