Christchurch based "N.Z.Stamp Collectors Club" have their meeting tonight (Wednesday 22nd November) at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton. The programme is two fold. A talk and display on "Police on Stamps" by recently retired Police Sargeant Barry McKay who has collected this topic for many years. He is a great speaker so it will be a fascinating and enjoyable talk for sure. The other event is our Stamp Club Auction with 50 no reserve lots going under the hammer. Viewing of the lots can be done from 6.45pm to 7.30pm. The talk and display will take 30 minutes and after a short break the auction will start. This should finish by 9pm when supper will be available for all. We also have other silent displays, a raffle etc so all good fun. Everybody is welcome to come along and attend and enjoy the philately.

kiwisteven - 2017-11-22 13:26:00

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 2nd December from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
We have six standholders buying and selling.
Plenty of variety and bargains to be had for Christmas presents.
Come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

twg1935 - 2017-11-30 08:33:00

twg1935 wrote:

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 2nd December from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
We have six standholders buying and selling.
Plenty of variety and bargains to be had for Christmas presents.
Come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

A great show and great venue. I'll be attending for sure and really enjoying my time with all the keen stamp collectors present. I'm going to bring along some interesting things including a great Netherlands and colonies collection plus some great Pacific island material.

kiwisteven - 2017-12-01 19:57:00

Anyone following what is happening with Stanley Gibbons in the UK ?

www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/prices-and-markets/stoc
ks/exchange-insight/trade-data.html?page=0&pageOffBook=0
&fourWayKey=GB0009628438JEGBXAIM&formName=frmRow&
;upToRow=-1

last trade @ close - 1 Dec 2017 - 3.75 pence a share

then there is this -

http://www.stanleygibbons.com/investment/

"Nick Vermeulen and Zelf Hussain, of PricewaterhouseCoopers CI LLP and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP respectively, were appointed joint administrators of Stanley Gibbons (Guernsey) Limited on 21 November 2017, (the Joint Administrators) to manage its affairs, business and property as agents without personal liability. The Joint Administrators are authorised to act as insolvency practitioners in Guernsey by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales."

http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/market-news
/market-news-detail/SGI/13439076.html

more discussion on Stampboards on this too !

Edited by tmg at 3:04 am, Mon 4 Dec

tmg - 2017-12-04 03:02:00

Note that this administration refers to SG Guernsey, which promoted the stamp investment programme, and not SG itself. However, SG London is owed over 6 million pounds by their branch, which is obviously a concern.

tmg wrote:

Anyone following what is happening with Stanley Gibbons in the UK ?

www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/prices-and-markets/stoc
ks/exchange-insight/trade-data.html?page=0&pageOffBook=0
&fourWayKey=GB0009628438JEGBXAIM&formName=frmRow&
;upToRow=-1

last trade @ close - 1 Dec 2017 - 3.75 pence a share

then there is this -

http://www.stanleygibbons.com/investment/

"Nick Vermeulen and Zelf Hussain, of PricewaterhouseCoopers CI LLP and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP respectively, were appointed joint administrators of Stanley Gibbons (Guernsey) Limited on 21 November 2017, (the Joint Administrators) to manage its affairs, business and property as agents without personal liability. The Joint Administrators are authorised to act as insolvency practitioners in Guernsey by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales."

http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/market-news
/market-news-detail/SGI/13439076.html

more discussion on Stampboards on this too !

dunedinstamps - 2017-12-04 07:59:00

AUST POST adds CUTS in new stamps:

This is going to be very bad news for collectors of 2017 Australia onwards, as trying to remove the newer Aust Post 'vandalised' adhesive values from paper will likely result in high casualty rates.

Most collecting Australia will know that Sheet values are at times scarce -- this will likely now apply to also finding respectable used self adhesive values as well in the future.

This would appear a repeat of what happened with GB Queens Head values with the oblong perforated slots in more recent issues.

"Australia Post have now added “micro-cuts” to new issue stamps released in self-adhesive booklets. The first such issue was the June 7, 2017 $1 Lions Club Centenary issue. These “micro cuts” within the stamp design already are present in the alleged “Priority” labels as many readers may realise.

This interesting new development is outlined in the new Stamp Bulletin of “July/August 2017”.

