- L14 Mt Egmont Summary of Issues
- L14 Mt Egmont Timeline of Issues
- L14 Notes from Vol 2, The Postage Stamps of New Zealand
- L14a 1935 (May 1) Original issue, with single watermark
- L14b 1935 (Nov) Experimental Wet printing watermark W7
- L14c 1936 Experimental Wet Printing watermark inverted and reversed W7e
- L14d 1936 August Change to watermark W8
- L14e 1941 Wartime Issue Waterlow print and Perf
- L14f 1942 Sept Coarse paper First perforation watermark W8
- L14g 1942 Sept Coarse paper Second Perforation W8
The final stamp of the series depicts Mt Egmont, a snow capped extinct volcano (8260 feet) which dominates the Province of Taranaki. The mountain was named by Captain Cook in honour of the Earl of Egmont, then the first Lord of the Admiralty. Its cap of perpetual snow spreads in winter down to the forest, providing a brilliant colour-contrast to New Zealand’s native trees (green the whole year round). Known to the Maori as “Taranaki” it figures prominently in native mythology*.
Artist: Mr L.C. Mitchell of Wellington Colour Border, golden brown; centre, nigger brown
*Description of New Zealand Pictorial Stamps, May 1st 1935, G.H.Loney, Government Printer, Wellington
New Zealand Stamps 1935-47 Pictorials - A Specialist Collector’s Resource 