1939 Express Delivery

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		Cat.	Mint Unhinged	Mint Hinged	Fine Used
6d	Chrysler Coupe Car	65a	$9.00	$5.85	$9.90

	First Day Cover - 16 August 1939	65b			$607.50
	… 6d (65a)

In 1939 a new stamp was designed for express delivery featuring a Chrysler Coupe - which was then in use in the major centres for delivering express mail.

Of the 240 thousand copies of the stamp printed, over half were printed for collectors after the service was cancelled in December 1941 due to wartime considerations. This explains why the stamp is rarer in used than mint condition.

Bibliography

The Postage Stamps of New Zealand Volume II

Edited by R. J. G. Collins FRPSNZ and C. W. Watts FRPSNZ

Published 1950 by The Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand Incorporated

Pages 173 - 176, 259 - 260

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