• L13 Capt Cook Summary of Issues                  
• L13 Capt Cook Timeline of Issues
• L13 Notes from Vol 2 The Postage Stamps of New Zealand
• L13 Notes from Campbell Paterson
• L13a 1935 May 1 Original issue First Perforation with Single watermark W7
• L13b 1935 Original issue Second Perforation Watermark W7
• L13c 1936 Aug Change to Watermark W.8
• L13d 1939 March Change of perforation, watermark W8
• L13e 1941 July Wartime Issue Waterlow Print & Perf
• L13f 1942 Wartime Issue Coarse paper,De La Rue Print & Waterlow Perf
• L13g 1942 Sept Wartime Issue Coarse paper, change of perforation
• LO13 Notes on Official Issue from R G Collins
• LO13c 1937 May Official Overprint Change to Watermark W8
• LO13d 1939 May Official Overprint Change of Perforation
• LO13e 1942 March Official Overprint Wartime Issue Waterlow Print & Perf
• LO13f 1942 May Official Overprint Wartime Issue Coarse paper De La Rue Print & Waterlow Perf
• LO13g 1944 Official Overprint on L13g

The design depicted the landing of Captain James Cook at Poverty Bay on October 8, 1769, during his first voyage in the Pacific. The artist was Mr T H Jenkin, of Invercargill.

With one exception, the re-cutting to the right of the foremast was extensive and, no attempt was made to follow a standard pattern, the differences in the magnitude and in the position of the re cut line enable each of the impressions to be identified and the stamp to be “plated”. In R.J.G Collin’s study, enlarged illustrations of the rigging were produced and these allow each stamp, printed from Plate 1 to be identified. Major flaws will identify some of the stamps without the necessity of further evidence.

The outstanding feature of this Plate is that because of the flaws which developed when the die was hardened, before plate 1 was put to press, the engraver had done much “touching up”, and it is therefore possible to identify each of the 120 impressions.

PLATE 1 THE 2/- Pictorial of 1935-1942 by R.J.G. Collins, 1951  

Updated 6/7/2016