Stamp: New Zealand Three Pence
Production date
January 1863
Description
One postage stamp, New Zealand Postage, three pence with postmark. Letters to Great Britain via Marseilles were charged an extra fee of 3d per 1/4 ounce and a stamp of this value became necessary. Perkins, Bacon and Company made a steel plate which was surfaced with nickel and printings were made from it at the office of the Postmaster-General, Auckland on paper watermarked large star. Early printing, 3d, brown-lilac (bluish in tone).
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