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August, 2017

Members

• Stockholmia 2019 added.
• RSC Auction, August 2017 added.
• RSC Journal No.265, Sept 2017 added.

Explore

• Missions – Monte Cassino Mission added.
• Missions – New cover added to Sinde Mission.
• Missions – New cover added to Solusi Mission.
• Missions – New covers added to American Board Mission – Mt Silinda
• Missions – New covers added to American Board Mission – Chikore
• Postcards – Work on SAPSCO has begun.
• Post Office – Abercorn added.
• Post Office – Antelope Mine added.
• Post Office – Arcturus added.
• Post Office – Beatrice added
• Post Office – Beatrice Mine added.
• Post Office – Bembesi added.
• Post Office – Bindura added.
• Post Office – Belmont added
• Post Office – Bushtick added.
• Post Office – Chakari added.
• Post Office – Dadaya added.
• Post Office – Eastnor added.
• Post Office – Filabusi added.
• Post Office – Fort Rixon added.
• Post Office – Greystone added.
• Post Office – Gwaai updated.
• Post Office – Gwaai Settlement added.
• Post Office – Gwaai Siding added.
• Post Office – Hunter’s Road added.
• Post Office – Mashaba added.
• Post Office – Mazoe added.
• Post Office – Motapa Mine added.
• Post Office – Odzi added.
• Post Office – Queens Mine added.
• Post Office – Queens Park added.
• Post Office – Raylton added.
• Post Office – Umfeseri added.

July 2017

Members

• Members Meetings – Europe added!
• Auctions – Philatelic Collector’s Series Sale (Oct 2017)

Explore

• Advertising Covers – New cover added to Meikle’s Hotel
• Advertising Covers – New cover added to Victoria Falls Hotel.
• Advertising Covers – New cover added to Umtali & District Publicity Association
• Advertising Covers – New cover added to Radio Ltd.
• Advertising Covers – New cover added to A F Philip
• Advertising Covers – New cover added to Rhodesian Industries.
• Advertising Covers – New cover added to Kodak.
• Advertising Covers – New covers added A J Storey
• Advertising Covers – New cover added to T Forbes & Sons.
• Advertising Covers – London & Lancashire Insurance Co., Ltd.
• Advertising Covers – Cecil Roberts & Letts added.
• Advertising Covers – H E Jackson & Co Ltd added.
• Advertising Covers – Duly & Co receipt added.
• Advertising Covers – Shire Highlands Railway Company Ltd
• Advertising Covers – I. Conforzi (Tea & Tobacco) Ltd
• Advertising Covers – Rhodesia Railways covers added.
• Cinderellas – New Friends of Rhodesia stationery item added.
• Government – New cover added to Rhodesian Native Labour Bureau
• Mines – Prospecting Licence added.
• Mines – Inspection Certificate added.
• Military – Bush War Military Post Offices added.
• Postcards – A H McLachlan & Co added.
• Postcards – Lennon Ltd Personalised Postcards added.
• Postcards – EBS Mercer completed.
• Post Office – Save Your Envelopes (78071)
• Post Office – 1965 Churchill Display Card
• Post Office – 1965 Independence Display Card
• Post Office – Stamp Release Bulletin (21195)
• Post Office – Philatelic Bulletins added (Rhodesia/ZIMPost)
• Post Office – Acknowledgement of Receipt (39)
• Post Office – Baggage Label
• Post Office – Postal Notice 13 of 1932
• Post Office – Depositor’s Book
• Post Office – Save Your Envelopes (71036)
• Post Office – Provisional Receipt (686/82)
• Post Office – Stamp Savings Card (608)
• Post Office – Stamp Savings Card (119)
• Post Office – Acknowledgement of Receipt (1944) 
• Post Office – Acknowledgement of Receipt (1945) 
• Post Office – Message Form (1410)
• Post Office – Post Office Letter Bill
• Post Office – The British South Africa Company’s Telegraphs
• Post Office – The British South Africa Company’s Telegraphs (467)
• Post Office – Department of Posts and Telegraphs Receipt (592)
• Post Office – Receipt for Rental for a Private Letter X
• Post Office – Receipt for Rental for a Private Letter X (BSAC)
• Post Office – Form of Certificate of Issue
• Post Office – Post Office Telegraphs, S.Rhodesia (932)
• Post Office – Post Office Telegraphs, S.Rhodesia (46981)
• Post Office – Inquiry into a Missing Letter, Parcel or Packet (27312)
• Post Office – Reclamation (29767)
• Post Office – Reclamation (1956)
• Post Office – Reclamation (527)
• Post Office – Particulars of a Missing Letter, Parcel or Packet (8242)
• Post Office – Particulars of a Missing Letter, Parcel or Packet (14846)
• Post Office – Gadzema added.
• Printers – New Order for BSAC 1909 Arms Overprints 233002
• Printers – New Order for BSAC 1909 Arms Overprints 241470
• Printers – New Order for BSAC 1898 Arms Issues 196904
• Printers – New images added for Order 182067
• Printers – New image added for Order 356677
• Printers – New image added for Order 233228
• Printers – New image added for Order 230512
• Printers – New images added for Order 14405
• Printers – New images added for Order 14445
• Printers – New images added for Order 24753
• Printers – New images added for Order 356677
• Printers – New images added for Order 141704
• Printers – New images added for Order 20603
• Regions – 1964 Definitive Overprints
• Regions – 20th Anniversary Central African Airways
• Regions – Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965
• Regions – 75th Anniversary of the Post Office Savings Bank
• Revenue – Spencer’s Garage and Service Station added.
• Revenue – A F Phillip & Co Court Document added.

