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Post by cjd on Jan 19, 2014 16:15:29 GMT
Picked up a four 1-shilling block of KGV recently, with almost all of a rather large parcels cancel from Wellesley Street, presumably in Auckland.  [click to enlarge] This is perf 14x14.5, which might make it SG#430c. If I'm reading SG correctly, the pale orange-red from April, 1924 (#430ca) looks to also be 14x14.5. So, that would make my color choices pale orange-red, or vermilion. |
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Jan 19, 2014 17:39:43 GMT
I'd go orange red (but pale?)
Yes quite a large CDS cancel, the mother of them all, being Australia, that is an absolute whopper.
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Post by barhata on Feb 14, 2014 14:48:04 GMT
So.... I have a fairly good collection of mint pre-decimal Australia housed on the Seven Seas pages, and I finally talked myself into beginning a collection of New Zealand say from 1855 to about 1960. My first thought was to purchase the Seven Seas New Zealand pages. I really like the way that Seven Seas lays out the design (chronological without regard to service type) and I enjoy the descriptive text that accompanies. But, wait.... The Seven Seas pages for 1855-1953 have been out of print forever  . I was able to procure a small collection mounted on an old set of the early Seven Seas pages, but the pages were horribly marked up and stained. Okay, Plan 'B'.... I really like the White Ace pages for the border designs, and their descriptive text is also quite good. But, wait.... White Ace pages do not start until 1955; they never made the early years . Well, back to the drawing board (in my case, the computer designer  ). If I take the White Ace blank page and marry it to the Seven Seas layout...... Ah-Ha! The beginnings of my personal collection of New Zealand.  |
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Post by barhata on Feb 17, 2014 18:53:48 GMT
New Zealand 1938 King George VI Airmail Definitive Issue
This stamp (Scott #228, 1½d brown) was issued subsequent to the other like definitive stamps and was specifically for the 1½d Empire Air Mail Scheme ½ oz. minimum rate. The design differed from the others in the series in having the value stated only once.
The scheme did not survive the start of the war and these stamps were subsequently surcharged 2d (Scott #243). "Official" overprints were made of this stamp (Scott O74) but as it was not a standard internal rate they are quite rare stamps. It was reissued in 1944 (Scott #228B) but in scarlet and was not for airmail, but a standard surface rate.
  
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Mar 5, 2014 18:09:09 GMT
New Zealand Cinderella 1906 International Exhibition Auction Lots of covers / multiples fetch $300 - $500 20 Labels 2 designs x 10 each $75 NZ Postage stamp set of the same exhibition CV $520 The penny claret from that set sold 2013 $19,000 and cover with set of 3 x 1d clarets sold $44,000  |
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Post by rod222 on Apr 4, 2014 4:45:58 GMT
For all those girls that like Creepy Crawlies  Your nightmare cometh .....The Giant Weta   |
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Post by Jen B on Apr 5, 2014 1:54:25 GMT
Oh my Lord! Please keep those in New Zealand.
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Post by Zuzu on Apr 5, 2014 2:38:29 GMT
Your nightmare cometh .....The Giant Weta It looks like a sand cricket on steroids. The almost-seven-year old is simultaneously impressed and creeped out.  |
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Post by jamesw on Apr 5, 2014 2:48:40 GMT
 the 53 year old is too!!! |
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Post by rod222 on Jun 21, 2014 4:28:38 GMT
Jeff ! Received your lovely free gift of NZ Covers, many thanks, lovely stuff and appreciated.  Postmarked "Dominion Road" Dominion Road 1900's (The Architecture, esp the chimney pots, and ballustrading is almost identical to the town I currently live in) wiki  |
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Post by rod222 on Jun 21, 2014 4:36:25 GMT
PS: It occurred to me that perhaps collectors in GB etc, may wonder why the colonies had such wide streets.
They were designed that way so as to enable the Bullock carts to be able to turn around in the street.
Adelaide central city South Australia, is another that comes to mind.
