auntymo59 wrote:

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

what is the picture on the stamp face? What value has been added/ deleted?

alston - 2018-05-08 17:01:00

funho1 wrote:

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

Thank you!

schnauzer11 - 2018-05-08 20:59:00

alston wrote:

what is the picture on the stamp face? What value has been added/ deleted?

queen elizabeth 2d put on, dont know the amount deleted as cant see it, king george (i think), amounts blacked out on both bottom corners and 1D put up on both top corners. have others as well

auntymo59 - 2018-05-08 21:28:00

auntymo59 wrote:

queen elizabeth 2d put on, dont know the amount deleted as cant see it, king george (i think), amounts blacked out on both bottom corners and 1D put up on both top corners. have others as well

google sounds like 1958 Queen Elizabeth overprints. 1941 King George overprint. The dealers on here would be of more help, I just collect. To me unless there is something special, or flawed in the stamp, they have no value. Check these stamps for sale on TM .

alston - 2018-05-09 07:44:00

alston wrote:

google sounds like 1958 Queen Elizabeth overprints. 1941 King George overprint. The dealers on here would be of more help, I just collect. To me unless there is something special, or flawed in the stamp, they have no value. Check these stamps for sale on TM .

thank you alston :)

auntymo59 - 2018-05-09 08:23:00

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 19th 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 - 2018-05-17 10:02:00

Sad week for Christchurch Philately. Well Known (throughout New Zealand) Christchurch philatelist John Wilson died on Tuesday evening in Hospital. John was a great promoter of the Christchurch Philatelic Society and certainly recruited more members for the Society than anybody else. He was also a keen member of the Philatelic Foundation in Christchurch, helping organise all of their stamp auctions. He was a Life member of The Society and will be missed by many.

kiwisteven - 2018-05-17 23:46:00

twg1935 wrote:

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 19th 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.

While many people might spend their Saturday watching the Royal wedding on Television, Most Christchurch stamp collectors highlight of the day will be the regular stamp fair at 67 Mandeville street. in Riccarton. I certainly plan to be there.

Edited by kiwisteven at 11:49 pm, Thu 17 May

kiwisteven - 2018-05-17 23:49:00

Stamp Auction, tonight (Wednesday 30th May) at philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton from 7.30pm. 150 lots all without reserve. Credit card payment is okay.

come along and get a bargain. viewing from 6pm.

kiwisteven - 2018-05-30 17:18:00

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 2nd June from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Eight standholders, including one from Dunedin, buying and selling.
Visitors to the city for Queens Birthday weekend or locals, come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

twg1935 - 2018-05-31 07:53:00

twg1935 wrote:

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 2nd June from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Eight standholders, including one from Dunedin, buying and selling.
Visitors to the city for Queens Birthday weekend or locals, come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.

Make sure you use Blenheim Road or Picton Avenue to access it because the Riccarton road entrance is currently completely blocked off by roadworks.

kiwisteven - 2018-06-02 00:26:00

Many will remember the rare 1857 "City mail for Tiflis" stamp (Tbilisi - Georgia - Caucasus - Russia) discovered in a NZ collection purchased by Robin Gwynn:

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

Here is a further site with a lot more history on the early Russian & Caucasus postal system & this stamp - which appears to be both the first Georgian & first Russian Stamp issued:

http://www.tiflisstamp.com/

Edited by tmg at 11:26 pm, Mon 4 Jun

tmg - 2018-06-04 23:12:00

Way out but hell, very interesting.

Thanks for the tiflis link.

philafarinz - 2018-06-05 14:54:00

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 16th June 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 - 2018-06-14 09:22:00

twg1935 wrote:

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 16th June 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 looks like being a good day for it and a great way to start the weekend by adding to a stamp collection. I'll not miss it for sure.. I have a booked table at the fair.

kiwisteven - 2018-06-16 07:39:00

Do you want to know about stamp watermarks?
The NZ stamp collectors club have a special talk and presentation timed for 7.30pm this Wednesday 27th June at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville Street, Riccarton in Christchurch. Frans Van der Plas, a previously exchange Branch super-intendent and watermark specialist will show us all his tips on how to work out postmarks. We also have a talk on Canada so lots to interest people.

kiwisteven - 2018-06-24 19:02:00

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 7th July from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Eight 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.
Nice and warm venue. Great coffee shop handy.

twg1935 - 2018-07-05 09:42:00

I'll be at the Christchurch Stamp Fair for sure. A real not to be missed event.

kiwisteven - 2018-07-06 21:30:00

Rant warning:
Traders that do not start their sale at their reserve price are just wasting my time.

warm3 - 2018-07-08 19:16:00

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 21st July from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Eight standholders, including one from Blenheim 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.
Nice and warm venue. Great coffee shop handy.

twg1935 - 2018-07-19 07:03:00

twg1935 wrote:

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 21st July from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Eight standholders, including one from Blenheim 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.
Nice and warm venue. Great coffee shop handy.

I'll be bringing along some interesting old stamp albums this weekend for folk to go through. No doubt there will be some unusual items amongst them. Also a shoebox of Christchurch postcards!

kiwisteven - 2018-07-19 18:43:00

guess this needs a bump

warm3 - 2018-08-01 02:09:00

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 4th August 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.
Nice and warm venue. Great coffee shop handy.

twg1935 - 2018-08-02 10:07:00

twg1935 wrote:

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 4th August 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.
Nice and warm venue. Great coffee shop handy.

