NEWSLETTER OF THE ROYAL
PHILATELIC SOCIETY OF NZ
ROYAL
LINES
www.rpsnz.org.nz
Vol.46 No 8
September 2007
1 September Meeting - IMPORTANT CHANGES
The next meeting will be
the combined meeting with the WELLINGTON PHILATEUC SOCIETY ON
MONDAY 3
SEPTEMBER commencing at 7.30pm. It
will be held at the WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ROOMS, GROUND FLOOR,
The doors will be
manned from 7.15pm.
NOTE: As the meeting is at a different venue and day, the library will
not be open as usual.
Programme:
Speaker.: Paul Wales on his award winning collection
of 1970 Pictorials
2 August Meeting
President, Brian Vincent,
reminded us that Huttpex is being held from 31 August
to 2 September at the
Items.of
interest.
Brian
Vincent had several PSE's from alternative postal
operators including Petes Post, Fastway
Post and DX Mail along with the rather drab NZ Post effort. Neil Fenwick
brought some Huttpex posters for distribution. Also a 6s 3d cover including 6 copies of the 1940 1s Kauri, 1942 to
the
Geoff Rickards had a number
of items from our upcoming postal bid sale: a cover to Utiku
that bounced between there and Taihape four times, a
collection of local posts stamps on several leaves including from Turkey, Swiss
hotels, Suez Canal, Danube Black Sea Post, Canada's Caribou Express, New
Hebrides-Australia Shipping Co., Christmas Island Plantation Mailboat Service, Coolgardie
Cycle Express, a GWR airmail stamp, and UK local authority seals. A couple of
examples of cinderellas from
the 1924 British Expedition to Mt Everest including a rare example (one of
seven existing) cancelled at the Rangbuk camp.
Des Hurley had an example of-the Regent franking
machine of Armstrong & Springhalls, a genuine use
of the forces mail envelope from
Doug Tennant had a wonderful label on the back of a
Adam
Miller on RoyaltyTax Stamps.
Adam
cranked up an old gramophone and played a 78 record 'Airmail Special' while he
set up his display, a very novel 'in the mood' introduction. He then handed out
a diagram 'Royalties on Music-Simplified' showing all the flows of royalties
between composer, record company, publisher, radio station and performer.
His first frame showed
the breadth of what was available. There are four main classes of issuer – copyright
organisation, record company, music publisher and composer. There are 220
different issuers known so far, 100 in the
Stamps involved
complex organisation and accounting, and so the use of these faded away. The
peak was in the late 20's and
early 30's. Certainly by WWII much had disappeared, although for special
purposes stamps are still used today - an example being stamps for use on
imported CD's. Some examples from the
The second frame was an in-depth study of Allen & Co. from 1923 to
the mid 30's. This included constant flaws, 'Anvil' and 'C-line' with a number
of other flaws on display. Adam said there are still many mysteries to be solved.
The next frame showed various usage on piece including copyright stamps on
piano rolls, record labels and sleeves, cylinder boxes, sheet music and a book
and record (post)card. An example of a
Another frame held special
items. These included sheet music with links to stamp designs - William
Wallace's stamp designs based on his sheet music and a Feldman stamp with his
portrait matched to similar on sheet music. These two amongst
Adam's most exciting finds. There were also some mint sheets and blocks
including some from a company’s archives and some Greek and EDIFO blocks,
patent stamps from
The next frame was what Adam called 'Maximaphily'
- but in this case the stamps had a strong tie between the item, its label or
sleeve and the stamp that was affixed. For example a Cinch stamp
on. a Cinch label. It was a variation on the 16 page
frame but with records and piano rolls instead. Examples were from Argentina,
Australia, GB, Germany and Italy.
Finally
Adam had an assortment of disks (Collecting 78's). These included a Berliner issued in 1898, some 3
1/2 inch records and postcards with records pressed in. Also
an Aretino record with a propriety 3inch spindle hole. He commented that
records are collected for their labels, the artists or tunes showing an example
of a embossed gold foil label of 1905 (lousy music) and picture disks like
Vogue with pretty pictures but indifferent music. Adverts were represented by
some Cadbury chocolate examples and an aluminium disk which carried a warning
not to use steel needles but cactus or fibre ones! Adam also had an example of
the first record recorded and pressed in NZ. This was on the TANZA label No 1. 'Blue Smoke' and an Elvis Presley 78.
In answer to questions Adam said there were not many collectors
worldwide as yet but he has had some exciting finds. He said a lot of records
disappeared during WWII when they were turned in to salvage the shellac so
consequently pre war material is very rare. Brian Vincent proposed a vote of
thanks to Adam commending him for distilling a complex area to make it much
more understandable.
3 Volume
IX
Don't
forget to order your copy of the award winning Postage Stamps of New Zealand
Volume IX. Priced at $140.00 plus packaging and postage this volume, the latest
in the handbook series, covers all aspects of postal stationery. Contact the
office for details and an order form.
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4 Huttpex 2007 Final reminder.
This big event is just around the corner and is being held in the Lower
Hutt Town Hall Complex, 31 August to 2 September. The
organisers are now calling for volunteer assistance over the period of the
exhibition. If you have time available then volunteers are required to set up
on Thursday 30 August and dismantle after closing at 4pm on Sunday 2 September.
Or if you cannot do this then maybe you could help out during the exhibition by
manning the front desk, greet visitors or help as security, roaming the halls.
Please contact Sue de Lange at the office if you can help out. All volunteers
will be contacted prior o the event. Your help will be much appreciated. For
other information on the exhibition go to www.nzpf.org.nz or email
Huttpex@xtra.co.nz or PO Box 30-657, Lower Hutt. Huttpex is to be the first
national exhibition to offer the First Day Cover class. This class has been
included in Australian National Exhibitions since 1998.
5 November
Postal
Material
for this sale should be lotted and sent with covering
list to the office no later than August 30th. If you can send an additional
copy of your list by email using the template, this would be much appreciated.
If you require a lotting template please contact Sue
de Lange at the office. The sale date is set for 8 November.
6 Subscriptions
for 2007/08 Last reminder for rebate
Remember,
to save the $5.00 on the subscription, don't forget to send your remittance
back by the 31st of August together with the invoice, email address and your
new postcode. (The Royal's postcode is 6140).
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newsletter is always happy to publish any items of interest you may have so
please either fax material to the Editor on 04 971 8537 or email to the
Society's office. As usual, we reserve the right to publish.