Virtual Competitions

Virtual Competitions Rules

We are now holding four RSC Competitions each year:

At the Conference:

A sixteen sheet Competition which includes the old sixteen sheet Postcard Competition. This competition will be known as the Conference Livermore Competition. 

A Single Sheet Competition which has no rules, known as the Conference Single Sheet Competition. 

Prior to the Conference:

A sixteen sheet Virtual Competition which includes the old sixteen sheet Postcard Competition. This competition will be known as the Virtual Livermore Competition.

A Single Sheet Competition which has no rules, known as the Virtual Single Sheet Competition. 

Thus we will have two Livermore Competitions – one for those present at the Conference and another, a virtual one, for those not present. The same format will apply to the Single Sheet Competition – one for those and the Conference and the other virtual. Members attending the Conference may also enter the Virtual Competitions. 

Members can submit as many entries as they like in each category.

All virtual entries must be submitted to Sean Burke by at least seven days prior to the Annual Conference.  They will be placed on the website in Members Exhibits including RSC Competition Entries. 

The rules for the Livermore, Postcard and Single Sheet competitions feature below:

Virtual entries must please be clearly marked “Livermore” 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. 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:

This competition/exhibition is open to all members of RSC.
 
1. The concept of this Virtual/Competition Exhibition may be explained as follows:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Electronic Exhibits must be forwarded to rhodesianstudycircle@outlook.com
Rules for the:

Please Contact Us for more information.

Competition Results 2023

 

Single Sheet Conference – Dave Trathen (UK) The mutilated and excised metal hand stamps of Rhodesia January – June 1979                        

Single Sheet Virtual – Mike Hughes (UK) (God Save the King, Edward VII )

Livermore Virtual – Mark Loomis (USA) (The Middle Period of WWII Civil Censorship in Southern Rhodesia)

Livermore Conference – Mark Ladd (UK) (Chinde Post Office  of Exchange and Postal Rates)

The Nodder/Hamilton Prize (for the best presentation at the Conference) – Tony Banks (UK)