New Zealand Proof?

I'm looking for some info on this stamp. According to the paper it's attached to, it's a proof. Scotts shows nothing about it. Is it real and if it is, is it valuable?

I've got a pair just like that. They are in fact early proofs and printed in black on hard thick paper similar to cardboard. I can't help you more than that I found out by asking like you did. I've seen them on ebay selling for $10.00-$20.00.

It's more correct to call these labels; they were a private speculation printed long after the Chalon era by a philatelic writer named Hansberg, using plates licensed by the NZ government, with the intention of tipping them into his book about New Zealand stamps. But the book was never published. Some of the remainders were then sold in bulk to Bela Sekula, "a former Hungarian dealer and forger" living in Monaco.

Additional remainders were sold to Colin McNaught, a Wellington NZ stamp dealer who paid 5 cents each for all the remaining stock. Herman Herst notes that they were offered as approval premiums for 10 cents each in the 1950s. The trade does not consider them proofs, and they are extremely common, showing up in many old collections.

Varro Tyler of Linn's wrote up this history, referring to an article in Stamps magazine of April 17, 1982, and further quoting Herst, who wrote the original article.

That sounds about right. The ones I have didn't strike me as good enough to be a proof. They seem a little crude.

I recently saw about 100 of these, which included a block of 50.