A Visit to the New Zealand Government Printing Bureau (1913)
[I discovered this interesting article by H. Smyth, Editor of the Australian Stamp Journal and originally published in the English philatelic journal, The Postage Stamp, 4 April, 1914.] During my stay in Wellington in November I was accorded the privilege of ...
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Advertisement
Some stamps have been issued having an advertisement printed on the back. The most well-known are certain Queen Victoria issues of New Zealand, but some British stamps were also printed experimentally. Modern self-adhesives from Sierra Leone have advertisements printed on ...
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Air Mails of New Zealand
This site is dedicated to the members of the Air Mail Society of New Zealand who have painstakingly compiled over many years the aviation postal history of NZ in the following publications: "Airmails of NZ - Internal Flights 1897-1955, "Airmails ...
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Bananas and Earthquakes in Jamaica
Given the cost of bananas in Australia at present, I was fascinated by this recently acquired Jamaican postcard. It was written in early 1925 and addressed to a young man in New Zealand. It bears an interesting slogan: COME TO JAMAICA: ...
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Invercargill Post Office, New Zealand, 1908
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
London Prints
Refers to printings of colonial stamps printed in London as distinct from paintings of the same stamps, which were made in the colony itself. Among the better known are the early issues of New Zealand, South Africa and Western Australia. ...
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
New Zealand and Dependencies ‑ A Philatelic Bibliography
New Zealand and Dependencies ‑ A Philatelic Bibliography by David R Beech, Allan P Berry and Robin M Startup, ISBN 0476-00516-7, hard cover xvi+288 pages, available from Allan P. Berry, 238 Waikiekie Road, Thames, New Zealand. Email apberry@wave.co.nz Price NZ$80, ...
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
New Zealand Map (1935)
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
New Zealand Musings (June 2003)
Pennfield Ridge N.B - No 2 (ANS) The first cover pictured was sent from Pennfield Ridge N.B. in June 1943 by a Sergeant of the RNZAF. The air base officially opened for training on July 21, 1941. It was part of the ...
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
New Zealand Musings (June 2004)
It has been a few issues since I have had the opportunity to write this column. Whilst in New Zealand I was able to conduct research into a number of the covers that I had put aside. If you enjoyed this ...
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
New Zealand Post
New Zealand Post Limited was formed on 1 April 1987 as a State-Owned Enterprise from the privatization of the New Zealand Post Office, a government department. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...New Zealand: The Wellington Post Office (1973)New ...
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
New Zealand Society of Great Britain
The New Zealand Society of Great Britain exists for the study of the stamps and postal history of New Zealand and its Dependencies. External links Official website: The New Zealand Society of Great Britain If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Royal ...
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
New Zealand’s Revenue Stamps
Revenue stamps were introduced in New Zealand with the first series of imperforate long type Queen Victoria stamps inscribed stamp duty in 1867, and were finally removed from sale in early 1958 when the final series (the 1957-8) of social ...
Monday, February 8th, 2010
New Zealand: The Wellington Post Office (1973)
This article, originally published in the "New Zealand Stamp Collector" (June 1973), gives an interesting history of the former Wellington Post Office, as it was about to be pulled down. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...New Zealand PostAustralia: ...
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Nzstamps.org.uk
Nzstamps.org.uk has information and scans on New Zealand stamps from the QV Chalon Heads up to KGVI. A major part of the site is devoted to airmail flight covers from the 1930s and the development of the Imperial Airways Eastern ...
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Oceania Map (Strand Album 1908)
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Perfins of New Zealand and Australia
In 1858, Joseph Sloper of London was granted Letters Patent for the process of perforating holes in the pattern of letters or insignia, and for the perforating apparatus to produce them, as a means of marking cheques and other documents ...
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand
The premium international society for collectors of the stamps and postal history of New Zealand and her Dependencies. Official Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand website: http://www.rpsnz.org.nz/ If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...New Zealand Society of Great BritainRoyal Philatelic ...
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
S.S. Wairarapa Shipwreck on Route from Sydney to Auckland 1894
On Monday, October 29, 1894, the S.S. Wairarapa, with more than 230 passengers aboard, besides the crew, crashed on to rocks at Miner's Head on Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand. Captain McIntosh, the master, and ...
Sunday, February 21st, 2010
Sir Edmund Hillary: A Retrospective
Sir Edmund Hillary, Mountaineer, Explorer, Statesman, Philanthropist died on 11th January 2008 aged 88. This New Zealand mint pair of stamps was issued in 2003 for the 50th anniversary of the Conquest of Everest. If you enjoyed this article, you might ...
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Society of Australasian Specialists/Oceania
"The Society of Australasian Specialists was founded in July 1936 by a small group of collectors interested in Australasian philately. In 1965, the American Society of Australian Philatelists, later to become Oceania, Inc. was established for the same purpose as ...
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
The Evolution of the Penny Postage in New Zealand
“The Antiquarian” This article is based on a paper by W. Joliffe, read before the Philatelic Society of New Zealand (October 5th, 1911). It includes extremely useful early postal rates for New Zealand: The first official reference to postage stamps in New ...
Friday, April 11th, 2008
The Pleasures of Stamp Collecting (1975)
[This article originally appeared in the New Zealand Stamp Collector, the official journal of the Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand. It is republished by kind permission of the Society.] Investment The Royal Philatelic Society was privileged recently to hear an interesting ...
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
The Politics of Printing in Stamp Design and Production
Previous articles have examined the stamp production of a number of stamp printing companies. This article is intended to be a look over a variety of matters dealing with the production of stamps and the subject of the designs. Its ...
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
The Postal History of World War II Mail Between New Zealand and Switzerland
The Postal History of World War II Mail Between New Zealand and Switzerland by Robin M. Startup FRPSL FRPSNZ and Charles J. LaBlonde CPhH; ISBN 0-9085887-3-9; soft cover spiral binding; iv + 131 pages; published 2005 by the Postal History ...
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
The ‘Chalon’ Head Issues of New Zealand
Bill Lloyd-Smith. Ken Lynch, the author of The ‘Chalon’ Head Issues of New Zealand, now in its fifth edition, is clearly an enthusiast. As he says at the end of Volume 2, he has collected the Chalon issues of New Zealand ...
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Victoria Land (1913)
I discovered this article in "The Postage Stamp" (1913). I have read through literally thousands of philatelic articles and have barely seen any reference to these issues. It gives good historical background to the stamps and their postal usage. Collectors ...
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
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