June 2017

• New RSCfix Campaigns added. These campaigns allow people to correct digitised texts of old newspapers.
• Engage > Events
  • WESTPEX 2018 details added.
  • Preliminary details for 2018 Annual Conference added.
• Explore > Advertising Covers
  • Typocrafters Ltd added.
  • New cover added to Grand Hotel, Bulawayo
  • Victoria Falls Hotel added
  • New cover added to Meikle’s Hotel – Salisbury
  • Nyasaland Pharmacies added.
• Explore > Cinderellas
  • Friends of Rhodesia Association
  • National Society for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
• Explore > Mines
  • Certificate of Registration added.
  • Certificate of Special Registration added.
• Explore > Postcards
  • Universities’ Mission to Central Africa added.
  • Unattributed postcards section added.
  • EBS Mercer has been completed.
  • New Umtali and District Publicity Association series:
    • Series I
    • Series II
  • New Tokim VF – Victoria Falls (Colour) series added.
  • New A J Storey Type IV added.
  • A page for unattributed postcards has been added.
  • MacLehose & Co printers added.
  • Victor Clark series added.
  • New Clark’s Curio Store Animal Series added.
  • Nyasaland Pharmacies added.
  • Two new Geo C Brown Postcard series added:
    • Type III White Border (Red Imprint)
    • Type IV
  • R O Fuesslein added.
  • T D Ravenscroft added.
  • Updates to Umtali Printing & Publishing Co.
    • Rhodesian Advertiser I is now W.H.S. – Rhodesian Advertiser I
    • A new Rhodesian Advertiser I has been added.
  • 11 new images added to Kingstons – Tour Rhodesia and Nyasaland
  • Rhodesia Railways Victoria Falls Hotel added:
    • Mardon Printers Black Series
    • Mardon Printers Olive Series
    • Typocrafters (Pvt) Ltd Blue Series
• Explore > Printers
  • Printing Orders added for:
    • 1935 Large Waterfalls
    • 1954 QE II Definitives (Rhodesia & Nyasaland)
    • 1898 Arms Issues
    • 1896 Arms Issues
  • New image added to 1937 GVI Def – Order: 20268
  • New image added to 1937 GVI Def – Order: 16567
  • New image added to 1937 GVI Def – Order: 82815
  • New image added to 1924 Admirals – Order: 233228
  • New order for 1924 Admirals added –  Order: 230512
• Explore > Revenue
  • Mining Commissioner: Lo Magondis added.

May 2017

• Explore > Advertising Covers
  • Roan Antelope Mines Ltd cover added
  • Rehabilitation and Prevention of Tuberculosis added.
  • More Johnson and Fletcher covers added.
• Explore > Cinderellas
  • New images added to many of the RAPT series.
• Explore > Collect
  • New Online Resources section added.
  • AlbumEasy added.
• Explore > Postcards
  • Philpott & Collins completed.
  • Rhodesian Railways Mardon Series added (including booklet)
  • Percy M Clark completed.
  • Valentine & Sons listings added.
  • Umtali Printing & Publishing added.
  • J M Mein added.
  • Strachan & Co added
  • McCorquodale & Co Ltd added.
  • E Peters postcards added.

