Stamps: Cook Islands One Penny
Production date
19 April 1892
Description
Four conjoined postage stamps, Cook Islands Federation Postage, one penny with postmarks. Designed by F J Moss, Resident Commissioner of the Cook Islands, and J F Rogers of the New Zealand Government Printing Office, and adapted from the Printing Office frank stamp. The centre of the design is taken from the seal of the administration and represents the seven inhabited islands. The original die was set up in type and four subsidiary dies were made in which the values were inserted. From each of these dies, six impressions were taken and arranged in two horizontal rows of three and ten groups of electrotypes made to form the printing plate of 60 impressions. The printing was done at the Government Printing Office, Wellington on unwatermarked wove paper of two types, one white and one tones. The perforations, which gauge 12 1/2, were effected by means of a line machine. 105,660 of the one penny were printed.
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