Postmarks

Date: [198-]

By: Barnes, Olive Dorothy, active 1973

Reference: MSX-8060

Description: Typescript draft of a guide to New Zealand placenames and meanings. Each entry includes the postal district and location for the place, suburb or town mentioned. Also included is a descriptive meaning for each location. Some entries have been annotated at a later point in ink. Throughout the volume are examples of postmarks from New Zealand post offices. Many of the placenames cited are historic in origin, for example: Zalatown, which is a ghost town near Lyell. The inside cover depicts sketches of New Zealand Post Office buildings, old and new. Also included with the work is a useful bibliography. Source of title - Transcribed from item Other Titles - What's in a name? Origins and meanings of the place names used by the New Zealand Post Office. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with mss annotations

Date: 1939 - 1950 - 1940

By: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983

Reference: Eph-A-STATIONERY-Williams

Description: First day covers or advertising envelopes for: Canterbury Centennial International Philatelic Exhibition, 18-25 November 1950 (with illustration of John Robert Godley statue) "British battery specialists", Christchurch Battery Co. Ltd. 83 Kilmore Street. Century (Ajax) Exide C.B.C heavy duty batteries. [Postmarked 10 Feb 1940, With 1 penny NZ centennial stamp at top right] Beadweld, the Beadle Welding & Engineering Co Ltd [Postmarked 10 Feb 1940, With 1 penny NZ centennial stamp at top right] ATC Addington Timber Co. Ltd, timber joinery, 373 Lincoln Road, Christchurch SW1 [Postmarked 10 Feb 1940, With rubber postage stamp at top right] Chrevrolet, Buick. Cooke, Howlison & Co., Ltd, 55-59 Hanover Street, Dunedin C.1. [Postmarked 7 Feb 1940, With 1 penny NZ centennial stamp at top right] The Sun Newspapers Ltd [undated, unposted] Empire airmail (New Zealand) [Undated, unposted, ca 1938-1939] Quantity: 7 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Relief prints and stamps on envelopes, sizes varying around 95 x 150 mm. Transfers: Material from the same provenance housed at PA-Group-00076..

Date: 7 Sep 1839

By: Dickinson, Frederick, active 1839; Massey, William Ferguson (Rt Hon), 1856-1925

Reference: MS-Papers-0369

Description: Original letter and transcription from Frederick Dickinson writing from Kororareka to his uncle, John Dickinson of Holmfirth, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, describing his visit to Bay of Islands and Bay of Plenty mainly about a Ngapuhi attack repulsed by Bay of Plenty tribes and their preparations for eating 10 prisoners. He gives his impressions of the Maori race. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 pages, 3 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typed transcript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the Hon W F Massey

Date: 1993

From: Clark, Laurence [Klarc], 1949- :New Zealand Herald cartoons 1993

Reference: H-015-021

Description: Shows a postage-stamp, value $150,000 (with the value $72,857 crossed out), bearing a portrait of Jenny Shipley, wearing a "Vote National" badge. The postmark reads "Taxpayers' money to send out letters wooing women voters in marginal seats. Also refers to the centenary of women's suffrage Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photograph

Date: 4 Jul 1952

By: Hare, H, active 1952

Reference: MS-Papers-7740

Description: Letter from Kippenberger in response to one from Hare asking for postmarks on envelopes sent during World War Two Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (one piece). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with holograph autograph

Date: 1947-1953, n d

From: Blair, Mary Ramsay Ellen, 1875-1963 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0014-02

Description: Inward correspondence, mainly relating to Blair's writing (identified persons entered under Name); includes letter from Postmaster-General (1948) and many envelopes with monograms etc Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1842-1865

By: Bishop, John J, active 1970-1984

Reference: MS-Group-0638

Description: Comprises photocopies of material, mostly correspondence, relating to E W Stafford, the Lander and Boulcott families, James Edward Fitzgerald, William Wakefield, Cort Henry Schnackenberg and business correspondence (1842-1865) Source of title - Supplied Mr Bishop is a stamp dealer and collector and has acquired various items during his work Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies)