Key Features
- 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.
NEW FOR THIS EDITION:
- 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.
