Publications
Introduction
Lindsay has published a number of articles, some original and some jointly; in particular a series with Dr Alan Craig, PhD, FRPSNZ on “New Zealand Officially Sealed”.
The Visit of the Great White Fleet to Auckland 1908
Winner of the Chas Lilley award 2024 for the best published article in the “Postcard Pillar”, journal of the New Zealand Postcard Society Inc.
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Officially Sealed
- A S Craig, L G Chitty; The New Zealand Stamp Collector, Vol 97, No. 1, 2017; “Post Office “Found Open – Officially Sealed” Labels Part 1 – 1882 – 1897 Labels Types 1 & 2.
Click here to view… - A S Craig, L G Chitty; The New Zealand Stamp Collector, Vol 97, No. 2, 2017; “Post Office “Found Open – Officially Sealed” Labels Part 2 – 1897 – 1904 Type 3 Labels
- A S Craig, L G Chitty; The New Zealand Stamp Collector, Vol 97, No. 4, 2017; “Post Office “Found Open – Officially Sealed” Labels Part 3; 1903 – 1920 Types 4, 5 and 6 Labels.
- A S Craig, L G Chitty; The New Zealand Stamp Collector, Vol 99, No. 1, 2019; “Post Office “Found Open – Officially Sealed” Labels Part 4; 1928 – 1963 Type 7 Labels.
- A S Craig, L G Chitty; The New Zealand Stamp Collector, Vol 99, No. 4, 2019; “Post Office “Found Open – Officially Sealed” Labels Part 5; 1953 – 1966 Type 8 & 9 Labels.
- L G Chitty, A S Craig; The New Zealand Stamp Collector, Vol 101, No. 3, 2021; “New Zealand Post Office and New Zealand Post “OFFICIALLY SEALED” Tapes Part 6″.
- L G Chitty; The New Zealand Stamp Collector, Vol 101, No. 1, 2021; “Type 6 Officially Sealed Label – First Recorded Copy on Cover”.
To follow in this series is:
- “Other methods” of Officially Sealing.
Anyone who can add items to the censuses of the first 6 publications, please contact lindsay.chitty@xtra.co.nz
World War II Far East Correspondence to and from New Zealand
- World War II correspondence from the Far East during the Japanese Occupation:
L G Chitty; The New Zealand Stamp Collector, Vol 102, No. 3, 2022, pp103 – 112. - WWII prisoner of war and Civilian Internee correspondence NZ to the Far East during the Japanese Occupation.
L G Chitty; The New Zealand Stamp Collector; Vol 103 No. 1, March 2023, pp 14 – 20.
Princess Tonomaroanu – the scam of 1898!
This is the story about a Melbourne business man on a world cruise, who when he reached New York, was asked by as reporter for any newsworthy items. Apart from the purser who had been arrested for smuggling there was no news. The reporter was given some photographs and said he would weave a story around these. Read on…..
Request for Information
This edited request was published in the London Philatelist. Basically, anyone with copies of any Prisoner of War or Civilian Internee Correspondence from or to any New Zealanders taken prisoner in the Far East during the Japanese occupation WWII, 1942-45.
L G Chitty; The London Philatelist, Vol 125, No. 1432, page 64; WWII Japanese POW and Internee Correspondence to and from New Zealand.
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