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 . Minor revisions are made continually.

The full face queens (FFQ, Chalon heads)

• London and Richardson prints 1855-1861 8 Apr 06
  • Stampless entire NZ to Scotland 1860 2 Sep 04
• Davies imperforate issues 1862-1864 24 Nov 02
• Provisional papers and perforations 1862-1864
• Perforated issues 1864-1871
• New colours 1871-1873 30 Jun 04
• Postal history: letters to/from Great Britain 18 Sep 06
• Hausberg and Jolliffe reprints 28 Dec 05

• Postal history: letters NZ to England, 1876, 1879 30 Oct 05
• Halfpenny newspaper stamp 1873 12 Oct 03

• Recut dies of 1d, 2d and 6d
• Major flaws 29 Feb 04
• Postal history: letters to/from United Kingdom 1 Oct 05
• Adverts on back, 1893 20 Apr 03

• Local issues, 1899
• Reduced size, 1907
• Fiscal cancellations

• Waterlow trial plates
• Penny Dominion 2 Feb 04

• Christchurch & Auckland Exhibitions 25 Mar 05

• 4d re-entries
• Fivepence 17 Jun 05
• Surface printed 5 Feb 05
• Booklets 21 Jul 05
• 1920's Commemoratives 21 Dec 02
• 1930's Commemoratives 3 Feb 03

• 1931 Health issue (Smiling boys)
• 1932-1933 Health issues
• 1934 Health issue 12 Oct 03
• 1935-1937 Health issues
  • 1935, 1936, 1937 plate blocks
• 1938 Health issue
• 1939-1942 Health issues 14 Oct 03

• Blitz perforations 17 Mar 03
• 1d dies 3 Apr 04, 2d 25 Feb 04,
• 2½d 9 Apr 04, 3d 9 Apr 04, 4d plates 25 Oct 03
• 5d plate 2, 9d 26 Feb 04
• 2/- 25 Mar 04

• Pence plates 28 Aug 02, Shilling plates 22 Aug 02
• 1940 Centennial issue 7 Sep 02
• 1946 Peace issue 7 Sep 02

Early airmail history

New Zealand airmail stamps:the first issue,1931 2 Aug 06

• Highfield cover, 9 Nov 1931 12 Jun 04
• The 1935 issue, 1935 plates 14 Jan 06

• Christchurch - Dunedin, 6 Nov 1930 16 Jul 04
• Dominion Airlines, 1930-31 12 Jun 04
• Gisborne Air Transport, 1931-32 13 Aug 02
• Kaitaia Aero Club service to Auckland, 1931 26 Aug 05
• Nov 12 Christmas flight, 1931 15 Aug 02
  • Nov 13 return flight, 1931
• Christmas Eve flights, 1931 12 Nov 03
• Auckland - Gisborne, 10 Dec 1931 12 Mar 05
• Wellington - West Coast, 20 Jan 1932 21 Sep 03
• Air Pageants, 1932 6 May 06
• Wellington - Dannevirke, 16 March 1932
• Auckland - North Auckland, 30 April 1932
• Hokitika - Okuru, September 1932 16 Jul 04
• Christmas Eve flights, 1932 28 Jul 04

• South Westland, 1934 10 Jun 06
• East Coast Airways, 1935 6 Dec 05
• Union & Cook Strait Airways, March 1936 19 Apr 04
  • Cook Strait 9 Jul 05, Union Airways 19 Apr 04
  • Cook Strait - Union Connection
• Experimental Union extension to Invercargill, 1936
• Cook Strait extension to Hokitika, 1937 19 Oct 03
• Union Airways Auckland service, 1937 24 Jul 04
• East Coast extension, 1937 17 Jun 05

• Imperial Airways Eastern route 1927-1940 16 Apr 06
  • Baghdad-Cairo,1921-27 21 Jul 05
  • Basra-Cairo,1927 14 Aug 05
  • Imperial Airways: London-Karachi, 1929 29 May 06
  • Salonica, 1929 12 Feb 06
  • Delhi,Calcutta,Rangoon,Singapore 10 Jun 06
  • via Cyprus, 1932 21 May 03
  • Extension to Hong Kong, 1936-40 5 Sep 04
• NZ via Karachi 1929 - 34 24 Sep 06 , Late fee 3 Aug 02
• NZ via Adelaide-Perth 1929 - 1934 11 Feb 06
• Experimental UK-Australia airmail, 1931 6 Jul 05
  • Competition from KLM, 1931-38 11 Feb 06
• Christmas airmail to UK, 1931 12 Jun 04 and return
• NZ acceptance for Brisbane, 1931 14 Nov 04
• NZ Airmail to South Africa, 1932 27 May 06
• NZ acceptance for Tasmania, 1933 16 Jan 05
• Bega - Sydney - NZ, 1934 4 May 05
• Regular airmail Australia - UK, Dec 1934 27 Dec 05
  • Crashes: Scipio 1936, Cygnus, 1937 7 Sep 05
• Papua New Guinea, 1938 20 Nov 04
• Empire airmail scheme 1938 22 Apr 06
  • US to NZ via Trans-Atlantic Airmail 14 Aug 02
  • Crash of the Calpurnia
• World War II 6 May 06

• 1st official trans-Tasman airmail, Feb 1934 12 Aug 04
  • Ulm flight to NZ, Dec 1933 7 Nov 05
  • Kingsford Smith & Ulm commemoratives 28 Apr 03
  • Auckland-Invercargill, December 1933 21 Sep 03
• Kingsford Smith airmail, March 1934
• 1st airmail from Australia & rtn, April 1934 4 Feb 06
• Goodwill airmail May 1934 18 Apr 05
• First airmail to New Guinea, July 1934 12 Jul 03
• MacRobertson Air Race, October 1934 10 Sep 03
• Attempted Jubilee airmail 1935 14 Jan 06
  • Cancelled New Zealand - Australia flight, 1935 15 Jun 05
• Clouston-Ricketts record flight, 1938 19 Oct 03
• Regular Tasman airmail (TEAL) 1940 4 June 06
  • Survey flight to Fiji, 1939
• Horseshoe Route, 1940-41 17 Dec 04
• Egypt FPO to New Zealand, 1940-41 11 Feb 06

• US to NZ via Philippines, 1935 22 Apr 06
• Pan American Airways to USA 1938 19 Apr 04
  • New Zealand to Samoa and Hawaii 19 Apr 04
• Pan Am Regular NZ to USA airmails 1940 22 Apr 06
  • Hawaii, New Caledonia, Canton Island 16 Apr 06
• India & Australia to UK via NZ & USA 27 May 06
• Addition of Fiji to NZ - US route 2 Jun 04
  • Mail to and from Fiji 27 Apr 03

'Back of the book'

1867 revenues 17 Dec 05

• Law Courts & Land and Deeds: 1876-1881 21 Dec 03
• Penny Revenue: 1878 25 Oct 03
• Queen Victoria Longtype: 1880-1931 22 Oct 04
• Counterpart, Denoting, Fine, Indemnity 22 Oct 04
• Life Insurance: 1891-1947 5 Feb 05
• Railway Newspaper Stamps: 1890-1925 19 Jan 03
• Railway Charges Stamps: 1925 27 Dec 02

Many sites dealing with New Zealand philately are listed in the links page.

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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!

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All scans were made by the author. Copyright © 2001-2006 Robert Clark. For personal, non-commercial, charitable and educational use only.