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Post by Jen B on Jun 22, 2014 2:53:05 GMT
They say the same for the streets in Salt Lake City, Utah. That the streets were laid out wide enough for a wagon to turn around on.  |
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Post by rod222 on Nov 20, 2014 1:55:30 GMT
New Zealand FRAMA Stamps (ATM : Automatic Teller Machine) POS : Point of sale stamps Catalog #2 1984 LG Katalog ATM Welt 1999 Thomas Van Loeper.  Example on Philatelically contrived cover Sent and received, Registered by employee of New Zealand post.  |
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Post by rod222 on Nov 24, 2014 2:06:07 GMT
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Post by philatelia on Nov 24, 2014 4:36:45 GMT
The wines from down under have really become popular up here. Almost every restaurant seems to have one on their list. One's I've tried have been pretty good  I am no expert - just enjoy a nice glass of wine with a good meal. Cheers!! Salut!! Prosit!! |
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Post by rod222 on Nov 24, 2014 5:15:27 GMT
The wines from down under have really become popular up here. Almost every restaurant seems to have one on their list. One's I've tried have been pretty good I am no expert - just enjoy a nice glass of wine with a good meal. Cheers!! Salut!! Prosit!! I do not drink alcohol at all, however, recently bought a cheap red wine for cooking ingredient. (you cook off the alcohol) Yikes! Horrible stuff, have learnt my lesson, a cheap wine is a horrible wine. |
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Post by rod222 on Jan 3, 2015 23:57:04 GMT
New Zealand Permit Stamps CAPTAIN COQK and Grey Power  The Philatelic Club  The Error  |
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Post by rod222 on Apr 19, 2015 3:22:31 GMT
Tarapex '86 King Edward Vlll National Philatelic exhibition New Plymouth  |
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Post by zipper on Apr 20, 2015 23:28:20 GMT
New Zealand Squared Circle Cancels.  |
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Post by rod222 on Apr 20, 2015 23:59:04 GMT
New Zealand Squared Circle Cancels. Gore New Zealand  |
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Post by jaysee on Apr 21, 2015 1:21:10 GMT
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Post by rod222 on Apr 21, 2015 2:23:40 GMT
Wow! Nice one. Riverton Icon stumped me. It's the giant Paua Shell. |
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Post by rod222 on May 21, 2015 22:13:32 GMT
New Zealand 1988 Closure/Downsizing of 600 Post Offices of Bank Branches High praise for Aust Post and NZ Post, who still have avenues for enquiry via email. Unlike Canada Post who appear to have an unpenetrable digital wall for email queries. Post Office in question was Kendal New Zealand which defied all Google text strings. Thank you Mr. Andrew McNiven    |
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Post by rod222 on May 21, 2015 22:36:45 GMT
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Post by rod222 on May 29, 2015 2:14:58 GMT
Postal Etiquettes.  |
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Post by Ryan on Sept 25, 2015 6:32:59 GMT
Here are a couple of old revenue stamps from New Zealand that I came across recently. The stamp duty issue was released in 1878 (my copy shows an 1882 cancellation) and can be found in both lilac and blue - the blue stamp is much more common, or at least it's worth less. Usage as a revenue stamp wouldn't make it worth very much, only 75p in my Barefoot. But they were also used postally (Campbell Paterson and other New Zealand catalogues list them as "postal fiscals", although Scott doesn't). If this is in fact a postal cancel, then it has some value - my Campbell Paterson says NZ $60, my Auckland City Stamps says NZ $100, although the centring on my stamp is too poor to match those values. I guess the second one isn't technically a revenue stamp, although revenue stamp dealers do often sell them. It looks like I have the 1890 issue. There was a 1925 issue with the same design but a different wave below the word "newspaper". There's a good booklet available online in PDF format here, and a priced catalogue for these stamps is online as well.  Ryan |
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Post by rod222 on Sept 25, 2015 10:06:49 GMT
RyanI'd suggest that is a genuine postal cancellation, Ryan. Unaware of styles of Telegraph cancels, if any. Pmk : Napier 3rd April 1882
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Post by Londonbus1 on Sept 23, 2018 21:20:57 GMT
A couple more of the beautiful Chalon Head stamps of Queen Victoria. This time from New Zealand. Unchecked for anything except beauty thus far !!  |
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Post by renden on Sept 24, 2018 0:14:01 GMT
LondonBus1
Thanks (again) for putting some "life" and beauties into this thread.....will scan some of mine
I now own the TARAPEX `86 S/S, gift from Rod. It seems he started a lot of threads in TSF but became inactive afterwards, so are some of his threads.....I know he is on another Forum.
René
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Post by Londonbus1 on Oct 13, 2018 19:33:56 GMT
Apparently, in Victorian times, one could ask for Odourless waterproofs.  |
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. I was able to procure a small collection mounted on an old set of the early Seven Seas pages, but the pages were horribly marked up and stained.
). If I take the White Ace blank page and marry it to the Seven Seas layout......
the 53 year old is too!!! 
I am no expert - just enjoy a nice glass of wine with a good meal. Cheers!! Salut!! Prosit!! 