April 2017

• Explore > Advertising Covers
  • Added Rhodesian Milling & Manufacturing Co.Ltd
  • Added Garlick’s Office Equipment (Remington Typewriter Agency)
  • Added Rhodesian Industries Co. (PVT) Ltd
  • Added T Forbes & Sons
• Explore > Airmails
  • New covers added for 1934 First Flight to Australia
• Explore > Cinderellas
  • Added Visit Scenic Selukwe
  • Added Come to Livingstone to see the Victoria Falls.
  • Added technical details and missing series for RAPT 1955-1979.
  • Added Gloria Flour.
• Explore > Events
  • New cover added to 1975 Victoria Falls Bridge Conference
• Explore > Mines
  • Extra Prospecting Licence
  • £1 Prospecting Licence
  • Protection Certificate
• Explore > Postcards
  • Added Rhodesia Railways:
    • 1936 Empire Exhibition
    • Twelve Views of Victoria Falls Series I & II
  • A Harrison businesses have all been updated:
    • A Harrison
    • Bulawayo News Agency
    • Crumplin & Harrison
    • Harrison’s Stationery Stores
    • Preece & Harrison
    • Crumplin & Harrison Ltd
  • Added Gwelo Stationery Stores.
  • Updated A J Storey:
    • 1920’s series split into three series based on reviewed data
    • New images added to 1908 BCA series.
  • Added new Tokim series:
    • U Series – Umtali
    • E T Brown
    • Greetings and Best Wishes
  • Added new Tucks series:
    • 1925 Empire Exhibition
    • Glazed Photo Series B
    • Mandala P.C. – Victoria Falls
    • Mandala P.C.3 – Victoria Falls
    • Nyasaland Pavillion East African Court (Empire Exhibition)
    • Photochrome Series A
    • Real P.C. Series
    • Real Photograph Series
    • Rhodesia Railways Ltd Series of Picture Postcards
    • Sepia Postcard Series B
    • Southern Rhodesia Publicity Bureau (Unnumbered)
  • Added Kimble Productions
  • Added Philpott & Collins:
    • 1902 Local View Series
    • 1904/5 Pictorial Views added.
  • Percy M Clark Red Series now broken into three distinct series.
• Explore > Post Offices & Postmarks
  • Added Postal Notices for 1898/1899/1901
  • Added Postal Notices for 1937 & 1938
• Explore > Printers
  • Order No.s added for:
    • 293574
    • 292315
    • 136433
    • 178309
    • 233228
  • Pre-Production added for:
    • Central African Rhodes Centenary Exhibition (SR)
    • Rhodes Centenary (SR)
  • Dies and Plate details added for SR GVI Definitive Stationery
  • Added Pre-Production for 1924 Admirals (Revenues only).
• Collect > Publications
  • 1966 CAA Article from Rhodesian Commentary published.
• Explore > Regions
  • Added 1938 George VI Definitive Stationery
  • Added George VI Air Letters (1944-1953)
• Explore > Revenue & Fiscals
  • Added Robert Edward Codrington profile.
  • New section added (in-progress)
  • Added Native Affairs Dept.
  • 1890 Mashonaland Mining Regulation No.1 added
  • Department of Native Affairs added
  • Matabeleland Native Labour Bureau added.
  • Native Labour Bureau added.
  • Rhodesian Native Labour Bureau added.
  • Rhodesian Milling & Manufacturing Co.Ltd added.
  • D Knight & Co added.
  • Cairns Ltd added.
  • Mine offices & Mining Commissioners added.
• Collect > Catalogues
  • New additions and updates to the Encyclopedia of Rhodesian and Zimbabwean Postage Stamps Since 1964

March 2017

• Explore > Postcards
  • Added biography on J E Hughes
  • Added more photos to Smart & Copley Solo Series.
  • Three new series added to Clark’s Curio for Percy M Clark:
    • Black Series
    • Bromide Series
    • Number Only Series
    • No. Series
    • Red Series
    • Script Series (several variations).
  • New Lennon’s Series A postcard series added.
  • Added British Petroleum (BP)
  • Tokim:
    • New images & Back Type added to Clark’s Curio Store.
    • New ‘G Series’ added.
    • New ‘SR Series’ added.
    • New ‘S Series B&W’ added.
    • New ‘S Series Colour’ added.

