Postmarks on 1d Doms - 350+ different arranged alphabetically on album pages - further divided by opened & closed as about the 1970s. Many useful but nothing very scarce noted. Plus about 30 commercial covers & packets various pmks (about 100 stamps). (Image)

Kowai Bush Military Camp (CH 20 April-16 May 1914) fine complete "MILITARY CAMP/4" B-type cds 27 AP 14 on 1d Dominion on comic PPC, with light brown stains (tea?) over m/s message. To Ashburton. Temporary "territorial" camp PO. Rare. (Image)

Turangarere (WG, 1903-1909, to Turangaarere 16 JE 09) reg'd commercial cover (2 spike holes) to Australia ("Tats" cover), with strip of 4 x 1d Universal cancelled by 2 fine strikes of “H” class MY 22 05, with 3 transit/receipts b/s. A railway construction camp on NIMT line. Very scarce. (Image)

Waimate nice clear manuscript cancel on 6d red-brown FFQ (imperf, 2½ margins SG 43). Waimate (Northland) was the site of an early Anglican mission from the 1830s. PO opened in 1857 (North Waimate). Wooders 10. (Image)

White Island (RO 1927-30) very fine complete J-type cds 14 DE 28 on 1d GV on damaged cover (opening tears & deficits, vertical central fold). Readdressed from Reporoa (transit b/s) to Cambridge. PO at office of sulphur extraction works. With 1982 newspaper article & photo relating to this cover and its original sender (who briefly visited the island in Dec 1978). Rare d/s. (Image)

1860s-1980 varied colln of 237 covers & p/cs in large (modern) photo album, with numerous better items. Noted 1862 wrapper with imperf FFQ 2d SG 9 (3 margins but with strong crease), cancelled fine “7” barred obliterator of Wellington; 1881 cover ex GB with fine b/s R.T.P.O. (IN) “A” class cds; many SSF & 1st pictorial covers & p/cs, incl 20 regd; scarce pmks incl Otago Heads “F” class 1906 (in use only from 1904-11); 1926 Dunedin Exbn relief cds; Taniwha “F” class cancel 1932; 1940 WAITANGI AK relief cds; 1941 WINGATUI MC relief cds (13 AP); many RTPO & FFCs; 1937 Express cover (fine); 1941-2 WWII Prisoner of War cachet covers; 1942 Narrow Neck Military Camp cds; 1942 2NZEF folded Xmas card (art by Peter McIntyre); 1948 HMNZS Kiwi ex Campbell Islands & many 1950s+ collectors’ pmk covers with mostly “A” class or relief cds. Generally good/fine condition. (Image)

1862-73 colln, 32 covers all with FFQs (incl 5 only partial), written up on 21 album pages & 2 Hagners. Incl 17 inland & 15 to destinations abroad (to GB mainly or Australia). Noted 1d "drop letter"rate x 2; 2d basic inland rate x 12; 3d inland interprovincial rate x 3; 3d rate to Victoria, Australia; 6d rate to GB via Suez & Southampton x 9 (incl 1863 with imperf 6d black-brown Pelure paper, damaged corner, 1869 with pair 3d lilac p12½, & 1873 with pairs 1d brown & 2d vermilion p12½); 10d rate to GB via Suez & Marseilles x 2 (1866 p12½ 6d & 2 x 2d & 1867 part cover with p12½ 6d red-brown & 4d yellow, heavy cancel); & 1/- double rate to GB. Postmarks are mainly ex major towns, though 4 are ex same correspondence Queenstown to Scotland, 1865-66, addressed to Duncan Whyte. Condtion varies, fair to fine. (Image)

1865 cover addressed to Duncan Whyte to Scotland franked FFQ 6d & 2 x 2d p12½ (10d rate via Marseilles but no rate endorsement shown), each stamp canc unclear "25"barred obliterator. B/s very fine "QUEENSTOWN/OTAGO. NZ"cds NO 9 65, part red DUNEDIN cds NO 14 65 & 3 GB receipt cds 12-14 JA 66 incl Oban. Good condition. (Image)

1865 cover to GB, endorsed "Via Marseilles", with 3-colour franking of FFQ 6d red-brown (2 margins), 3d brown-lilac (3 margins), both imperf star wmk, & 1d carmine star wmk p12½, canc Auckland duplex pmk AP 7 65. Unclear receipt b/s. Opening faults & small deficit on back. (Image)

1866 cover franked FFQ 2d blue star wmk p12½, canc Dunedin duplex d/s AU 4 66, addressed to Waihemo Valley (North Otago). Receipt m/s on back "W 6/8/66"("W"for Waihemo), written by Postmaster, Waihemo. The Waihemo PO opened 7 Feb 1865 but did not receive a d/s until 1887. Use of manuscript cancel postulated by Marshall (1983) but no example recorded. Some added notation on front. Creasing & 1cm edge tear. (Image)

1866 cover to GB "Via Marseilles", franked FFQ 4d deep rose SG 119 & 6d red-brown SG 122 p12½, canc 2 unclear strikes of "11" barred obliterator (of Napier). B/s fine Napier A-type cds JY 14 66 & London receipt cds SP 14 66. Good condition. (Image)

