New Zealand: Cancellation Types & Postmark Discussion

Hi Neil ( philatel2 )

Thanks for your interest in this area.

Here is a bit of what Wooders has to say about the 'J' class cancellation :




From this he states only that the Time Indica replaced the actual time part of the older 'C' class cancel. And that it was to show " the time period the mail was cleared".

Could they be 1 value per 2 hours  ie 1 = 6am to 7 = 6pm ?

I am not certain exactly how it worked but would have been uniform throughout the Post Office network I would have thought.

Perhaps Clayton, Klem or Philip would know more precisely.

Let's see what feedback we get on this.



Dave

I have been looking around the place a little bit over the past couple of days but nothing definitive has turned up yet as to how exactly the time indica worked on these cancels.

I have looked thru' my copies of the RPSNZ volumes that deal a fair bit with the cancels used in NZ, that being volumes 2, 3 & 7, but nothing conclusive yet.

Most of the 'J' class cancels I have seen pictures of online seem to show fairly low numbers like '1' or '2'. Other numbers have been seen but the higher you go the less you seem to see them.

I wonder if many postmasters actually bothered to change this number during the course of the day even!

Here are a few I have seen, although not much seen past about '6' !











I will continue to look around for more info and will certainly pass it on if found.



Dave

This nice little cover from 1902, purchased on eBay for $8, arrived today. The originating PO is Koeke in the Whanganui postal district, open from 1 Jan 1900 until 16 May 1918. This 'H Class' cancel is rated 8 by Wooders; likely very scarce on a cover.

New Zealand Postmarks : HAKAHAKA




New Zealand Stamp Monthly
October 1968
Author: A F Watters.

BTW, The 'Bombay' in that subscribers place of residence is South of Auckland, near Pukekohe.



Dave

Nice work Dave, DK

I looked at possibly 2000 + wellington postmarks, from auction catalogues etc, without success
"duplex postmarks"  are a NZ scarcity it seems, apart from the "070" Wellington duplex, which are numerous.

Also,

In the RPSNZ vol.3 reference work is this picture of the use of the 'hammer cancel' - in this case it looks like it was still in use in the 1950s-60s period - according to the stamps on the mail they are cancelling.






Dave

Hi ... I assume a BPO is a permanant facility at an established base and an FPO is a mobile location in the field during a deployment? APO would be an 'army' post office? and an MPO a post office for other military units ... Air Force? Navy? etc. 

Or, in NZ do they mean something else?