This resource is a compilation of research to support my collection of the 1935 – 47 New Zealand Pictorial Stamps. I have been collecting this as a specialist issue since 1966. The collection started with material handed down to me by my late father Ben Hutchinson, who was a part time stamp dealer in New Plymouth. I had some early schooling from my father soaking, and sorting hundreds of stamps as a child, learning how to recognise papers, watermarks, perforations and flaws

This Specialist Resource was developed by me for my personal use and I unashamedly have borrowed bits from other authorities.

My Sources are:

• Campbell Paterson – whose catalogue I find invaluable and numbering system I have adopted and is my “Bible”.
• Campbell Paterson also produce a Newsletter which features a segment called “Fifty years ago NZ Stamps as I have come to know them by Campbell Paterson”. I have reproduced relevant parts of this commentary.
• The Postage Stamps of New Zealand VOL II, 1950, edited by R.J. G Collins and C.W. Watts, for the Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand Inc. Chapter I which I have broken down and reproduced on a stamp by stamp basis.
• The 2s Pictorial of 1935 -42 Plate 1, 1951 by R.J.G. Collins. Ray Collins produced this masterpiece of research on this one stamp which I have reproduced in full in this resource.
• http://www.newzealandstamps.net/1935 pictorial stamp website,
• http://www.nzstamps.org.uk/35pictorials/blitz/blitz.html

Wayne Hutchinson     2016