New Zealand: Chalons - 1855-1873

Hi Dave and Andrew

Here is a nice item I picked up a while ago.

Very very rare to see a Chalon on an entire used for revenue purposes. 

It is believed the "GB"is Governors Bay

Hi Robert

I guess it could be "Government Board", I'm not 100% sure on Governors Bay.

If you click on the image it should enlarge on your computer on high resolution.

Regards Grant

Thanks for the nice words.

It is a real pleasure to assist anyone here with what 'little' knowledge I have. I am always learning myself.

I really hope that you are able to make it back to the US of A, to reunite with your collection, and to be able to post up the Chalons you have.
It will be interesting to see them and to be able to ascribe cat numbers to them too.

All the best

Dave

Here is another article - from Mowbrays site - which also mentions the revenue usage of the Chalon:

on page 6 of the following article >> New Zealand's first stamps

and here is the excerpt pertaining to revenue usage:



"The Stamp Duties Act, 1866 made provision for the use of POSTAGE stamps (i.e. Full-Face Queens) for fiscal purposes from

1 January 1867 when fiscal stamps were unavailable. An article in The Christchurch Press of 14th January 1867 indicated

that there was an immediate shortage of duty stamps, as shown by two examples in Figure 14. The first was used by the

Bank of New Zealand in Blenheim (dated 2/1/67).


The origin of the second example can probably be identified as being from Governors Bay, on Banks Peninsula, near

Christchurch. Part of the cancel is that of a generic PAID rubber stamp, frequently seen on revenue stamps; the other part

is a manuscript GB. This style of manuscript cancel is very like others which emanated from Governors Bay".

Dave

Hi Dave and others

I recently purchased this "PAID ALL" cancel

Not the nicest of stamps, but nice to add to my 6d page

Regards Grant

Hi Dave

Cant find a great deal of info.

The Postage Stamps of New Zealand, Vol 7 states:

Article IX of the Postal Convention between the United States and New Zealand, effective from 1 December 1870 read: Every fully prepaid letter dispatched from one country to the other should be plainly stamped with the words "PAID ALL" in red ink, on the right-hand upper corner of the address ...

However as can be seen by my copy and other reported copies sometimes the cancel was applied over the stamp instead of the address.

There are at least two known covers with "PAID ALL"stamped on them:

1. From Greymouth via Nelson to San Francisco ( 7 June 1872 )
2. From Wellington to Pennsylvania ( 18 January 1873 )

Regards Grant

And now that I think about this 'PAID ALL' marking I went and looked in to one of my 'Sidefaces' books and remembered I had this one :

1874-78 First Sideface 6d Blue SG156 p12½



Not a Chalon (as per this thread exactly :-) ) but it explains this marking on this stamp to me now (Lightbulb moment!!)

Cheers
Dave

Here is an SG4 1d Red - Richardson on Blue Paper 1856-61 with a red 'Crown over Registered' marking



Dave

I think so too Grant.

Here is the relevant small section from the RPSNZ vol.7 p263 about the PAID ALL usage:



Dave

Also just received is this strip of 3 'Davies' SG110 on 'star' wmk paper :



Clearly showing the issues faced when perforating the 1d, as the plate impressions were not exactly laid down in an orderly way !

Also, particularly as seen from the back, can be seen the way the perforations were made. Initially the government perforating machine was a 'comb' perf machine, but, this was altered within a couple of years to become a 'line' perforator.

Note the uneveness of the vertical perforations (the central rhs particularly 'drunk').



Dave

Hi Dave

Yes very unusual, I have not seen this before.

It would be great to have feed back from other readers whether they have see this before.

On a side note, what amazing clarity of print that 6d copy has, a real beauty showing the stunning design and printing.

Cheers Grant

I also have this one, which is a little worse for wear. A 'purple' colored cancel! Anyone care to guess which country would have applied this one?
America ? Canada ?




Dave