1931 Airmails
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Cat. |
Mint Unhinged |
Mint Hinged |
Fine Used |
3d |
Chocolate Brown (Simplified) |
42a |
$135.00 |
|
$36.00 |
|
$25.20 |
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(i) Perf 14 x 14½ (Issued 1931) |
42a1 |
$144.00 |
|
$40.50 |
|
$27.00 |
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(ii) Perf 14 x 15 (Issued 1935) |
42a2 |
$342.00 |
|
$270.00 |
|
$900.00 |
|
4d |
Purple / Violet |
42b |
$139.50 |
|
$40.50 |
|
$31.50 |
|
7d |
Light Brown |
42c |
$144.00 |
|
$49.50 |
|
$31.50 |
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Set of 3 |
42d |
$397.60 |
|
$119.70 |
|
$83.80 |
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First Day Cover - 10 November 1931 |
42e |
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$1,800.00 |
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… Three Stamps : 3d (42a), 4d (42b), 7d (42c) |
Airmail stamps may have been issued sooner if early postal
delivery trials by air within New Zealand had been more successful.
However, in 1922 it was concluded that the aircraft in use were unsuited to
long distance flights and the trial service was not well patronised by the
public.
It was overseas developments which prompted the 1931 issue.
At the Universal Postal Union Convention in 1929, an international
agreement was drawn up where mail that was posted in New Zealand could
utilise airmail services in Australia, Canada, North America and the
Karachi-London service. This agreement came into force in July
1930.
Surcharging the threepence King George V stamp for airmail
services was considered but this was abandoned in favour of a new issue for
mail flown over part of its route abroad.
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
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