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    A New Zealand Chalon Head?

    Apr 09, 2021 3 minutes

    ew Zealand’s first postage stamps, issued in 1855, displayed a striking image of Queen Victoria. The central design derived from an 1838 oil painting by Alfred Edward Chalon which displayed a full-length portrait of the monarch in her state robes at the time of her coronation in 1837. A watercolour sketch of Victoria’s head and shoulders as displayed in the oil painting was later created by artist Edward Corbould; and from it Perkins Bacon’s engraver William Humphrys designed the stamp which was soon spoken of as the Chalon Head. Some collectors, especially in

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