2022 New Zealand Stamp Catalogue 7th Edition

• 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.

• 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 issues are updated:

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

Helpful Resources:

• How to read your Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue