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donaldo - 2015-08-18 21:52:00

Thanks, will do. I appreciate the advice.

stritchie - 2015-08-19 21:23:00

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donaldo - 2015-08-24 22:44:00

Hi all,
I have a collection of old NZ postal history items (or at least NZ post related items) such as: 938490164 939812792 940353204 939314803 940877941 939812744
The collection includes lots of old bits from post offices as they were closed down and early promotional items posters etc. I am wanting to know what the most appropriator categories are before I list more as have been putting some of the badges under Military badges as with some uniforms but not sure if they would be better in NZ stamps. Any help and suggestions welcome.
Thanks

bjubes - 2015-08-30 04:05:00

STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR, this Saturday 5th September from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Plenty of variety and bargains to be had.
Come along and put a face on your favourite Trade Me sellers.

twg1935 - 2015-09-03 13:08:00

Hi all,

Do "Totara North" post marks have any special value, esp first day of issue envelopes or FDC's?

bca - 2015-09-04 15:04:00

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donaldo - 2015-09-04 15:46:00

ok, in my ignorance, what do the various classes mean?

bca - 2015-09-04 16:16:00

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donaldo - 2015-09-04 20:27:00

i thought the NZ business confidence was down, but not for the stamps market. This afternoon's John Mowbray's international stamp auction was pretty exciting with a of of dealers bidding against one another

ang_ck - 2015-09-05 18:39:00

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donaldo - 2015-09-05 21:01:00

donaldo wrote:

interesting comment
lets hope that some of the confidence spreads to trade me

Almost all the dealers were sitting at the back of the room bidding against one another

ang_ck - 2015-09-05 22:30:00

ang_ck wrote:

Almost all the dealers were sitting at the back of the room bidding against one another

Yep. All gloves are off once you are in the auction room.
Exciting day. Some prices were very strong, but well worth the trip up.
Bought some nice lots.

dunedinstamps - 2015-09-06 00:52:00

dunedinstamps wrote:

Yep. All gloves are off once you are in the auction room.
Exciting day. Some prices were very strong, but well worth the trip up.
Bought some nice lots.

i wonder why sometimes the JM's estimates were way above the final selling prices ans some are not. There were alot of interest in the almost everything interesting. I saw some nice but expensive covers, some nice NZ collections and FFQ looks popular again.

There is a particular dealer from North Palmerston (LOL), she is a prolific postcard buyer. Obviously there are buyers out there looking for NZ postcards.

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naxos - 2015-09-08 14:19:00

COLLECTIBLES & POSTCARD FAIR, this Sunday 13th September from 10am to 4pm at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Hosted by NZ Postcard Society, who are holding there National Convention over the weekend.
There will be 7 dealers (2 from Dunedin, 2 from Christchurch, 2 from Nelson & 1 from Wellington) buying & selling.
Plenty of stamp and postcard bargains to be had.
Come along and put a face on your favourite Trade Me sellers.

twg1935 - 2015-09-10 08:30:00

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naxos - 2015-09-10 11:04:00

twg1935 wrote:

COLLECTIBLES & POSTCARD FAIR, this Sunday 13th September from 10am to 4pm at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Hosted by NZ Postcard Society, who are holding there National Convention over the weekend.
There will be 7 dealers (2 from Dunedin, 2 from Christchurch, 2 from Nelson & 1 from Wellington) buying & selling.
Plenty of stamp and postcard bargains to be had.
Come along and put a face on your favourite Trade Me sellers.

I will come along for a look see.

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naxos - 2015-09-10 14:34:00

twg1935 wrote:

COLLECTIBLES & POSTCARD FAIR, this Sunday 13th September from 10am to 4pm at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Hosted by NZ Postcard Society, who are holding there National Convention over the weekend.
There will be 7 dealers (2 from Dunedin, 2 from Christchurch, 2 from Nelson & 1 from Wellington) buying & selling.
Plenty of stamp and postcard bargains to be had.
Come along and put a face on your favourite Trade Me sellers.

Yes Gary, should be a good turnout. Have a lot of new cards priced up for the show. Car already loaded up. Don

dunedinstamps - 2015-09-10 20:59:00

twg1935 wrote:

COLLECTIBLES & POSTCARD FAIR, this Sunday 13th September from 10am to 4pm at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Hosted by NZ Postcard Society, who are holding there National Convention over the weekend.
There will be 7 dealers (2 from Dunedin, 2 from Christchurch, 2 from Nelson & 1 from Wellington) buying & selling.
Plenty of stamp and postcard bargains to be had.
Come along and put a face on your favourite Trade Me sellers.

Its sounding like this will be a great event. I have a North Island collector who is flying in tomorrow morning (Friday] who wants to spend some hours checking my stocks tomorrow so he will have Sunday free to check out the other dealers!

kiwisteven - 2015-09-10 22:40:00

I have only just found this page, maybe I wasn't looking before.
Earlier this year I inherited a very extensive well cared for stamp and first day cover collection.
By skimming through I note that there is still a lot of interest in stamps.
I will need to research an area closer too home than Wellington or Christchurch .

grandmasue1 - 2015-09-11 21:29:00

grandmasue1 wrote:

I have only just found this page, maybe I wasn't looking before.
Earlier this year I inherited a very extensive well cared for stamp and first day cover collection.
By skimming through I note that there is still a lot of interest in stamps.
I will need to research an area closer too home than Wellington or Christchurch .

