Postmark Types of New Zealand
There is a fine discussion of the types of circular date stamps of New Zealand over on the Stamp Forum.
The original poster DK gives the 7 types very succinctly. With some notes of my own, these are:
'A' class or 'coin' cancel: I always called these "straight-line cancels" since the town name is in a straight line.
'B' class used mainly in the larger offices and by the military and other abnormal uses
'C' class is a basic circle often with inner part circle, DDMMYY with timsetamp
'F' class or 'squared circle' commonly used around the world
'G' class or 'concentric circle' introduced to Post Offices between 1894 to 1911
'H'
class or 'English cancellation' introduced into NZ in the late 1890's. Double outer circle, inner circle.
'J' class brought the introduction of the 'modern' Circular Date Stamp (CDS), similar to C but without the time stamp.
Now, I wonder if my big archive of postmark scans has got one of each ...
Class A: straight line:
Class B, D & E: no examples given
Class C: circle with timestamp
Class F: squared circle
Class G: concentric circles
Class H: English double circle: this does not sound familiar, but here is a single-circle with an English layout:
Class J: circle with station number instead of timestamp
And I found some other types that don't fit into these categories well:
These look like a parcel design and a revenue design:I even found a few modern pictorial designs:
It's always fun to find a new list of some specialty info, and see if my archive has those items. There are more pictures on the original forum post. Enjoy.












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