Classic Stamps

Paul Wales and Elaine Bruce of Classic Stamps Ltd
welcome you to their website.
We hope you will find something of interest for your collection.
The items on offer are being constantly added to.
The more recent ones can be seen by
clicking on the links in blue text in the column on the right of this page.
Stamps listed are generally shown in Stanley Gibbons catalogue number order.
Clicking on individual items may bring up a fuller description.
Some scans may not show the true colour. This is due to having used various different scanners (some replaced scanners have different settings).
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Collections

New Zealand Collections

Overseas Collections

New Zealand Definitives

Pre-Stamp	Chalon (FFQ) Proofs, Speciman, Reprints	Chalon (FFQ) Imperforate
Chalon (FFQ) Perforated	1874 1st Side Face Issues	1882 2nd Side Face Issues
1898-1908 Pictorials	1901 1d Universal	Halfpenny Mt Cook
1909 1d Dominion	1909 KEVII Issues	1915 KGV Recess Prints
1915 KGV Surface prints	1926 Admirals	1935 Pictorials
1938 KGVI	1953 QEII	1960 Definitives
1967-69 Definitives	1970 Definitives	2023 KCIII
Miscellaneous Definitives

New Zealand Commemmoratives

Commemoratives - Pre WWII

Commemoratives - 1940 Centennial

Commemoratives - Post WWII

New Zealand Health

Health Pre-decimal period

Health Decimal period

New Zealand Christmas

Pre-decimal Xmas

Decimal period Xmas

New Zealand Booklets

Pre-decimal booklets

Decimal booklets

Alternative booklets

New Zealand Airmail

Airmail Stamps and covers

Pigeon Post

New Zealand Life Insurance

Pre-decimal Life Insurance

Decimal Life Insurance

New Zealand Postage Dues

	1899 Postage Dues		1902 Postage Dues		1939 Postage Dues
	Miscellaneous Postage Dues

New Zealand Revenues

1867 Revenues	1882 Revenues	1931 Revenues
1939 overprints Revenues	Decimal Revenues	Miscellaneous Revenues
Fiscally used Revenues

New Zealand Express

Express stamps and covers

Cinderellas

NZ and Other Cinderellas

Miscellaneous

Perfins

N.Z. Collections

N.Z. Postcards

ChCh Exhibition postcards

New Zealand Postal History

	Postmarks		Postal History		Air Mail
	Meter mail

New Zealand Postal Stationery

Postal Stationery Postcards	Postal Stationery Reply Cards	Postal Stationery Lettercards
Postal Stationery Registered Envelopes	Postal Stationery Envelopes	Postal Stationery Newspaper Wrappers
Postal Stationery Education Postcards	Postal Stationery Education Envelopes	Postal Stationery POW Aerogrammes
Postal Stationery Private stationery	Postal Stationery OHMS Stationery	Postal Stationery Miscellaneous Stationery

Literature

Literature - Polar

Literature - Postal Stationery

Literature - Miscellaneous

Antarctic/Arctic

Antarctic cover collections	Antarctic - New Zealand Pre-WWII	Antarctic - New Zealand Post WWII
Sub-Antarctic Islands	Antarctic Postcards	Antarctic Cinderellas and Labels
Argentine Antarctic	Australian Antarctic Territory	British Antarctic Territory
Chilean Antarctic	Chinese Antarctic	Falkland Is Dependencies
French Antarctic Territory	German Antarctic	Italian Antarctic
Japanese Antarctic - JARE	Norwegian Antarctic	South Africa Antarctic SANAE
USA Antarctic	Miscellaneous Antarctic/Arctic	Arctic

Pacific Islands

Aitutaki	Christmas Island	Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Cook Islands	Fiji	French Polynesia
Gilbert and Ellice Islands	Nauru	New Caledonia
New Hebrides (French)	Niue	Norfolk Island
N.W.P.I.	Palau	Papua New Guinea
Penrhyn	Pitcairn Island	Samoa
Solomon Islands	Tokelau	Tonga
Tuvalu	Vanuatu-British New Hebrides	Wallis and Futuna
Misc. Pacific Islands	Pacific Postcards

British Commonwealth

Ascension	Australia	British Guiana
Canada	Caribbean	Ceylon
Falkland Islands	Gibraltar	Great Britain
Guernsey	Hong Kong	India
Ireland	Isle of Man	Jersey
Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika	Malta	Mauritius
Pakistan	Singapore	South Africa
St Helena	Tristan da Cunha	Miscellaneous Commonwealth

Foreign

Arctic	Argentina	China
Faroe Islands	France	Germany
Greenland	Italy	Japan
Korea	Macau	Monaco
Netherlands	Sweden	Switzerland
Taiwan	USA	World Cinderellas
Miscellaneous World	Overseas Collections

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1898 Pictorials. 6d perf 11 (no wmk.) Fine used (6 Feb 1903) block of four on 'Lisbon Superfine' paper. With RPSNZ certificate. CP E14d, SG 265cd.

1906 Christchurch Exhibition. 3d in gutter block of four. Unhinged mint. Crease down central gutter. Very scarce. C72.P S3a, SG 372.

Falkland Islands. 1928 2½d on 2d provisional surcharge. With certificate. SG 115. Price NZ$1,850 (Incl GST). RARE.

1908 Pictorials. 6d reduced in deep carmine-pink. Perf 14 block of four (3 are UHM). CP E15a, SG 376.

5d KEVII. Two-perf pair. Very fine used. An excellent example. CP H5d, SG 402a.

Chinese Republic. 1940-41 Martyrs.
1¢ yellow-orange horizontal pair, imperforate vertically.
Mint. VERY SCARCE. SG catalogue 508a.
Catalogue value £250.

2020 NZ2020 $5.20 mini-sheet. UHM. The silver metallic surfacing creates a poor scanned image. Scarce. Listed in the Len Jury catalogue.

PNG. 2001 50t on 25t Olympic Games O/P. Used with 'Surcharge Value omitted'. SG 904a.

1970 25¢. Lower perfs misplaced resulting in short stamp plus no text at base. With normal showing missing text. LHM. CP P17b, SG 930b.

KGV 6d Official. Used (29 June 1921) block of eight in four TWO-PERF PAIRS. Light crease across two pair. Must be a very scarce used block. CP KO8c, SG O102c.