Australia Post believes these slits will "improve the adhesion" of the stamps (huh?!) and also says it will make it “harder to re-use stamps that have escaped cancels.” As a vast % of letter mail these days receives no cancels, it seems bog obvious to me that if the PO did their job, and ensured mail got a cancel, they’d not need to mutilate our attractive Commemorative stamps."

more on this here:

https://glenstephens.com/snjuly17.html

Edited by tmg at 1:56 pm, Mon 4 Dec

tmg - 2017-12-04 13:53:00

Goodness only knows how these recent attempts at combating reuse of unpostmarked stamps will go. Why they don't simply cancel or postmark the stamps to prevent this is stupid and shows a lack of common sense. Postmarking stamps has worked perfectly for over 170 years. Of more worry long term is the forged stamps eminating from China (and elsewhere) which are flooding the American and British stamp market for cheaper stamps for postage use. No doubt we might eventually see this type of thing turn up in New Zealand. The British odd shaped perforations seem so far secure against this type of forgery but really the Postal Authorities and the Police really need to take action against this postal fraud or it will continue to be profitable for these crooks. Ebay where so many of these fraudulent stamps are sold thru is also at fault.

kiwisteven - 2017-12-04 21:33:00

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 16th December from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
We have six standholders buying and selling.
Last Fair for 2017 to get those Christmas presents.
Come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

twg1935 - 2017-12-14 09:26:00

twg1935 wrote:

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 16th December from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
We have six standholders buying and selling.
Last Fair for 2017 to get those Christmas presents.
Come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

Saturday morning will be the last chance for 2017 so I'll certainly be there along with my wares which hopefully will contain some great treasures for the usual attendees. Merry Xmas to all.

kiwisteven - 2017-12-15 23:26:00

Wishing everyone a safe and prosperous New Year. Happy collecting ... and keep up the posts.

janeec - 2018-01-03 06:37:00

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 6th January from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Standholders buying and selling.
First Fair for 2018.
Visitors to the city or locals, come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

twg1935 - 2018-01-04 23:47:00

twg1935 wrote:

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 6th January from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Standholders buying and selling.
First Fair for 2018.
Visitors to the city or locals, come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

2018 all ready. I'll be there and it will be good to catch up with all my old friends and to make some new ones. The Stamp fair is always a great event and quite a few people are coming along to see me and others that will be there. Cheers!

kiwisteven - 2018-01-06 02:25:00

FTC Handstamped Security Device Fiscals:

I see that Mowbray's Revenues catalogue lists only the 1938 KGVI lower 2d value for these fiscals @ $30

Anyone have any ideas for value in FTC handstamps appearing on higher KGVI values - say the 1/3 ?

Thanks

Edited by tmg at 3:05 pm, Wed 17 Jan

tmg - 2018-01-17 14:57:00

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 20th January from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Seven standholders buying and selling.
Visitors to the city or locals, come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

twg1935 - 2018-01-18 10:11:00

tmg wrote:

FTC Handstamped Security Device Fiscals:

I see that Mowbray's Revenues catalogue lists only the 1938 KGVI lower 2d value for these fiscals @ $30

Anyone have any ideas for value in FTC handstamps appearing on higher KGVI values - say the 1/3 ?

Thanks

The 2d was used because it was the required duty on receipts. Can you put up a scan of the 1/3 stamp you have, presumably?

dunedinstamps - 2018-01-18 20:12:00

twg1935 wrote:

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 20th January from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Seven standholders buying and selling.
Visitors to the city or locals, come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

I'll be there for sure. No doubt it will be a great morning as everyone will have had lots of time to work on their collections over the holidays.

kiwisteven - 2018-01-20 01:08:00

dunedinstamps wrote:

The 2d was used because it was the required duty on receipts. Can you put up a scan of the 1/3 stamp you have, presumably?

here we go - it is the 1/3 value:

https://trademe.tmcdn.co.nz/photoserver/full/715016330.jpg

tmg - 2018-01-20 13:33:00

tmg wrote:

here we go - it is the 1/3 value:

https://trademe.tmcdn.co.nz/photoserver/full/715016330.jpg[/
quote]

Nice unusual item for a specialist. A number of years ago I had a wide range of values, including higher valued arms stamps, with Royal Insurance perfins, but they were needed for policies I assume. But why would Farmers need them? Maybe the office person got carried away. Value? What someone's prepared to pay. If mine, I'd start it at around $35/$40 and see what happens. I don't remember seeing even the 2d on Trademe previously. Good luck.

dunedinstamps - 2018-01-22 23:20:00

Does anybody have any info on a 2d blue FFQ perf 13 with NZ watermark inverted. cheers

minimoe - 2018-01-25 21:02:00

minimoe wrote:

Does anybody have any info on a 2d blue FFQ perf 13 with NZ watermark inverted. cheers

The "NZ" watermark is quite often found inverted. See CP Catalogue. Permanent page Page A5, where this is specifically mentioned. This paper primarily used for the QV Revenue stamps, where the inverted version is common. Still nice item either way.

