Portrait of Hausburg as found in The Philatelic Record 1904, page 26-28, under 'Notable Philatelists'.
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Portrait of Hausburg as found in The Philatelic Record 1904, page
26-28, under 'Notable Philatelists'.
I've often seen imperforate blocks of the first New Zealand stamps in the colour black. They are sometimes referred to as Hausburg (sometimes wrongly written as 'Hausberg') reprints and sometimes they are called 'proofs'. They seem to have been made in 1906. Leslie Leopold Rudolph Hausburg (1872-1917 famous for his book 'The postage stamps and telegraph stamps of British India of 1907) went to New Zealand and discovered the original plates of these stamps. From these plates reprints were made for him. See also http://www.nzstamps.org.uk/chalon/reprint/index.html. Example such reprints:
2 p black Hausburg reprint and a block of four 1 Sh Hausburg
reprints
I've also seen the 4 p and 6 p of these Hausburg reprints, the 1 p and 3 p should also exist (all in black). I've even seen a whole sheet of 240 stamps of the 2 p black.
These reprints are relatively common (230,000 were printed according to the above mentioned source).
Hauburg reprint in black of the 1 a India stamp from (made in
1909?).