ISSUE 187 - July 3, 2026 - Stamp News Online Magazine
Yesterday in Mekeel’s
Great Barrier Island’s Pigeon Post
No stamps of recent issue have enjoyed the celebrity of those of Great Barrier Island. By reason of the novel purpose which the stamps serve, they are distinctive in the eyes of philatelists, while a sensational, and for a time, successful counterfeiting of the first stamp issue attracted added attention to the stamps.
A plethora of pigeon posts whose first and chief office, viewed from this distant view-point, seems to be the issue of stamps, is now threatened; a second company has already issued stamps and we are told that other pigeon posts will soon . . .
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