February 2017

• Explore > Advertising covers
  • M Basch & Co added
  • Selborne Hotel added
  • Umtali and District Publicity Association added.
  • The Union Agencies added.
  • New cover added to South African Canvas Co. Ltd
  • Royal Hotel Umtali added.
  • Spencer’s Airways and Garage.
  • Johnson & Fletcher added.
  • New cover added to Puzey & Payne Ltd.
  • McCullagh & Bothwell added.
• Explore > Events
  • 1936 Empire Exhibition added.
  • 1924 Empire Exhibition added.
• Explore > Postcards
  • All images for Payne’s Studios/Camera House added
  • Work begun on Tokim postcards – images added for a number of series.
  • All images for Silver’s Studio’s now added.
  • 1936 Empire Exhibition (Umtali and District Publicity Association) added.
  • 1936 Empire Exhibition (Department of Publicity, Southern Rhodesia)
  • Pictorial Publications Syndicate added.
  • Two new Tokim series added:
    • K Series – Kitwe
    • Clark’s Curio Store
  • Smart & Copley – we are about 90% completed on this work.
  • Raphael Tucks & Sons Ltd started (in-progress).
  • Tucks 1924 Empire Exhibition Series 1 & 2 added.
• Explore > Printers
  • Order No.336125 added (Waterlow & Sons)
• Explore > Revenue Documents
  • New section!
  • Hepsworths Ltd added.
  • Bulawayo School of Shorthand & Typing added.
• Collect > Dealers
  • Bidstart removed (Bidstart is now Hipstamp/Hippostcard)
  • HipPostcard added.
  • Rhodesian Study Circle Marketplace added.(Facebook buy/sell/swap)
• Collect > Publications > Memoirs
  • Upcoming Memoir 22 added
  • Machine Cancellations of Rhodesia added
• Collect > Publications > Gibbons Stamp Monthly
  • Cover of 1963 issue added for World Tobacco Congress series.

January 2017

• Added Encyclopedia of Rhodesian & Zimbabwean stamps since 1964.
• Collect > Publications:
  • Journal of the Rhodesian Study Circle, March 2017
• Explore > Advertising covers:
  • Update to Lennon Ltd.
  • New page for Harry S Hopkins & Co., Ltd
  • New page for Norwich UnionLife Insurance Company (Added)
  • New page for Armasi Vithaldas (Added)
  • G North & Sons (new cover added)
  • Kingstons Ltd added
• Explore > Cinderellas:
  • Cover added for 1958 RAPT series
  • Cover added for 1968 RAPT series
  • Page added for 1960 RAPT series
  • Page added for 1961 RAPT series
  • Page added for 1962 RAPT series
  • Page added for 1963 RAPT series
  • Page added for 1964 RAPT series
  • Cover added for 1968 RAPT series
  • Cover added for 1978 RAPT series
• Explore > Events:
  • 12th Postal Union Congress
• Explore > Postcards:
  • Lennon Ltd Bulawayo – Postcards images added for series 1, 2 & 3
  • Lennon Ltd Bulawayo – Addition bio info added for Edwin Yerbury (photographer)
  • A J Storey – New Postcards added
  • A J Storey – Discovery of new series. 1908 is now broken into B.C.A/Nyasaland.
  • Payne’s Studios – Camera House series updated. Still a work in progress uploading photos.
  • Kingstons Ltd – Tour Rhodesia & Nyasaland
• Explore > Printers:
  • More Edward VIII essays added
  • Northern Rhodesia Central African Exhibition added.
  • Northern Rhodesia 1929 Postage Dues added
  • Northern Rhodesia 1963 Lusaka Trial added.
  • Northern Rhodesia 1953 Definitive Series added.
  • Southern Rhodesia 1937 George VI Definitive – Proof 7121 added.
  • British Central Africa 1903 Edward VII Definitive
• Explore > Regions:
  • All Northern Rhodesia stamps issues (1925 – 1952) including Presentation/Productions/Pre-Production material has been added.

Prior Years

• 2016