HOME   > STAMP SITES  > LIGHTHOUSE STAMPS > CATALOGUE NUMBERS

Covers / Catalogue Numbers 
This page is not a catalogue but an aide for working between numbering systems. For the value and colour descriptions you will need to go to the catalogues themselves. Note that italicised numbers in the Scott list cover several different Stanley Gibbons numbers. Numbers in the Campbell Patterson list rendered "a/b/c" are where several of their numbers relate to one Gibbons number.

This table is not warranted as exact.

Modern Covers: The advice of one expert is that even modern covers with insurance stamps are quite rare and stamps should not be removed from them.

 Here are some typical commercial covers. (Thumbnails)

A series from around 1900:
1900-1.JPG (43719 bytes)1900-2.JPG (70606 bytes)1900-3.JPG (53878 bytes)1900-4.JPG (53857 bytes)1900-5.jpg (43798 bytes)1900-6.jpg (45284 bytes)1900-7.jpg (22600 bytes)1900-8.jpg (39830 bytes)

cover1d.jpg (18731 bytes)  1948       1952.jpg (11229 bytes)  1952         cc.jpg (27450 bytes)  1963          cover.jpg (39215 bytes) 1985, 25c

govtlife 002.jpg (65270 bytes) 1986, 25c    govtlife 003.jpg (81614 bytes) 1986, 30c           govtlife 001.jpg (64820 bytes) 1989, 40c

Mail tags also come on the market  tag.jpg (45702 bytes)

Campbell Patterson Stanley Gibbons Scott

1881- 98  VR  vr.jpg (4250 bytes)

p 12x11½ Wmk  NZ and star
X1a L1 OY 1
X2a L2 OY 2
X3a L3 OY 3
X4a L4 OY 4
X5a L5 OY 5
X6a L6 OY 6

p 10
X1b L7 OY 1
X2c L8 OY 2
X3c L9 OY 3

p 11 and 10 compound
X1c L10 OY 1
X2d L11 OY 2

mixed perfs 10 and 11
X1c (y) L12 OY 3

p 11
X1e L13 OY 1
X2f L14 OY 2
X3d L15 OY 3

1902-04
Wmk Single NZ and star sideways

p 11
X1g L16 OY 7
X2h L17 OY 8
X3d L18 OY 9

perf compound of 11 and 14
X1h L19 OY 7
X2j L20 OY 9

 

1905-6 Redrawn without VR  novr.jpg (4637 bytes)

Wmk Single NZ and star sideways

p 11
X10a L21 OY 17

p 14
X8a L22 OY 12

perf compound of 11 and 14
X8b L23 OY 12
 From 1906 to 1913 there were no insurance stamps. The office used "Official" overprinted stamps.

1913 New colours
Wmk Single NZ and star upright
De La Rue paper p 14 x 15
X7a L24 OY 10
X8c L24 OY 13
X9a L26 OY 15
X9b L27 OY 16
X10b L28 OY 18
X10c L29 OY 19
X11a L30 OY 20
X12a L31 OY 22

Cowan paper p 14 x 15
X7b L31a OY 10
X8d L31b OY 13 

Cowan paper p 14

X7c L32 OY 10
X8e L33 OY 13
X10d L34 OY 19
X11b L35 OY 21
X12b L36 OY 23

Wiggins Teape paper p 14X15
X7d L36a OY 10
X8f L36b OY 14
X12c L36c OY 22

1944-47 Wmk multiple NZ and star p 14 x15

  
X7e L37 OY 24
X8g L38 OY 25
X10e L39 OY 26
X11c L40 OY 27
X12d L41 OY 28

 

1947  

X13a/b L42 OY 29
X14a L43 OY 30
X15a L44 OY 31
X16a L45 OY 32
X17a L46 OY 33
X18a/b L47 OY 34
X19a L48 OY 35
X20a L49 OY 36

 

1967 Decimal overprints

X21a/b/c L50 OY 37
X22a L51 OY 38
X23a/b L52 OY 39
X24a L53 OY 40
X25a/b/c L54 OY 41
X26a/b/c L55 OY 42

 

1969 Decimal - Centenary 

X27a L56 OY 43
X28a L57 OY 44
X29a/b L58 OY 45
X30a/b L59 OY 46
X31a L60 OY 47
X32a L61 OY 48
X33a/b/c L62 OY 49

1978
X34a L63 OY 50

 

1981   

X35a L64 OY 51
X35a L65 OY 52
X37a L66 OY 53
X38a L67 OY 54
X39a L68 OY 55
X40a L69 OY 56

  Last Updated: 31 March, 2012