New Zealand: Chalons - 1855-1873

Hi Mark

I agree with Dave re your 2d's. Without a close look I feel only the first one is SG2, the others look like the SG36-39 group.

Here are some of mine to show you shade variations.

SG2 ( two copies and on cover )







Next is the SG36-39 group on star watermark paper ( note the progressive plate wear )

SG36 Deep Bright Blue



SG36 Bright Blue



SG36 Dull Deep Blue



SG36 Deep Blue on cover ( 27 August 1862 )



SG36 Blue ( Wet Print )



SG37 Slate Blue two copies  ( first copy is very close to Ultramarine, I would argue it is actually Ultramarine, although it has a certificate as Slate Blue  )





SG37a Pale or Milky Blue



SG38 Blue



SG38 Blue on cover ( certificate says blue but it is very close to Greenish Blue )



SG38 Pale Greenish Blue



SG38 Greenish Blue



SG39 Blue showing "21" part double cancellation of Invercargill



SG39 Blue



SG39 Blue showing recut left frame line Row 10, No 5



SG39 Blue showing light CDS "B2" of Richmond dated 11 Feb 1864




Cheers Grant

Dave,

I just scanned in my blue paper Richardson's. Looks like a graduation of colors. (note that scanners have different color representations, these are all done on the same scanner, but each one seperately). The darker ones look like there is some color change by age or some other process.

All 3 of your shown stamps are from the edge of the sheet. The one with the single wmk line seems, from the scanned pages you later show, comes from near the word 'POSTAGE' in the sheet wmk.

Dave

Lovely examples yet again Grant :-)

Those ones with the CDS cancellations of B2 and E5 are from the Nelson Postal District. I have a 6d brown imperf SG43 somewhere here with a C3 postmark.
I will find it this weekend and scan it in.

Dave

A couple of items just received in :



The 1/- with a nice partial CDS of Gisborne and a 2d orange with a partial CDS of Wangarei dated Apr 1873.

Dave

Nice Philip.

A very crisp (steel-like) cancellation there :-) Very clear!

Now to find A 1 / F 6 / G 7 etc etc

Dave

Dave, thanks for the link to Andrew Murphy's examples and Andrew, WOW, those examples change my understanding completely. The IN example above proves that the paper was used reversed and your example with lozenge and letters, the letters being the top of the I and small side of the V, is also reversed. So we now have examples reading correctly from the front and back of the stamps. The problem with this is that many examples don't have sufficient of the letters showing to know which way they were printed so we can't make assumptions from the plated examples about the position of the watermark. More examples and more study required.
Andrew can you post your examples here.

Philip 

Dave, Volume 1 of the handbooks say's the star paper had 5 lines around the border with the 4 outer lines broken to include the word postage 6 times around the margins. Your example is consistent with that description. It also say's that marginal stamps from the plates for the 3d, 4d and 2d plate 2, always encroach on the selvedge watermark due to the printed area being a little wider than the original plates.

Philip

Skid I think there is only 4 "Vertical Bar" Cancellations that were used through the Chalon period. I have posted below a selection from my collection of the Vertical Bar Cancellations. Interesting was going back and looking at the article in Vol. 99 No.2 of the NZ Stamp Collector where Geoff Rickards used a "3" Cancellation to show example of "Horizontal Bar" cancels and had this one as being from "Waipawa". I have what I believe to be the same "3" cancellation and I have it catalogued as "Wairau Valley" looking at Geoff's and mine and re-reading Vol. 7 page 220 of the Postage Stamps of New Zealand, Geoff is definitely correct as the top of the "3" is not level with the adjacent bars.



I have shown to examples of the hard to get "W" of Wellington.



Regards Andrew

I would like to see if anyone has the below example of the larger "W" on a Chalon, I suspect it was brought in to service after the Chalon Period?

Nice to see the Cancellation.

Andrew

Nice L 15 Andrew.

I love these Letter/Number CDS's. Only used from 1862 for a few years - during the 1860's !

Dave

From what I can see in Vol.3 page 58 fig.9 it would appear that this cancel came out in the very late 1870's (perhaps 1878-79) so should NOT be seen on Chalons as these were last printed in late 1873.

But we shall keep a look out with our copies - just in case :-)

Dave

Any certificates for those roulette 7's Dave?

Philip