Need Help On This Weird Stamp.

Hi guys...Take a look at this stamp..I have no idea what it is or where it is from...It looks like a "life insurance stamp"...???

New Zealand.

Is it a real stamp, cause it looks like an advertising stamp of some sort..??

just playing around looking up what is thrown out here.

wow there were a lot of those different issues, government life insurance. New Zealand - Gov. life insurance stamps (1891 - 1981).

http://www.stampworld.com/en/stamps/New-Zealand/

(under the year box, click on the first tab in search box (cat.) then click search and the government life insurance stamps pop up)

Dosent seem to search...no button to click...oh well.

GOT IT TO WORK..THANKS

i have to use my zoom out button to see the search button, then you can reset after you get to where going


here is google images:

https://www.google.com/search?q=:+N...1093&bih=496

Scott identifies as New Zealand, Life Insurance (BOB), OY3 or OY9, depending on watermark and perf.

'N' in the upper left-hand corner and the 'Z' in the upper right-hand corner form the initials for 'New Zealand'. The first issues of this series from 1891 through 1902 contained the initials V.R. about the lighthouse which stood for Victoria Regina (the Reign of Queen Victoria). Queen Victoria died in 1901, but it was not until 1905 when the design for this series was changed to remove the 'V.R.'

All of the stamps in this series have a lighthouse as the theme. This is because it was the trademark of the New Zealand Government Life Insurance Company.

The set is interesting because it is a private company that was authorized by the government to issue and use their own stamps which were valid through the postal system. In 1989, Tower Life bought out the National Insurance Company of New Zealand, and that brought an end to the use of these stamps.

WOW...Thanks guys for all that information...So, probably my stamp is around late 1800's...??

The postmark may be 1898, probably June.

Don't forget V.R. = Queen Victoria.