New Zealand 1930 1d + 1d scarlet "Nurse", SG545

New Zealand 1930 1d + 1d scarlet "Nurse", SG545New Zealand 1930 1d + 1d scarlet "Nurse", inscribed "HELP PROMOTE HEALTH", SG545. A well centred block of 4, neatly cancelled by complete and part strikes of WELLINGTON registered circular date stamps, dated "18 AP 31". An attractive and uncommon multiple. Owing to pressure of work being experienced by the plate makers in England there was insufficient time to produce printing plates for the new stamp design for this 1930 issue. The only alternative

common for this stamp with this example being above average

I have always considered this stamp undervalued by the market

A choice trio

It's interesting to note that in 1814

British Indian Ocean Territory 1968 10r multicoloured

Grenada 1938-50 10s slate-blue and carmine lake

Yast seems a man of most liberal whims

50 each of 13c to $1

Only 33 examples of the error originally existed

Using this chain

During this period old stocks of the 96c brownish grey were exhausted and a few of the olive-bistre colour error had to be circulated

Holley signed to Decca Records in 1956