New Zealand
Stamp Booklets

 1915 - 1934 George V

Campbell Paterson

Stanley Gibbons

 

Approx
Value
201
7
W4a SB8 1915 (Feb) 2/- Booklet 3,000.00
    Two panes of 6 of ½d George V (K13a, SG435) and three panes of 6 of 1d Dominion Stamp (J1a, SG405). The 1d Dominion is on De La Rue paper. Stamps perforated 14x15, watermark W7. Bars are on the selvedges for both values. Both values were produced using Electrotype plates, which have characteristic blurring. Interleaving was in the form of sheets bearing various advertisements.  
 

 

   
W4b SB8 1919 2/- Booklet 2,700.00
    Two panes of 6 of ½d George V (K13a, SG435) and three panes of 6 of 1d Dominion Stamp (J1a, SG405). The 1d Dominion is on De La Rue paper. Stamps perforated 14x15, watermark W7. Bars are on the selvedges for both values. The plates used for W4b were new, being of steel, and no blurring occurred. Interleaving was in the form of sheets bearing various advertisements.  
 

 

   
W4c SB9 1924 (Dec 1) 2/- Booklet 3,000.00
    Two panes of 6 of ½d George V (K13c, SG441) and three panes of 6 of 1d Dominion Stamp (J2a, SG406). Both values on Jones paper. Stamps perforated 14x15, watermark W7. Bars are on the selvedges for both values. Interleaving was in the form of sheets bearing various advertisements.  
 

 

   
W4d SB10 1925 2/- Booklet 3,750.00
    Two panes of 6 of ½d George V (K13e, SG446) and three panes of 6 of 1d Dominion Stamp (J6a, SG410). Both values on Cowan paper. Stamps perforated 14x15, watermark W7. Bars are on the selvedges for both values. For W4d, advertisements were now printed on the side selvedges in blue. The custom was to have the same set of advertisements on every pane in a booklet, but there is one occasion where different advertisements can be found in the one booklet. The following three booklets can be found, "Abdulla" on the sides and "Jeyes Fluid" on the binding; "Dainties" on the sides and "Jeyes Fluid" on the binding; and the composite booklet with "Cameron Bros", "Big Tree", "Kaitangata" on the sides and "Jeyes Fluid" on the binding. The composite is valued at $25,000.  
 
Front Cover

Back Cover
 
  Below are the insides of the above incomplete booklet. A number of the stamp panes are missing from between the advertisement pages.  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 

 

 
W4e SB10 1927 2/- Booklet 3,750.00
    Two panes of 6 of ½d George V (K13g, SG446) and three panes of 6 of 1d Dominion Stamp (J7a, SG410). Both values on Cowan Reversed paper. Stamps perforated 14x15, watermark W7. Bars are on the selvedges for both values. This booklet was the only one to have "Kodak" advertisements on the side selvedges, making it easy to identify Cowan Reversed paper.  
 

 

   
W4f SB11 1928 (Mar) 2/- Booklet 3,000.00
    Two panes of 6 of ½d George V (K13f, SG446) and three panes of 6 of 1d Field Marshall Stamp (K15a, SG468). Both values on Cowan paper. Stamps perforated 14, watermark W7. Bars are on the selvedges for both values. There are three versions of this booklet, no advertisements on the panes, with "Parisian" & "Jeyes Fluid", and "Parisian" only.  
 

 

   
W4g SB11 1928 2/- Booklet 4,500.00
    Two panes of 6 of ½d George V (K13e, SG446) and three panes of 6 of 1d Field Marshall Stamp (K15a, SG468). Both values on Cowan paper. ½d stamps perforated 14 x 15 & 1d stamps 14, watermark W7. Bars are on the selvedges for both values. There are no advertisements on any of the panes.  
 

 

   
W4h SB12 1930 2/- Booklet 2,700.00
    Four panes of 6 of 1d Field Marshall Stamp (K15a, SG468), on Cowan paper, perforated 14, watermark W7. Bars are on the selvedges. "Parisian" advertisements on all of the panes.  
 

   

 
W4j SB12 1934 2/- Booklet 2,550.00
    Four panes of 6 of 1d Field Marshall Stamp (K15b, SG468), on Cowan paper, perforated 14 x 15, watermark W7. Bars are on the selvedges. "Parisian" advertisements on all of the panes.  
 

 

   

 


An ½d pair from W4a showing side bars.

An ½d pane from W4d showing "Abdulla" advertisements.

An ½d pane from W4f showing "Parisian" advertisements.
 


A 1d pane from W4f showing "Parisian" advertisements.

 

 

       

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