I'll be there for sure. Lots of stamps, warm and convivial aptmosphere, what could be better. A great way to start the weekend!

kiwisteven - 2018-08-04 07:34:00

bumpity bump

minimoe - 2018-08-14 19:27:00

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 18th August 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.
Nice and warm venue. Great coffee shop handy.

twg1935 - 2018-08-16 11:25:00

twg1935 wrote:

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 18th August 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.
Nice and warm venue. Great coffee shop handy.

I'll be there for sure and looking like a wet day outdoors it will be great to be inside and warm!

kiwisteven - 2018-08-18 01:09:00

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 1st September 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.
Nice and warm venue. Great coffee shop handy.

twg1935 - 2018-08-30 12:36:00

twg1935 wrote:

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 1st September 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.
Nice and warm venue. Great coffee shop handy.

I love your new "Stamp and Postcards Fair" sign which can be easily seen as one comes along the Street.. Very well done indeed. What a great way to start the weekend.!.

kiwisteven - 2018-08-31 22:09:00

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 15th September 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.
Nice and warm venue. Great coffee shop handy.

twg1935 - 2018-09-13 09:03:00

I hear that NZ Post is no longer cancelling stamps by machine, so there will be fewer genuine postally-used stamps in the future. Does this mean that the value of used stamps will attract higher prices in the future?

janeec - 2018-09-25 08:44:00

STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 6th October from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Eight standholders, including one from Dunedin 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.
Great coffee shop handy.

twg1935 - 2018-10-04 08:08:00

NZ Post are now saying that the stopping of cancelling stamps was a trial and they have decided to recommence the cancelling of stamps and postage as from 8th October 2018. Previous correspondence from NZ Post did not say it was a trial, but we should give them kudos for listening to the feedback from their customers.

Edited by janeec at 11:00 am, Fri 5 Oct

janeec - 2018-10-05 10:59:00

twg1935 wrote:

STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 6th October from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Eight standholders, including one from Dunedin 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.
Great coffee shop handy.

I'll be there for sure with a great range of interesting collections just to hand. Had a great time in Invercargill last weekend and pick up a few collections there and on the way back.

Mandeville Street is a great venue.

kiwisteven - 2018-10-06 07:36:00

I see there are a couple of 2018 stamp catalogues (NZ stamps) around. Is there a preferred one recommended?
Thanks

sharee9 - 2018-10-09 10:39:00

sharee9 wrote:

I see there are a couple of 2018 stamp catalogues (NZ stamps) around. Is there a preferred one recommended?
Thanks

there isn't a lot of difference in stamp pricing between the two - Len Jury & ACS in their simplified glossy catalogues IMO

tmg - 2018-10-11 15:41:00

tmg wrote:

there isn't a lot of difference in stamp pricing between the two - Len Jury & ACS in their simplified glossy catalogues IMO

Thanks

sharee9 - 2018-10-12 13:17:00

janeec wrote:

NZ Post are now saying that the stopping of cancelling stamps was a trial and they have decided to recommence the cancelling of stamps and postage as from 8th October 2018. Previous correspondence from NZ Post did not say it was a trial, but we should give them kudos for listening to the feedback from their customers.

I received a letter today sent from Lower Hutt 2 days ago with an uncancelled stamp.

paulmc - 2018-10-13 23:43:00

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 20th October 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.
Great coffee shop handy.

twg1935 - 2018-10-18 07:18:00

paulmc wrote:

I received a letter today sent from Lower Hutt 2 days ago with an uncancelled stamp.

Yep .. been receiving a few from all over the country in past 3-4 weeks -- but now they seem to cancelling the more recent ones again .. ;-)

tmg - 2018-10-19 23:05:00

tmg wrote:

Yep .. been receiving a few from all over the country in past 3-4 weeks -- but now they seem to cancelling the more recent ones again .. ;-)

They don't seem to bother postmarking the non-standard letters, nor the parcels which makes sense. mail which gets machine sorted because it is normal envelope size gets postmarked because it goes thru the CFC machines and it doesn't take any human involvement to cancel them.

kiwisteven - 2018-10-20 01:00:00

twg1935 wrote:

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 20th October 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.
Great coffee shop handy.

I'll be there for sure. Wouldn't miss such a treat.

kiwisteven - 2018-10-20 01:01:00

TIMARU STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 27th October from 10am to 2.30pm at the Red Cross Rooms, Bank Street, Timaru.

Dealers from around the South Island attending. Free entry. Lots of bargains to be had. Both selling and buying.

kiwisteven - 2018-10-27 06:39:00

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 3rd November 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.
Great coffee shop handy.

twg1935 - 2018-11-01 16:20:00

twg1935 wrote:

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 3rd November 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.
Great coffee shop handy.

Bound to be a great Saturday morning with stamps, good seats and great surroundings with lots of like minded collectors to discuss the hobby with. I'll be there for sure to enjoy the great time everybody has.

Regards to all.

kiwisteven - 2018-11-03 07:03:00

Is there one in Tauranga this weekend? 10th November.

grandmasue1 - 2018-11-09 11:15:00

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frogycrzy - 2018-11-14 02:40:00

Looks like a cut-out from a stationery envelope.

phil.s - 2018-11-14 13:06:00

The member deleted this message.

frogycrzy - 2018-11-14 14:54:00

"STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR" this Saturday 17th November from 9am to noon at the Philatelic Centre, 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton, Christchurch.
Seven standholders buying and selling.
Visitors to the city for "Cup & Show Week" or locals, come along and put a face to your favourite Trade Me sellers.
Eftpos available.
Free admission.
Great coffee shop handy.

twg1935 - 2018-11-15 10:20:00