Welcome to New Zealand Stamp Images, a site on New Zealand philately: postage stamps, airmails and postal history.
Search site for items of interest.
We have articles on topics such as New Zealand first flight covers, blitz perfs and the classic Queen Victoria Chalon heads.
Each article illustrates a particular point and sometimes raises questions. In addition, we describe New Zealand's early air mail history through examples of airmail covers.
The pages in each article are linked by arrows with other links to enable you to access more information or to follow the article in an order of your choosing.
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The starting page of each article is in bold.
Dates refer to creation or last major revision (e.g. new scans).
Most recent are marked
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Minor revisions are made continually.
The full face queens (FFQ, Chalon heads)
- London and Richardson prints 1855-1861
- Davies imperforate issues 1862-1864
- Provisional papers and perforations 1862-1864
- Perforated issues 1864-1871
- New colours 1871-1873
- Postal history: letters to/from Great Britain
- Hausberg and Jolliffe reprints
- Recut dies of 1d, 2d and 6d
- Major flaws
- Postal history: letters to/from United Kingdom
- Adverts on back, 1893
- 1931 Health issue (Smiling boys)
- 1932-1933 Health issues
- 1934 Health issue
- 1935-1937 Health issues
- 1938 Health issue
- 1939-1942 Health issues
Early airmail history
New Zealand airmail stamps:the first issue,1931
- Christchurch - Dunedin, 6 Nov 1930
- Dominion Airlines, 1930-31
- Christchurch - Timaru: 10th Anniversary, 1931
- Gisborne Air Transport, 1931-32
- Kaitaia Aero Club service to Auckland, 1931
- Nov 12 Christmas flight (and return), 1931
- Christmas Eve flights, 1931
- Auckland - Gisborne, 10 Dec 1931
- Wellington - West Coast, 20 Jan 1932
- Air Pageants, 1932
- Wellington - Dannevirke, 16 March 1932
- Auckland - North Auckland, 30 April 1932
- Hokitika - Okuru, September 1932
- Christmas Eve flights, 1932
- South Westland, 1934
- East Coast Airways, 1935
- Union & Cook Strait Airways, March 1936
- Experimental Union extension to Invercargill, 1936
- Cook Strait extension to Hokitika, 1937
- Union Airways Auckland service, 1937
- East Coast extension, 1937
- Imperial Airways Eastern route 1927-1940
- NZ via Karachi 1929 - 34 , Late fee
- NZ via Adelaide-Perth 1929 - 1934
- Experimental UK-Australia airmail, 1931
- Christmas airmail to UK, 1931 and return
- NZ acceptance for Brisbane, 1931
- NZ Airmail to South Africa, 1932
- NZ Airmail to Persia, 1932
- NZ acceptance for Tasmania, 1933
- Bega - Sydney - NZ, 1934
- Regular airmail Australia - UK, Dec 1934
- Papua New Guinea, 1938
- Empire airmail scheme 1938
- World War II
- 1st official trans-Tasman airmail, Feb 1934
- Kingsford Smith airmail, March 1934
- 1st airmail from Australia & rtn, April 1934
- Goodwill airmail May 1934
- First airmail to New Guinea, July 1934
- MacRobertson Air Race, October 1934
- Attempted Jubilee airmail 1935
- Clouston-Ricketts record flight, 1938
- Regular Tasman airmail (TEAL) 1940
- Horseshoe Route, 1940-41
- Egypt FPO to New Zealand, 1940-41
- US to NZ via Philippines, 1935 and 1937
- Pan American Airways to USA 1938
- PanAm Regular NZ to USA airmails 1940
- PanAm NZ to Hawaii, New Caledonia, Canton Island
- India & Australia to UK via NZ & USA
- Addition of Fiji to NZ - US route, Nov 1941
'Back of the book'
- Law Courts & Land and Deeds: 1876-1881
- Penny Revenue: 1878
- Queen Victoria Longtype: 1880-1931
- Counterpart, Denoting, Fine, Indemnity
- Life Insurance: 1891-1947
- Railway Newspaper Stamps: 1890-1925
- Railway Charges Stamps: 1925
Many sites dealing with New Zealand philately are listed in the links page.
New Zealand Society of Great Britain
This page is not part of the official site of the New Zealand Society of Great Britain although it is maintained by the same person. The Society's site includes a membership application form and a table of contents of its journal The Kiwi.
Another link is the support site for the new edition of my book, but be warned that it has nothing to do with stamps!
All scans were made by the author. Copyright © 2008 Robert Clark. For personal, non-commercial, charitable and educational use only.