1923 Map Stamp

1923 Map Stamp

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		Cat.	Mint Unhinged	Mint Hinged	Fine Used
1d	Red / Map (Simplified)	35a	$10.80	$3.60	$1.35
	(i) on De La Rue chalky paper with toned gum	35a1	$9.00	$5.40	$1.80
	(ii) on Jones chalky paper with white gum	35a2	$16.20	$9.00	$10.80
	(iii) on Cowan paper with shiny gum	35a3	$54.00	$25.50	$37.80

	First Day Cover - 1 October 1923	35b			$450.00
	… 1d (35a)

In 1923 the New Zealand Government decided that it was time to restore universal penny postage following its suspension in 1915. The map stamp was issued to commemorate this. Strangely, however, the one penny dominion remained on sale and continued to be used after the map stamp was withdrawn from sale.

The map stamp was the first and only stamp impression to appear preprinted on postal stationery until the 1980s.

Bibliography

The Postage Stamps of New Zealand (Volume I)

Edited by R. J. G. Collins and H. T. M. Fathers B.A. B.Sc.

Published 1938 by The Philatelic Society of New Zealand Incorporated

Pages 384 - 386

The Postage Stamps of New Zealand Volume IV

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

Published 1960 by The Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand Incorporated

Page 389

The Postage Stamps of New Zealand Volume VI

Edited by D. E. G. Naish FRPSNZ and K. J. McNaught FRPSNZ FRPSL

Publsihed 1975 by The Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand Incorporated

Pages 136, 361

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