Early New Zealand Stamps

Hi all! I was going through some folders of stuff and I found this paper with these New Zealand stamps hinged to it. Does anyone know of any good resources that would help ID the postal cancels on these stamps? I thank you in advance.

I am not aware of a specialised catalogue
Try the webmaster here
https://www.eastamps.com/shop/Stamp...auranga.html

Postmarks will become the new rage in the next 50 years
most issuing counties are gradually dispensing with hand struck
obliterators.

Please let us know if you are successful.

I have a list of NZ Postmarks (names only)
but they are 60 pages long.

rod222, I guess there is an 8 volume set of books that have some of that info in them. I guess for a fee, I can join The Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand Library and have access to these books online. I am off to explore that route and see what may become of it. Thank you for the input! That pointed me in this new direction. I appreciate it.

https://rpsnz.org.nz/page.php
That is the link to the web page that I managed to get to, in case you were wondering.

Thank you J,
alas, I could not get on that link.........

Good luck with your quest. Be aware that except for a few numbers, like "1" for Auckland, the numerals below the number 18 (at least) were used in different places at different times so it is impossible to tell the town of origin. This is per an old Campbell-Patterson catalog. The bottom right stamp has "O" for Otago. The other "O" in the same row is probably Otago also.

I'm looking at a fairly large screen and I can't read most of the cancels. The image does not expand. If you can't help us, we can't help you.

Here are some thoughts.
Top row: "6" - New Plymouth; "OTAGO" - Dunedin;
2nd row: "2" Russel
4th row: first stamp - Christchurch
Bottom row: "20" Greymouth; "O" (2 stamps) - Dunedin (O for Otago); "11" Napier or Kaipoi

The others I found it difficult to see what was within the barred oval.
Hope this helps.

"History of the New Zealand Military Postal Services 1845-1951" by Robin Startup RDP & Ted Proud
RDP (1992)
"Cachets, Cancels, Cards: aspects of the Postal History of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force
during World War I" by John Murr (2009)
"Military Postal History Postal Auction" (the Eric Gibbs Collection) New Zealand Philatelic Brokers
(8/11/1996)
"New Zealand Post Offices" by Robin Startup RDP (1993)
"New Zealand Post Offices Cancellation & Postmark Guide" by Richard Wooders (1998)

Internet Image.

For some obliterators on Chalon stamps;
http://www.andrewsnzstamps.com/chal...stal-history

Sorry, rod222, try this one instead.
http://www.rpsnz.org.nz/index.php/o...out-of-print

Thanks everyone. I will work on getting the regular images instead of a snip/screen shot. I appreciate your assistance.

I rescanned the sheet and was able to break it down into sections and resize the pics to fit. If you have issues getting bigger images, let me know and I will scan each individual stamp. Hope this helps.

This is a screen shot of what was sent to me, showing a list of the early number obliterators.

Thank you for posting that list, and increasing our knowledge base.
Well done you.

I asked about the reference number in the screen shot by the 9, and I was sent a link for a pdf.
https://www.mowbrays.co.nz/files/re...-article.pdf

Age is wearying me, took 20 seconds before the penny dropped.