Matariki IV 2011 Hei Matau (1 June 2011)

The fourth set in the Maori New Year series, Matariki 2011 features Hei Matau, decorative Maori fish hooks worn around the neck. Traditionally, Matau, Maori fish hooks were an important aspect of Maori life and many Maori fishermen had their own lucky Matau which they would wear around their necks for safekeeping. Today Hei Matau are a Taonga, a Maori cultural treasure. There are six designs as follows:

60c Pounamu (Maori greenstone, New Zealand jade) 2011

60c Manaia dating from 1500 to 1800, made from whalebone.

$1.20 Inanga around 1800, made from inanga, milky white pounamu

$1.90 Te Puia 2011 made from pounamu, whalebone, feathers, flax fibre and paua.

$2.40 Pukengaki around 1800, made from wood and bone.

$2.90 Tohora from 1750 to 1850, made from whalebone.

        The six stamps are self-adhesive and come from sheets of 25, a se-tenant block of six and a se-tenant strip of six, only available from the Presentation Pack. The six stamps are also available in a gummed miniature sheet, Matariki 2011 Te Matau O Maui-Tikitiki-a-Taranga. They were designed by Len Hetet of Whakatane and printed by Southern Colour Print Ltd by offset lithography in the four process colours. The stamps are printed on Tullis Russell PSA red phosphor stamp paper 220 gsm, with die-cut perfs, perf 10. Stamps from the sheets of 25 are vertical mesh and have vertical and horizontal roulettes as an aid to separation from the sheets; stamps from the se-tenant block of six are without roulettes and are horizontal mesh. The gummed miniature sheets are printed on Tullis Russell 104gsm red phosphor gummed stamp paper, perf 13½.

Definitive Reprints The following definitive Kiwi reprint blocks have been released January-May 2011.

PE46a           10c Central Otago 3-Kiwis  

PE58a           $1.20 Mitre Peak, Milford Sound 1-Kiwi

PE59a           $1.90 Queenstown 1-Kiwi and 2-Kiwis  

PE60a           $2.40 Lake Rotorua 1-Kiwi and 2-Kiwis  

PE61a           $2.90 Kaikoura 1-Kiwi

W121a(Y)      $9.00 Russell booklet (PE53b) 2-Kiwis.  

Unusually we also have a Commemorative reprint:  

S1203a          60c All Blacks 1-Kiwi

WE ARE CONTINUALLY BUYING.

The current situation in the New Zealand stamp market worldwide, means that we urgently require new stocks of superior and particularly specialised properties.   

THE MARKET HAS BEGUN TO MOVE!!

        The following list is not exhaustive but will serve to give an idea of what we are looking for at present: 

REMEMBER WE PAY INSTANT CASH.

Full Face Queens:  

We are looking for items particularly unused and in used of fine appearance. In the used appearance and rarity are the two main criteria which means we can consider scarcer items with lesser faults right through to the superfine full four marginal. We can consider individual items and rarities. For instance, in the London Prints we will seriously consider anything of reasonable appearance.

First and Second Sidefaces:   

Unhinged mint are needed in particular and as with the Chalons, used material of good appearance for the period. Overall condition is of somewhat more importance. We will be happy to entertain specialised collections of this group.

Adsons:  Particularly in demand.

1898 Pictorials:

Unhinged mint are required particularly and in the 2/- and

5/-we need UHM and used of good appearance. Any specialised material is of interest, particularly rarities. We will seriously consider specialised collections of this group.

King Edward VII, King George V:

Any specialised material is required and fine examples in particular.

1d Dominion:

Any variety material at all or Postal History relating to this issue is desperately required. Particularly the scarcer papers and plate varieties are needed in mint unhinged and used.

1935 Pictorials: 

Virtually any specialised material at all is required, particularly mint unhinged. We are looking for a major specialised collection of this issue to purchase and will travel to value – if necessary around the world depending on the scale of the collection.

Modern Errors from 1960 Pictorials to the Present. 

Any major varieties particularly listed material, the more spectacular the better. Our demand for Modern Errors is insatiable and similarly we are looking for a medium-sized to major collection of these issues to purchase outright.        

        Write in the first instance to Warwick Paterson in our Auckland Office for immediate response and if appropriate expression of interest and suggestions about working through a valuation and achieving a sale.

Campbell Paterson Ltd, PO Box 5555, Auckland 1141, NZ

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