1957 Ross Dependency Pictorials

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		Cat.	Mint Unhinged	Mint Hinged	Fine Used
3d	HMS Erebus and Mount Erebus	101a	$2.70	$1.35	$1.80
4d	Explorers - Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton	101b	$3.60	$1.35	$2.25
8d	Antarctic Region Map (Simplified)	101c	$5.40	$4.50	$6.30
	(i) Carmine Red and Ultramarine Blue (Purple Tinge)	101c1	$5.85	$4.95	$7.20
	(ii) Carmine Red and Cerulean Blue (Green Tinge)	101c2	$9.90	$6.30	$8.10
1/6	Queen Elizabeth II	101d	$9.90	$8.10	$4.50

	Set of 4 individual stamps	101e	$20.50	$14.55	$14.10

	First Day Cover - 11 January 1957	101f			$10.80
	… 3d (101a), 4d (101b), 8d (101c), 1/6 (101d)

These stamps were issued to be used in the special Post Office (actually a tent) established in Ross Dependency by Sir Edmund Hillary as part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The stamps were intended to help support New Zealand's claim of sovereignty over the Dependency.

The stamps continued in use and were decimalised in the 1967 Ross Dependency Decimal Pictorials issue with the same designs.

The 8 penny stamp is available in two varieties with differing shades of blue - in this illustration Cerulean blue (101c2) is on the left and Ultramarine blue (101c1) is on the right.

Bibliography

The Postage Stamps of New Zealand Volume V

By R. J. G Collins FRPSL FRPSNZ

Edited by A. R. Burge FRPSNZ and C. W. Watts FRPSNZ

Published 1967 by The Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand Incorporated

Pages 768 - 772

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