Stamp Desk / Pounds and dollars
New Zealand, 1882 (6d, brown)
Queen Victoria in profile inside a lettered frame.
Illustration of a historical stamp for learning, shown at screen size. Not valid for postage.
How to read it
NEW ZEALAND in the frame around Queen Victoria.
- 1NEW ZEALAND
- 2SIXPENCE
- 3POSTAGE & REVENUE
- Inscription
- NEW ZEALAND · POSTAGE & REVENUE · SIXPENCE
- Meaning
- POSTAGE & REVENUE: the same stamps paid postage and tax fees. The value is in pence or shillings.
- Issued by
- New Zealand
- Today
- New Zealand Flag of New Zealand
- Year
- 1882. First issued 1 April 1882 (the specimen’s exact printing is not identified).
- Made by
- Thomas De La Rue & Co., London (original 1874 side-face design); W H Norris (1882 design adaptation and Postage and Revenue lettering); W R Bock (engraver of the seven original 1882 values)
One fact
Each value of the 1882 set had its own frame; the sixpence writes its value down both sides.
Source and public-domain rule
New Zealand Crown copyright, at most 100 years. A New Zealand government (Crown) stamp made for the Post and Telegraph Department and issued in 1882: Crown copyright lasts at most 100 years, so it ended by 1982. Stamps made for New Zealand’s Post and Telegraph Department are Crown works. Under the Copyright Act 1994, s. 26, Crown copyright in a work made by a Crown employee or under contract lasts at most 100 years from the end of the year it was made (older Crown terms may have ended sooner). Stamps issued before 1926 are therefore out of copyright. Legal sources: Copyright Act 1994 (New Zealand), s. 26, IPONZ (New Zealand Intellectual Property Office).
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