dunedinstamps - 2018-01-27 15:29:00

cheers Don, thanks for the info.

minimoe - 2018-01-28 20:01:00

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 3rd February from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Six standholders buying and selling.
Visitors to the city or locals, come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

twg1935 - 2018-02-01 10:53:00

twg1935 wrote:

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 3rd February from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Six standholders buying and selling.
Visitors to the city or locals, come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

Its sure to be a popular event with a lot of out of towners about. They can come along and see what the locals enjoy so much.

kiwisteven - 2018-02-03 00:25:00

Hello Stampers!!
Saw this and thought of you lot. It's the holy grail of stamps.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/101263704/the-kiwi-the-rare
-russian-stamp-and-the-experts-who-tried-to-fool-him

heisei28 - 2018-02-09 08:50:00

Trade me wrote:

We told you heisei, you could do a lot of things but don't piss off the good folk in the S.C. We will leave this one post here as we can't identify you insulting anyone, but be warned....

Sorry guys, it was just a link.
In my defence my grandfather collected stamps,
but I know that is no excuse.

heisei28 - 2018-02-09 09:27:00

heisei28 wrote:

Sorry guys, it was just a link.
In my defence my grandfather collected stamps,
but I know that is no excuse.

been kicked out of TMD again huh ? .. dont worry - we'll try to be gentle on you here .. ;-)

Yep -- interesting link & item -- it's the old Georgia - a local issue not in the SG Russia or Georgia pages as far as I can see

Edited by tmg at 4:07 pm, Fri 9 Feb

tmg - 2018-02-09 16:03:00

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 17th February from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Six standholders buying and selling.
Visitors to the city or locals, come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

twg1935 - 2018-02-15 08:23:00

hi everyone, my husband has inherited a huge stamp collection dating back to WW2 from Holland (while occupied) and onward. How would i go about getting the albums valued and or sold on? thanks!

ltlcutie - 2018-02-15 15:53:00

twg1935 wrote:

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 17th February from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Six standholders buying and selling.
Visitors to the city or locals, come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

It's sure to be a great and popular event with lots of out of towners around. I'll be there.

kiwisteven - 2018-02-16 21:04:00

TIMARU STAMP FAIR. This Saturday, February 24th from 10 am to 2.30pm at the Red Cross Hall, in Bank Street, Central Timaru. Easy car parking. Everybody welcome, free admission. Dealers and collectors from around the South Island attending including all the leading Christchurch Stamp Dealers.
If you want to add to your collection by filling in that annoying hole come along. If you have a collection to sell come along and offer it to the leading buyers who are keen to buy collections/accumulations of Stamps, FDC's, picture postcards, coins, medals, badges, banknotes etc. Hosted by the Timaru Stamp Club with assistance from NZ Post, this Fair celebrates the Societies 90th Anniversary and a special postmark for the event showing a Little blue penguin is being used to postmark the special CAL stamps being issued at the fair.

kiwisteven - 2018-02-22 17:33:00

The Timaru Philatelic Society's 90th Birthday weekend in Timaru went off very well with a good turn out at the fair with lots of business done by the dealers present, both buying and selling and also lots of free valuations appraisals done including about 20 to 30 by myself as a result of the great publicity in the Timaru Herald Newspaper. That evening the Society had a special 90th Birthday Dinner at the Seven Oaks Reception Centre with about 60 people attending including Local MP's (2), A representative of the Mayor, two newspaper reporters, Simon Allison from NZ Post, Bob Gibson from the NZ Philatelic Federation and myself from the NZ Stamp Dealers Association to commend the Society on its past and to wish it well for the future. The Timaru Society has always had a keen involvement with the hobby and was one of the foundation members back in 1946,

kiwisteven - 2018-02-26 00:08:00

Christchurch based "N.Z.Stamp Collectors Club" have their meeting this coming Wednesday 28th February at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton at 7.30pm. The programme will be highlighted by a talk and Display on “Ecology and conservation of birds as revealed by stamps” which will be presented by Professor Jim Briskie from Canterbury University. Jim is a keen Bird stamps collector and will share his professional Ornithological knowledge with us all. This will finish by 9pm when supper will be available for all. We also have other silent displays, a raffle etc so all good fun. Everybody is welcome to come along and attend and enjoy the philately.

