Virtual Competitions
Virtual Competitions Rules
So in summary, there are three parts to our virtual competitions:
1: The Livermore (16 sheets) – according to the Livermore rules see below
2: The Postcard Competition (16 sheets) – also see below
3.: The Single Sheet competition
Entries must please be clearly marked “Livermore” or “Postcard” or “Single Sheet”, as the case may be, In the covering email.
The Single Sheet competition is intended to allow maximum flexibility in entering an exhibit of ANY aspect of Rhodesian philately – for example stamps, postal history, postal stationery, artists, postmarks, open class (for example a story of an addressee e.g. Borrow, Rogers, Oates, Selous etc), ephemera, air mail, railways, revenue etc etc. The idea is to spread the net as wide as possible, to HAVE FUN putting the exhibits together and to SHARE our material and thought process on the subject chosen. The Zoom meetings that are being held through Melbourne, Manchester and California and the Journals give a taste of the vast array of material and subjects that may be exhibited.
Further information and the guidelines are set out below:
- Exhibitors, after assembling the exhibit, will scan the individual page(s) and send to the email address mentioned below.
- The exhibits will be judged by appointed members of the RSC.
- The exhibits will be available for viewing on the RSC Website. As exhibits ‘arrive’, they will be placed on the website.
- There will be a prize for the best exhibit in each competition.
- Members may submit more than one entry.
- Each page of your exhibit must be scanned at 300dpi as a separate PDF or J-PEG file. (i.e. up to 16 files to be uploaded).
- Sheet numbers should be placed on the front bottom right corner of each page.
- Exhibits must be forwarded by 16 April, 2021, to rhodesianstudycircle@outlook.com
Rules for the:
Please Contact Us for more information.
Virtual Competitions Entries 2021
Livermore
- David Livingstone (Walter Herdzik)
- Humble Farthing (George Stewart)
- 1899 ‘Small Arms’ Cards inscribed ‘Rhodesia’ (RSC 11 and 11a) (Adrian de Bourbon)
- Early Bechuanaland Telegraph Forms (Peter Thy)
- An overview of postmarks on ½d, 1d and 1½d Rhodesia Admirals 1913-25:
commodities price wobbles, conflict and internal mail (Ian Menzies) - Advertising Covers with Southern Rhodesia King George VI Definitives (Sean Burke)
- Southern Rhodesia – Airmail Letter Rates to the UK – January 1932 to August 1954 (Adrian de Bourbon)
- Companions on the journey (Sean Burke)
- King George V Southern Rhodesia 1924-1935 (Diederik Viljoen)
Postcard
- Postcards – (Peter Hickman)
- A 1904 and 1905 view of Rhodesia through the postcards published by E. Peters
of Cape Town (Sean Burke) - Artistry and Colour tinting on early Victoria Falls Postcards (Mark Thomas)
- Early views in and around Salisbury and Umtali through Strachan & Co. published postcards (Sean Burke)
Single Sheet
- Meet you at the Meikles (Ian Menzies)
- In the orbit of official money (Mark Thomas)
- Advice of Money – Revenue charge (Patrick Flanagan)
- Admiral, DIe IIIA, Plate 3R on Cover (David Spivack)
- Admiral, Waxed Moustache (David Spivack)
- Admiral, The Peach (David Spivack)
- Northern Rhodesia Postage Due & FFC Cover (Walter Herdzik)
- Rhodesia & Nyasaland Returned Letter Branch Mail (Walter Herdzik)
- Cover with unusual wax seal (Dirk Kind)
- Roller Skating Rink – Salisbury 1910 (Peter Hickman)
- Internment Camp Fort Victoria – Internment Camp 5 (Dirk Kind)
- WW II Park River Cover Front (Dirk Kind)
- WW2 Cover – with Censor Marks (Dirk Kind)
- Red BONC 953 (Dirk Kind)
- Spectacular Zambia stamp perforation incident (Mark Thomas)
- A 1938 Entire from missionary Maurice E. Persons, Old Umtali, to his mother in Spokane, Washington, USA. (Sean Burke)
- 1970 Malawi Commonwealth Games Exhibit (Stuart Ross)
- Late Usage of the 1917 BSAC 1 1/2d Stamp (Adrian de Bourbon)
- Second burial place of the Shangani Patrol (Sean Burke)
- Abercorn – An early BCA postal stationery card (Mark Thomas)
- 1906 Postcard from the Killarney Mine. Northern Rhodesia (Sean Burke)
- A trip to the Falls (Adrian de Bourbon)
Virtual Competitions Entries 2020
Livermore
- A Study of the BSAC 10/- and £1 Rhodesia Admiral Plates, States and Colours (David Spivack)
- The British South Africa Company 1905 Victoria Falls Issue (Jeremy Jackman)
- S. Rhodesia WWII Civilian and RAF Censorship (George Stewart)
- The 1893 Mashonaland Postal Stationery Cards (Andrew Wilkie)
- Southern Rhodesia Postal Stationery KGV Field Marshal Series 1931-1936 (David Spivack)
- Birds on Stamps of Malawi – 1988 Definitive Set from Design to Issue and Beyond (Stuart Ross)
- Quitrent (Adrian de Bourbon)
- A Study of the One Pound Double Head on Fiscal Document (Gunnar Strehmel)
- Rhodesia Penny Double Head – fiscally used (Sean Burke)
- Mpika (Mark Thomas)
- 1896 Cape of Good Hope Overprints (Patrick Flanagan)
- Frédéric Christol: Artist and Evangelist (1850-1933) (Ian Menzies)
- Northern Rhodesia 1963 Definitives (Rod Kantor)
- Rhodesia & Nyasaland 1954-1963 (Diederik Viljoen)
- Airgraphs sent to Kenneth Brant while stationed
with the Rhodesia Airforce Training Group (Jeremy Jackman)
Postcard
- Falls and slip ups (Mark Thomas)
- Early Postcards of the Paris Missionary Society in Barotseland (Sean Burke)
- Matabele Rising Reply Paid Card 1896 (Ian Menzies)
Virtual
- The Printings of the 2/- Double Head Fiscally Used (Gunnar Strehmel)
- Mother I am coming home (Peter Thy)
- Rare Fiscal Cancels on 6d Double Heads (Gunnar Strehmel)
- A story of a Rhodesian farmer (Sean Burke)
- Aerogrammes and the promotion of tourism in Rhodesia & Nyasaland (Ian Menzies)
- Various shapes and sizes of commercial envelopes used in Rhodesia 1897-1906 (Ian Menzies)
- Caps Off! For the Southern Rhodesia Admirals (Mark Thomas)
- William Thompson – American Missionary to Mount Selinda (Sean Burke)
- Picture Postcards used in Rhodesia 1902-1904 (Sean Burke)
- Fiscal datestamps on Double Heads (Gunnar Strehmel)
- Salisbury Telegraph Cancel (Peter Hickman)