New Zealand 1862 from Chalon portrait

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Description

  • Issue Year : 1862
  • Designed by : Humphreys
  • Printed by : John Davis at Auckland
  • Print Process : Recessed
  • Perforations : none or rouletted
  • Watermark: large star
  • Catalogue N°s: Michel N°s 13-17, Stanley Gibbons see stamp, Yvert 12-21

Queen Victoria from the portrait by A.E. Chalon (1780-1860).

Stamps

6 d reddish-brown shade, used 05, SG42-43
1 sh green shade unused. Looks like 1864 cut perforations!