There are reliable dealers in your area including Hamilton. If you check out the New Zealand Stamp Dealers website you will find some reliable dealers listed in your district. There are also a couple of dealers in the Rotorua area who you will get an honest opinion from but of course you do do need to find their names out as I'm not allowed by Trademe rules to individually promote them by name.

kiwisteven - 2015-09-12 08:32:00

Thanks *kiwisteven* i will do that.
Actually most of the collection I have was amassed in Palmerston Nth. The Aunt worked in 'tolls'.

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donaldo - 2015-09-16 15:42:00

STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR, this Saturday 19th September from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Plenty of variety and bargains to be had.
Come along and put a face on your favourite Trade Me sellers.

twg1935 - 2015-09-17 09:50:00

twg1935 wrote:

STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR, this Saturday 19th September from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Plenty of variety and bargains to be had.
Come along and put a face on your favourite Trade Me sellers.

I'll make sure I come along. No doubt it will be a popular fair going by recent ones!

kiwisteven - 2015-09-18 18:07:00

Help !
When listing in -My Products- you enter the Start Price, Buy Now Price and FPO Price.
Next to FPO you have a window (copy to from Buy Now)

Question: A Buy Now price is normally higher than the start/reserve price.
and the FPO likely lower.

Why is the option only to copy the Buy Now price which would be highest in most cases ?

Any one willing to answer ?

philafarinz - 2015-09-20 20:12:00

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donaldo - 2015-09-21 14:06:00

donaldo wrote:

at the moment any bid at all is getting pretty special

I note you have that dilemma too, LOL, but would like a sensible reply from somebody or any TM staff with his or her feet under the desk to reply would also be welcome.

philafarinz - 2015-09-21 14:22:00

philafarinz wrote:

Help !
When listing in -My Products- you enter the Start Price, Buy Now Price and FPO Price.
Next to FPO you have a window (copy to from Buy Now)

Question: A Buy Now price is normally higher than the start/reserve price.
and the FPO likely lower.

Why is the option only to copy the Buy Now price which would be highest in most cases ?

Any one willing to answer ?

More chance of getting response if you placed in "Trade Me Discussion" section.

twg1935 - 2015-09-22 08:04:00

twg1935 wrote:

More chance of getting response if you placed in "Trade Me Discussion" section.

Thank you for the reply.
As TM reads all of these posts this should also be noticed.
What they do with it is anybodies guess.

philafarinz - 2015-09-22 13:43:00

See the 'Blog' on photo policy.

philafarinz - 2015-09-24 08:52:00

bca wrote:

Hi all,
Do "Totara North" post marks have any special value, esp first day of issue envelopes or FDC's?

Is that Totara North from Kaeo way? My Dad's friend ran the shop there way back in the day.

juli55 - 2015-09-26 15:29:00

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naxos - 2015-09-27 11:59:00

Yes Naxos: But is it in Whangarei Postal?

juli55 - 2015-09-27 21:42:00

donaldo wrote:

west auckland stamp club meets tonight at 148a cliff view drive,green bay at 7.30pm all welcome

Don: Is that Sunday nights?

juli55 - 2015-09-27 21:43:00

i have some old 1940 "Onward" stamps, unhinged mint, with the black part being 1mm out of register. Any value? $2?

juli55 - 2015-09-27 21:50:00

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donaldo - 2015-09-28 20:47:00

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muzz8 - 2015-09-30 16:33:00

Don: The stamps are the Peace set, the Onward one. I have a guy prepared to buy and I hope $5.00 is OK for 2.

juli55 - 2015-09-30 21:21:00

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donaldo - 2015-09-30 22:16:00

They had postal zones in the 3 large cities with Christchurch having I think 6 zones. So Christchurch 1 was central, Christchurch 2 was Sydenham and towards the Port Hills etc. You even got Postmarks in the 1950's which had these zones in the Postmark

kiwisteven - 2015-09-30 23:19:00

STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR, this Saturday 3rd October from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Plenty of variety and bargains to be had.
Come along and put a face on your favourite Trade Me sellers.

twg1935 - 2015-10-01 10:13:00

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muzz8 - 2015-10-01 14:53:00

twg1935 wrote:

STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR, this Saturday 3rd October from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Plenty of variety and bargains to be had.
Come along and put a face on your favourite Trade Me sellers.

I think the dealers faces may be a bit glum because of lack of trade today in the morning as the Rugby Test All Blacks verses Georgia wil be live 8am till at least 10am and then with after match comments it won't give much time before the stamp fair closes at 12 noon. Mind you if there are any non rugby collectors about it will give them a great chance to get one on one personal service with no jossling to get into the front of the stands!

I, of course will be there bright eyed and bushy tailed.

kiwisteven - 2015-10-03 01:21:00