Links
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. A related website Christchurch Philately describes many aspects of philately in Christchurch including links to local stamp dealers.
- 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.
- 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 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 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.
Stamp Details
- 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 .
- Antarctic Philately including Ross Dependency is covered in an interesting web site including stamp images, historical details and postal history.
- Antarctic Philately from New Zealand provides an extensive site on all aspects of the stamps and postal history with much of interest covering New Zealand and Ross Dependency with examples of many covers.
- The Captain Cook Society is for anyone interested in Captain Cook. They maintain a page containing information on Captain Cook on Stamps.
- You can get information on the New Zealand lighthouses shown on N.Z. Government Life Insurance issues. The page includes a map showing the position of the lighthouses.
- Site about stamp booklets and errors. Also imprints and plate blocks.
- Site on PanAm trans-Pacific Flights in the early years of WWII with lots of covers including from New Zealand.
- Site on revenue stamps including a comprehensive priced listing of New Zealand revenues and railway stamps.
- Finally, the author of this page has built up a collection of New Zealand Stamp Images on topics such as Chalon heads, blitz perforations and early airmail history together with links to other similar sites.
Dealers, Catalogues, Auctions
- Campbell Paterson have descriptions of their specialised New Zealand catalogue and extracts from their newsletter together with stamp offers. The CP New Zealand Catalogue is a must for all New Zealand collectors.
- Auckland City Stamps have an online catalogue of New Zealand stamps.
- Ashford Stamps have a postal auction with an emphasis on New Zealand.
- Shades Stamp Shop, Christchurch has offers including New Zealand Cinderellas and a site on Antarctic Philately.
- 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.
- The Collector's Mall, based in New Plymouth, has an extensive list of New Zealand and Pacific Postal History.
- J R Mowbray have an online auction catalogue.
- Len Jury has an online simplified catalogue and an online auction catalogue.
- Roger Pearce maintains a list of New Zealand stamp dealers which is organised by region.
- Chalon Stamps have an on-line price list with lots of illustrations.
- Classic Stamps Ltd have an online stamp site offering individual New Zealand stamps and covers for sale. They also deal with Antarctica.
- Aerophil Aerophilately has the world's largest stock of Aerophilatelic & Commercial Aviation literature. Also has airmail covers & air crash covers.
- Airmail Collector has regular auctions including New Zealand items.
Resources
- Stampboards.com is a chat board and a bulletin board for stamp collectors. Lots of useful information and discussions.
- Postage stamps directory at 2-clicks-stamps features complete lists of stamp resources and links for philatelists worldwide.
- Wardrop's Stamp Links provides a good starting point for accessing sites on stamp collecting and dealing.
- Roger Pearce maintains a New Zealand stamp links page.
- Peter Aitken maintains a searchable data base of links. The site includes useful advice on scanning stamp images.
- The Swappers & Collectors Pages contain everything for collectors! Bookstore, phonecardstore, special offers, search engine, links, lists, newsgroups, message boards, chat... free ads!
- 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.
- The Stampfinder site claims to be the largest and most diverse philatelic site on the Internet.
Finding a Society
- A point clickable map of local societies in the UK is maintained by UK Philately. They also list National Societies and Regional Associations and have a list of Specialist Societies including ours.