Edited by kiwisteven at 12:26 am, Mon 26 Feb

kiwisteven - 2018-02-26 00:16:00

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 3rd March from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Seven standholders buying and selling.
Visitors to the city or locals, come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

twg1935 - 2018-03-01 09:42:00

twg1935 wrote:

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 3rd March from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Seven standholders buying and selling.
Visitors to the city or locals, come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

I expect quite a few people will be there and lots of fun had. I know I'm taking along a box of collections just purchased this week so all the regulars will have fun going thru them. Also have some items from last weekends Timaru stamp fair.,

kiwisteven - 2018-03-02 22:12:00

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 17th March from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Seven standholders (including one from Nelson) buying and selling.
Visitors to the city or locals, come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

twg1935 - 2018-03-15 15:38:00

twg1935 wrote:

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 17th March from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Seven standholders (including one from Nelson) buying and selling.
Visitors to the city or locals, come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

I'll be there for sure. Its New Zealand's best attended stamp fair and lots of bargains available. The Postal museum is also open during the fair and collectors should take the chance when they are at Mandeville street to have a look at it.

kiwisteven - 2018-03-15 22:57:00

Hi, I started collecting stamps as a child as many of us did, but haven't maintained the interest in the last 15years, I'm now looking at moving overseas and am not sure whether it's still worth keeping all my albums (which are a bit shambolic). My kids are not interested, and I don't want to tow them around with me. So... my question is... Is there still value in stamps and are people still interested in collecting them?

hilding - 2018-03-21 10:03:00

Impossible to tell without some information. It really depends on how serious you were when collecting. Did you complete sets? did you spend any money or are what you have from cheap stamp packets only. You really need to show them to a reliable person for their opinion. As I see you are from Whakatane I susgest you contact the Whakatane philatelic Society care of A W Fletcher-Cole Hall, 15 Mcgarvey Road, Whakatane

kiwisteven - 2018-03-23 23:05:00

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frogycrzy - 2018-04-01 11:15:00

frogycrzy wrote:

hi all new to this. ok I have bulk first day covers and albums by the year with stamps all mint plus sheets of stamps and some very old sets. plus about 15 mint nz post booklets. is there any one from pram to Levin that can check them out for me pls. I'm not a stamp collector I'm only a it tech for last 30 years. plus I don't trust the stamp shops due to last time my mother got them checked. a few costly ones went missing like the blue boy stamp and some other rear stamps with reprint of price over top of real printed price if need b contact me via my item it will b up for few more weeks if no one likes elvis. I need to sell the lot to help partner get to her mothers and back for few weeks as her mother has term cancer and they don't think she will last 3 weeks. I my self lost my mother last year. its her pic in my profile and it was her set along with my fathers sets he passed back in 83 when I was 11. I don't need a person that will rip me off

Google a local stamp club for advice. I am sure they will be able to help.

twg1935 - 2018-04-02 10:32:00

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 7th April from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Six standholders buying and selling.
Visitors to the city or locals, come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

twg1935 - 2018-04-05 08:30:00

twg1935 wrote:

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 7th April from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Six standholders buying and selling.
Visitors to the city or locals, come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

I'll be there this Saturday with hopefully some interesting items for all and sundry.

kiwisteven - 2018-04-06 23:37:00

The Central Districts 57th annual Stamps, Coins & Postcards Expo and Convention

Saturday 14th April 2018

At the Palmerston North Community Leisure Centre, 569 Ferguson Street
Hall open for public entry from 9.30am – 4.30pm

coinerrorsnz - 2018-04-13 21:45:00

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 21st April from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Six standholders buying and selling.
Visitors to the city or locals, come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

twg1935 - 2018-04-19 10:24:00

twg1935 wrote:

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 21st April from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Six standholders buying and selling.
Visitors to the city or locals, come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

I'll be there for sure with lots of nice new things to show locals. I managed to buy a few interesting collections this week so some of them will be on offer.

kiwisteven - 2018-04-20 23:54:00

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 5th May from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Six standholders buying and selling.
Visitors to the city or locals, come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

twg1935 - 2018-05-03 13:12:00

twg1935 wrote:

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 5th May from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Six standholders buying and selling.
Visitors to the city or locals, come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

I'll be there for sure. Wouldn't want to miss it as a great time is always held. The Dealers even organise a fancy coffee delivery from the nearby coffee shop so what more could one want on a Saturday morning!

kiwisteven - 2018-05-05 01:25:00

I know nothing about stamps, but a friend has shown me her father's and grandfather's stamp-collections. Most are properly mounted and g'father's are from his world travels, many from countries no longer extant. Where might she take them to be evaluated in ChCh?

schnauzer11 - 2018-05-05 20:56:00

Try Shades Stamp Shop - v reputable dealer. 303 Bealey Ave, Christchurch Central I think but check.

funho1 - 2018-05-06 07:33:00

hi, i have some pre-decimal stamps that have the price blacked out and new price put in. are they collectors items?

auntymo59 - 2018-05-08 15:18:00