1869 Coromandel goldmining exhibit page with a "New York Gold Mining Co" share certificate (1869) in fine cond (scarce); an 1872 Grahamstown tradesman'stoken featuring a quartz extraction mill & 2d blue FFQ (SG 115) cancelled with an A/3 duplex (Thames). Grahamstown and Shortland joined to become Thames around 1870. (Image)

1869 cover franked FFQ 1/- p12½ star wmk (GU, canc Dunedin duplex d/s NO 12 69, endorsed "Immediate"(by sender), to clergyman in Port Chalmers (receipt "PORT CHALMERS/OTAGO. NZ" cds same day). This cover must have been considerably overweight (the 1/- rate covered between 2 & 3 ounces, versus 2d for a ½ ounce letter). An extraordinary rate on an inland cover (which travelled no more than about 10 miles!) Good condition. (Image)

1881 cover to addressee at "Dry River Station, Waihenga, Wellington" NZ, franked FU 1880 1/- orange-brown, plate 13, rose spray wmk, SG 151 (cat £1800 on cover). Canc London W.C.7 duplex d/s MR 14 81. NZ receipt b/s of Wellington & Featherston (A-types) 6 MY 81. No Waihenga cds, though a PO opened there in 1876 & an A-type is known in use March 1880-Dec 1881. Good condition (minor soiling). Very scarce franking. Note: the stamp has been carefully lifted to verify the wmk & hinged back in place. (Image)

1887 Soldier's concession rate inward cover to NZ "Australian colonies" ex India from active serviceman William P Underwood, bearing 9p (SG 77) & labelled "Via Pont de Galle and Melbourne" in red. Countersigned by "Commanding Officer" on the side with Underwood's rank & regimental attachment along the top. Indian & NZ (Oamaru & RTPO) cds on reverse. Aged cover with tatty edging. Remarkably clear 4 page letter details his situation & states "Mr Gladstone should be hanged". Also several pages of research notes. (Image)

1900 NZ Post Office public poster (14 x 22.5cm, black on cream) headed "PENNY-POSTAGE" & dated 4th Dec 1900, for distribution to every post office in the country, "To be posted in a conspicuous place", announcing the inauguration of the new reduced basic letter rate (from 2d) both within NZ & to most of the British Empire (excl Australia) as from 1st Jan 1901. Printing order code: "[10,000/12/1900-8266". Three horiz folds (& minor separation at end of one), otherwise good condition. An important document in postal history. Rare. (Image)

1930 Wreck Mail RMS Tahiti salvaged foolscap envelope ex Dunedin, bearing indistinct "J" class cancel, originally addressed to "Carl O. Peterson Esq /c/- Byrd Antarctic Expedition/Hotel Biltrose/New York/U.S.A." The cover bears a purple "Postage Stamp Lost in Transit/G.P.O. N.Y. (D.D.)" h/s on the front across the Dunedin cancel & on the rear "Received in bad condition at ..." purple h/s with "GPO/Byl" inserted in pencil and a Grand Central Annex N.Y. / SEP 6 /10-am/1930 machine cancel on the rear. In addition, a US Post Office Department Officially Sealed label across the smaller of two flaps with an undated oval New York cancellation. The cover was subsequently redirected, in blue pencil, to "c/- Sir Henry Hotel/365 E 16 St./Bklyn N.Y." Also on the front, lightly written in pencil (this was on the ill-fated SS Tahiti) & a small piece of paper affixed with typed "Saved from the illfated/R.M.S "Tahiti". Carl Oscar Peterson was the radio operator on Byrd's 1928-30 Antarctic Expedition. Some 40+ mail bags were salvaged from the ship before it sank on 17 Aug 1940 some 480 nautical miles from the Cook Isl. (Image)

1946 China-Manchuria Harbin blockade cover ex NZ, with 1d Peace (+ a 2nd adhesive subsequently lost in transit) ex South Dunedin (?) JL 46 addressed to Harbin, China. Cover bears boxed 2-line cachet in red “Mail route to destination / blockaded, return to sender” (a quite good impression). Rear bears Chinese bilingual Changchun 17.9.35/24 cogwheel cds, Wellington C.1 / Returned Letter Office 27 JA 47 cds & purple Return to Sender pointing finger cachet (& another on front). Good condition. Rare. Note 1: The Chinese d/s year “35” refers to the 35th year of the Chinese Republic, which commenced in 1911 following the overthrow of the Chinese Empire. Note 2: Russian troops occupied Harbin & other parts of Manchuria after the USSR declared war on Japan on 8 Aug 1945. In April 1946, control of Harbin was passed to the Chinese communist army (the CPLA). Changchun in Northeast China remained under control of the Chinese Nationalist forces & for a time there was no postal communication with Harbin (266 km away). Only 3 covers with this blockade cachet (applied in Shanghai, 2025 km from Harbin) were recorded in a census in the Collectors’ Club journal of March/April 2011. This is likely to be a 4th example & the only one known from NZ. With copy of relevant article & map. (Image)