Stanley Gibbons Commonwealth Stamp Catalogue: New Zealand

This catalogue provides a comprehensive priced listing of all New Zealand stamps from the early colonial stamps of 1855 to 2022. It also includes Antarctic Expeditions, Tokelau and Ross Dependency as well as pre-independence issues of Cook Islands, Niue and Samoa and listings for the New Zealand post office on Fanning, Washington and Pitcairn Islands.

The Stanley Gibbons New Zealand Catalogue is a detailed and highly informative catalogue, ideal for any collector who specialises in the stamps of this area.

Apart from the stamps of the current issuing country, the Stanley Gibbons New Zealand Catalogue covers a number of other areas of interest:

• New Zealand Stamp Design Index from 1946
• New Zealand Stamp Booklets and Premium Booklets
• Express Delivery Stamps, Postage Due Stamps, Official Stamps, Life Insurance Department and Postal Fiscal Stamps
• Antarctic Expeditions (Victoria Land)
• Ross Dependency
• Tokelau Islands
• Aitutaki (New Zealand Dependency, 1903–1927)
• Cook Islands (British Protectorate, 1892–1899)
• Cook Islands (New Zealand Territory, 1901–1965)
• Niue (New Zealand Dependency, 1902–1974)
• Penrhyn Island (New Zealand Dependency, 1902–1929)
• Western Samoa (Independent Kingdom, 1877–1900)
• Western Samoa (German Protectorate, 1886 to 1914)
• Western Samoa (New Zealand Occupation, 1914–1919)
• Western Samoa (League of Nations Mandate, 1920–1946)
• Western Samoa (United Nations Trust Territory, 1952–1958)
• New Zealand post offices on the Gilbert and Ellice Islands
• New Zealand post office on Pitcairn Island

• New Zealand (updated to April 2022)
• Ross Dependency (updated to September 2021)
• Tokelau Islands (updated to November 2020)
  

• Prices have been extensively revised throughout the catalogue with hundreds of increases throughout all periods from the Chalon heads to modern issues.
• A comprehensive index of commemorative and pictorial stamps since 1946 will allow individual stamps to be easily identified.
• The Crowned Circle ‘Paid at’ handstamps in use at offices prior to the arrival of the first stamps are listed and priced.
• The listings for issues up to 1970 have been extracted from the 2023 edition of the Stanley Gibbons Commonwealth and British Empire Stamps 1840-1970. Later issues have been revised and updated especially for this volume.

• The New Zealand section of the 2023 ‘Part 1’ Commonwealth Catalogue has been extensively revised with the majority of stamps issued before 1910 marked up – often very substantially – with further increases through to 1935 and beyond. Officials and Postage Dues see a similar patteron of increases.
• Dozens of newly listed varieties and errors.
• Helpful new notes added throughout, including descriptions of the counter-coil numbered pairs.
• The first set of postal fiscals with Large ‘NZ’ watermark now listed as a separate set.
• New notes on the Silver Jubilee overprint varieties of Cook Islands and Niue.