#324254 Rare First Day Cover 1909 Edward VII 2d solo value Cover J E Hounsell Nelson First day of issue 8.11.1909 - Rare, perfect date stamp, ...All Items are available for Direct Sale unless stated otherwise, you can email us directly via the below Contact Us Link or you can place an order via our web site www.completestamp.com or simply click the item Link above. All items are Guaranteed to meet description, Payment options include Direct Credit, Paypal, Visa, Mastercard, Cash. Postage and Insurance options will be quoted on receipt of your order. Deal with confidence, members of the NZSDA....This item is Part of The Frank Parkinson Collection currently being broken up for sale...FRANK PARKINSON Like most Kiwi youths I had a collection mainly made up from the packets bought from local bookshops and by taking stamps off every envelope. It was not until November 1999 that I started to become a keen philatelist. It was then I decided to concentrate on re-entries, retouches and common printing variations on the sheets. This led to collecting sheets in order to study the variations in the stamps and to consequently write up the details to enable other collectors to distinguish where the variations occurred in the sheets.The most interesting area to get my attention was the 1901 Penny Universal IssueI have now made studies of the following:Universals – London, Local Plates 1, 2 and 3, Reserve Plate, Booklet Plate, Waterlow Plate and have nearly completed the Surface Plate. Dominions – Plates 12 and 13 and three booklet Plates 35, and the 1st and 2nd Electros, 1898 1d Taupo - others in the 1898 issue are still in progress, 1912 Postage Due, and the 1889 Postage Due, 1900 Mt Cook still more study to do, 1925 Dunedin Exhibition, 1967 3c Puarangi, 1909 Edward VII. While looking for errors, I have built up a comprehensive collection of almost all the possible variations you can find in all of our New Zealand stamps. The printing errors I have collected include all variations, colour shifts, corner folds, doctor blades, double and triple colour prints, miss-perfs, missing colours, offsets on back, paper creases, paper curl flaws, paper reel joins, etc, etc. How I have managed to do all this while playing bowls two or three times a week leaves me wondering why some people have nothing to do when they retire.Frank Parkinson Auckland, New Zealand