Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand

Items of Interest

This is an index to the Items of Interest held on this site. It is intended as a growing record of the more unusual or famous New Zealand (and other regional) stamps and postal history that come our way. If you have an item that would fit in here, please contact the Webmaster.

Many items start out as lots in our regular Postal Bid Sales. Items prefixed are articles from the New Zealand Stamp Collector. Items shown as 'Actual Size' display this way at 800 x 600 screen resolution. They are scanned at 75dpi, and saved as JPG format with 80% quality.

Some items are identified by CP (Campbell Paterson) catalogue references.

New Zealand

Postage Stamps

1855-72 Full Face Queens (107k)

1874 First Sidefaces Proofs (250k)

1890 Railways Newpapers (60k)

1898 Pictorials - essays from the 1895 Competition

1900 6d pair imperf vertically (12k)

1901 Boer War Commemorative Re-entry R2/12 (160k)

1926 1d Field Marshall Booklet pane proofs (107k)

1929 Health Proof pair (12k)

1949 Health Flaws (80k) Bandaged finger, Wristwatch, No Dot, Extra flower.

1953 Royal Visit 3d re-entry (130k)

1958 QEII Stars overprint error Plate Block (25k)

1979 4c on 8c Rose missing black error sheet

1996 Health "Teddy Bear" error (105k)

Revenues

Land & Deeds stamps 1877-81 (47k)

Law Courts stamps 1876-81(70k)

Cinderellas

A. Eady & Co - mechanical copyright stamp & shop labels (200k)

Diplomatic Mail - Labels of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (98k)

Government Tourist Office Publicity Labels 1937 (72k)

HAYs 1940 train poster stamps (45k)

Mechanical Royalty stamps - the 1925 'key' types of the Australian publishers (25k)

Post Office Savings Bank Thrift stamp 1934 (65k)

Post Office Telegraph stamps 1912-20 & 1942-? (170k)

Road Parcel Labels Some samples from New Zealands Bus Services. (150k)

Queenstown Publicity Labels 1940 (72k)

Postal History

1901 Lettercard First Day use (87k)

1902 OPSO Treasury Free, Mourning envelope (26k)

1906 OPSO Treasury Free, "PENNY POSTAGE" slogan envelope (33k)

King George VI 3d on 2d orange PSE, inverted imprint (30k)

Some much-redirected covers ":

  1896 cover from Cape of Good Hope to New Zealand, very much re-directed (81k)
  1929 local cover (16 cancellations) (40k)
  1959 local cover (10 cancellations) (40k)
  1960 Xmas FDC (8 cancellations) (30k)

Early New Zealand Journals

Other Countries