New Zealand: Second Sidefaces - 1882-1900

I saw that cover on eBay Klem. Nice score!
1882 dated examples are very worth collecting due to the haphazard way this issue was released to the public.
Although AP 1 1882 is the official release date individual Post Offices released them only when stocks of both the FSF and Stamp Duty types ran out.

28 JY 82 is a great early date!


Dave

Here's another one.

tundrawolf

Any possibility or reading the addressee under all the scribble ?
Shepton Mallet is close to my home town in Somerset

Your cover seems to be signed "HP"
I am wondering if it correspondence of a Vincent Pyke, or Vincent Pike, or to Pike's family ?  (Born in Shepton Mallet)


In 1862 Pyke visited the Otago goldfields, and became Secretary or Commissioner of the goldfields
for the Otago Provincial Council. He then moved to Dunstan and Clyde. He was the
first Chairman of Vincent County, which was named after him following an ironic suggestion by an opponent.

He represented the electorates of Wakatipu 1873–1875, then Dunstan 1875–1890.
He contested the 1890 election in the Mount Ida electorate, but was beaten by Scobie Mackenzie.
He then represented Tuapeka from 1893 to 1894 when he died.
He was noted for his loyalty to Clyde and his Central Otago constituents.

Nice enhancement there Klem. Not in Robin's earlier list but I sent him a scan of this one and other 1882 dated SSF stamps I have.

It's probably time for an updated list to be published.

I found these amongst my spares of the Second Sidefaces (SSF) :

All dated 82



Now the CP catalog only mentions the 4d when it comes to the 1882 dated examples. It states :

Stamps (D6a) dated 1882 are rare.

D6a being the 1882 original issue 4d.


I used Retroreveal to show in negative the 4d above as I wasn't sure if it was indeed 82 or some other date - 85 or 88 for example.

What do you think?





I also have this 1/- - it looks as though it is dated 80 ! which of course it couldn't be. Either a date slug error or a misshaped 80 - perhaps it should be 83!





Dave

Interesting that this is a topic being discussed right now as I was just wondering on an early use of this issue and thought to check this thread.
As I don't have Robin's List I don't suppose there is a chance of seeing what there is for the 2d? Sure to be more and earlier examples given its relative abundance but keen to know.

Well here is the stamp in question. A little beauty I picked up in a mixed lot of sidefaces, by far the best of the bunch.



It was not for the date itself I was interested but the postal office. I had not seen an example of this one before and it prompted a little bit of research.
We all know the 1906 Christchurch Exhibition through the first commemorative set issued for the event but turns out the 1882 Christchurch "International" Exhibition was heralded with equal if not greater enthusiasm in its day.

                                            Front Entry of Exhibition Building                                                    ...and the entire layout in Hagley Park, with NZ Court on left and World Court on right

At least the organisers managed to get its own branch Postal Office and Money Order room for the duration of the exhibition. 
This was located in the entrance hall, possibly through the arched door on far left of the image below, behind the fountain.



The Exhibition ran from 10th April through to 24th July 1882 and as impressive as the buildings were these were all promptly sold off and demolished within days of closing.
Interesting coincidence on the opening date as almost the same as that of first issue of the new series of stamps. As such any used here will be either late use FSF or early SSF.
(I have not found anything to confirm if this was deliberate and most likely not, though a big deal was made of new stamp issues in the day).

Another little quirk I liked that related to this stamp was that one of the organisers was a Mr Twopeny. 

For those interested I recommend reading up on it, fascinating, these early exhibitions, real insights into what drove the development of this country.

Clayton

A really nice and interesting cancel there, Clayton.

Nice postmark guys 

They have it all going on for them :

• CDS SON cancel
• Rare Post Office
• Early usage date - 1882

I want one! lol



Dave

The other thing I like on this one is the balance of the date 28 JU 82.
It has a symmetry to it, almost mirrored. 

That it does. I wonder do you also have an image of the FSF referred to above as "the example opposite"?
Thanks for sharing.

I just received in from the UK these 3 small bundles of the SSF 1d & 2d.

They only cost about £4-5 each, so worth a punt!




and opened up :




They are all very clean, no hinging evidence at all on any of them so presumably they have never been in a stamp album in their lives!!



Dave

A few varieties such as :

A 'chisel flaw' , a 'screwdriver or ellipse flaw' an 'nn' flaw and a 'bullet hole thru head' 





Dave

and a few decent closed post office 'A' class cancels :







Dave