RARE STAMPS
nil) NEW ZEALAND COPIES u . VALUABLE. Saldln 1555 for a penny each, two Sew Zealand stamps changed Si recently for £250. stamps were printed in Lontejilßs4 and sent out to New Sjod,for the use of the soldiers Sailors then serving in the new Sjt. 'Tliese men were privileged Sd: their letters for a penny intwopence. As most of these pr letters came to England the yfpenny stamps of 1855 were alNew Zealand, isump collectors say that of the jftr/Zealand 80 years ago there jtprobably about a hundred copies gla existence. As they were the ftfpeuiy stamps used in New Zeajg Ware valued highly by colites?'
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11866, 5 November 1935, Page 1
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