Links

New Zealand Societies

• The Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand has an online monthly newsletter, an annual auction and a journal published four times a year. Their website contain information on their extensive publications on New Zealand stamps and postal history.
• The New Zealand Philatelic Federation's website includes information about their activities and constituent societies including contact details for all Philatelic Societies in New Zealand.
• The Air Mail Society of New Zealand has a monthly newsletter, regular auctions and has published a series of handbooks on airmail postal history.
• The New Zealand Stamp Collectors Club have a monthly newsletter, monthly meetings in Christchurch and auctions twice a year.
• The Christchurch Philatelic Society publishes the monthly newsletter Captain Coqk and has the largest philatelic library in the Southern Hemisphere.
• The Society of Australasian Specialists/Oceania promotes the study and collection of stamps and postal history of Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.

Societies: Other

• The Pacific Islands Study Circle deals with stamps and postal history of the Pacific Islands. New Zealand Dependencies are covered, but not New Zealand or Australia. Their magazine Pacifica is published four times a year.
• The Royal Philatelic Society London is the oldest philatelic society in the world.
• The Imperial Airways Study Group has a bi-annual publication called The Imperial Airways Gazette which has in-depth articles relating to a wide variety of aspects of the operations of Imperial Airways in the 1920s and 1930s and BOAC in early WW2. It is available via the British Air Mail Society homepage under the heading IA Gazette
• The National Philatelic Society is one of the largest general philatelic societies in Great Britain whose members are drawn from throughout the UK and Overseas. They have an extensive philatelic library that has an online search facility.
• The Great Britain Philatelic Society has uploaded a large number of original source documents including the UPU Conventions source documents from 1874 onwards
• The TPO & Seapost Society deals with Railway and Ship Mail. It has pages on New Zealand Marine P.O.Cancels and a Checklist of New Zealand TPO Marks.
• The Royal Philatelic Society of Canada has an online library of articles which are an excellent example of how the internet can be used to display philatelic information.
• The American Air Mail Society is the world's largest, and second oldest aerophilatelic society. They are publishers of the American Air Mail Catalogue, the monthly Airpost Journal, and many other aerophilatelic publications. The Society provides many services to aerophilatelists.
• The British Air Mail Society (formerly the British Aerophilateic Federation) publish the quarterly journal Air Mail News. As well as meetings in London, there are six regional groups.
• The Malaya Study Group promotes the study of the stamps and postal history of the States of Malaya.

Stamp Details

• The author of this page has built up a collection of New Zealand Stamp Images on many topics including Chalon heads, blitz perforations and early airmail history together with links to other similar sites.
• NZ Post Ltd gives lots of information about the operations of the New Zealand postal service. However, you may wish to go straight to their information on stamps .
• Johnny Barkley is developing a website on New Zealand Postal Stationery Cards which displays his extensive collection of these postcards.
• Brian Hart has a blog entitled The Modern, Illustrated History of the New Zealand Chalons.
• Antarctic Philately including Ross Dependency is covered in an interesting web site including stamp images, historical details and postal history.
• Gerald Ellott is building a site titled Postal History & Philately that contains articles on various topics, many on New Zealand topics, with the aim of readers contributing more.
• The Captain Cook Society is for anyone interested in Captain Cook. They maintain a page containing information on Captain Cook on Stamps.
• An excellent site giving lots of details on the ½d stamps and postal stationary issued during the reign of GVI and their usage.
• Interesting site with lots of information on the 1935 pictorials.
• Interesting site on New Zealand revenues that contains scans of most issues.
• Site on stamp forgeries including those from New Zealand.

Catalogues

• Campbell Paterson are the New Zealand specialist dealer and publisher. The Campbell Paterson New Zealand Specialised Catalogue is a must for all New Zealand collectors. Since June 2014, their monthly newsletter, which contains lots of information and offers, can be downloaded free from their website. Earlier newsletters can be downloaded from our website.
• Auckland City Stamps have an online catalogue of New Zealand stamps.

Dealers, Auctions

• J R Mowbray have monthly postal auctions with an online auction catalogue.
• Campbell Paterson are the major specialist dealer in New Zealand stamps. As well as their specialised catalogue, they have a monthly newsletter, available online, with stamp offers.
• Auckland City Stamps have regular auctions.
• Ashford Stamps have a postal auction with an emphasis on New Zealand.
• The Complete Stamp Company have an online stamp site offering both individual items for sale and standard catalogue items. They specialise in New Zealand stamps and have regular auctions.
• Classic Stamps Ltd have an online stamp site offering individual New Zealand stamps and covers for sale. They also deal with Antarctica.
• John & Jan Fitzpatrick do not have a website, but do have postal auctions covering Postal History & Postal Stationery N.Z. & worldwide. They can be contacted at: PO Box 35 307, Browns Bay, Auckland 0753, New Zealand and their email address is: jandjfitz@xtra.co.nz
• Airmail Collector has regular auctions including New Zealand items.
• Zirinsky Stamps specialize in stamps, revenues, postal history, and cinderellas from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

Resources

• The Global Philatelic Library website is a joint index of philatelic literature founded by The Royal Philatelic Society, the Smithsonian Libraries and the American Philatelic Research Library and joined by many others.
• The British Postal Museum and Archive includes the Royal Mail Archive which contains more than 2.5 miles of shelving containg many original documents.
• Stampboards.com is a chat board and a bulletin board for stamp collectors. Lots of useful information and discussions.
• The aim of the Philatelic Youth Council (PYC) New Zealand is to promote Youth Philately throughout New Zealand and to encourage youth stamp collecting and exhibiting in general.
• Postage stamps directory at 2-clicks-stamps features complete lists of stamp resources and links for philatelists worldwide.
• Although still in its infancy, the philatelicdatabase hopes to become encyclopedic and to have databases for worldwide images of post offices and archival material from 19th and early 20th century philatelic journals and magazines.

Finding a Society

• The New Zealand Philatelic Federation's website includes information about their activities and constituent societies including contact details for all Philatelic Societies in New Zealand.
• The Association of British Philatelic Societies and the Association of Scottish Philatelic Societies have links to British and Scottish local societies respectively. They both have links to specialist societies.