Category: Journal

Contents

• Editorial                                                                                             
• From the Chairman                                                                       
• Membership News and Information                         
• Remembering John Taylor                                                                       
• Members Correspondence                                                                       
• Auction Reviews – Patrick Flanagan (South Africa)                                      
• Matters Arising       
• Members Ask       
• Members Share       
• Reports of RSC Meetings and Exhibitions:
• South Africa Nationals (3-6/9/2025)       
• Manchester Virtual (6/9/2025)       
• London (11/8/2025)       
• Manchester Virtual (10/10/2025)       
• Manchester Virtual (1/11/2025)     
• North America Virtual (8/11/2025)       
• Rhodesian Political Postcards – Andrew Wilkie (UK) and James Gavin (Australia)
• Story of a post office worker in The Miltonian 1949 – Paul Hubbard (Zimbabwe)          
• Imperial Airways Temporary Services to the Rhodesias in 1937 – Adrian de Bourbon (UK)    
• The story behind the postcard – Jeremy Jackman (UK) 
• Major John Charles Jesser-Coope – his references by L.S. Jameson and H.C. Plumer: Documents with history – Mike Barter (South Africa)   
• Concise notes and a checklist of Zimbabwe post-independence postal services 1980-2025 – Ian Menzies (Switzerland), Narendhra Morar (UK) and Buster Schemper (Zimbabwe)
• Lomogundi to Germany 1901 – Patrick Flanagan (South Africa)        
• Some aspects of the Waterlow Archives – BSAC period – Colin Hoffman (UK)
• The Waterlow Archives Sample Stamps BSAC Rhodesia – Colin Hoffman (UK) & Derek Lambert (UK)
• Reply Coupons of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland – an area for study – Colin Fraser (USA)      
• Late use of Active Service Letter Card  – Adrian de Bourbon (UK)       
• Mining Postmarks of Rhodesia – Plato Mavros (Zimbabwe)       

 

 

Contents

• Editorial
• From the Chairman                                                                 
• Membership News and Information                         
• Members Correspondence                                                                       
• Book Review                                                                                 
• Matters Arising                                                                             
• Members Ask       
• Members Share       
• Reports of RSC Meetings and Exhibitions:
• Manchester Virtual (5/7/2025)       
• North America Virtual (26/7/2025)       
• South West England Virtual (24/7/2025)       
• Manchester Virtual (2/8/2025)       
• Great American Stamp Show – (14-17/2025)         
• Melbourne (23/8/2025)       
• Lusaka (27/8/2025)       
• Harare (28/8/2025)       
• The KGV Royal Cypher 2d Die II Overprinted for Use in Bechuanaland Protectorate – David Spivack (USA)   
• Nyasaland 1946 1d Victory Perforation Variety – Tony Plumbe (UK)       
• Penny Double Head on receipt – John Knight (UK)       
• WWI Censorship of Rhodesia Mail – Mark Loomis (USA)       
• An unusual cachet from Livingstone 1937 – Patrick Flanagan (South Africa)    
• Missent to Chinde – Colin Fraser (USA)       
• The Crown Jewels of the BSAC Admiral Issue – Colin Hoffman (UK) and Sean Burke (Australia)      
• Marandellas Postal Service – Jono Waters (Zimbabwe)
• E.E. Homan, Entrepreneur – Mashonaland in the days before the 1896 Uprising – Mike Hughes (UK)      
• Chenjiri – two cancellations, not one – Rob Burrett (Zimbabwe)     
• Mafeking to Bulawayo – March, 1900 – Patrick Flanagan (South Africa)    
• Imperforates found in the ½d, 1d and 1½d stamps of the BSAC Admiral Issue – Patrick Flanagan (South Africa)      
• James Alfred Cope-Christie. His personal reminiscences and buildings in Salisbury – Mike Barter (South Africa)      
• Two Northern Rhodesia Skeleton postmarks – Myooye and Kanchele – Keith Harrop (UK)     
• Nyasaland Air Week 1933: The Lone Flight – Brian Coop (UK)      
• 1929 Railway Strike Airmail Covers – Ian Johnstone (UK)     
• Do not forget to turn it over     
• Favourite Picture Postcard Publishers     
• Meister Covers – Colin Fraser (USA)     
• The power of nature and African folklore – Keith Harrop (UK)     
• Queen Elizabeth II – Southern Rhodesia – Jamie Smith (UK)      
• The Methodist Old Umtali Mission – Rhodesia Mission Press – Mark Loomis (USA)     
• The 2006 Bridges of Zimbabwe Issue – Narendhra Morar (UK)     
• Some Baines correspondence from the Cape of Good Hope – Patrick Flanagan (South Africa)     
• Seen on EBay     
• 1892 Combination Covers – Peter Hickman (UK)     
• Kalunguisi/Salisbury/Fort Jameson/Cape Town/ London/Naples cover – Patrick Flanagan (South Africa) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents:

• Editorial                                                                                     
• Membership News and Information                   
• Membership Correspondence, including tribute to Gordon Shepherd
• Auction Review – The David Spivack Collection of Queen Victoria Overprinted for use in Bechuanaland – Alan MacGregor (South Africa)       
• Auction Review – The Dr Arnold Brickman Collection of  Double Heads – Part 2 – Sean Burke (Australia)
• Matters Arising
• Members Ask 180
• Members Share 185
• Reports of RSC Meetings and Exhibitions

• North America (WESTPEX) (26/4/2025) 
• North America (PIPEX) (2-4/5/2025) 
• EuroPhilex (Birmingham) (7-11/5/2025) 
• SW England (27/4/2025) 
• Dublin (14/5/2025) 
• Manchester (3/6/2025) 
• Manchester (7/6/2025) 
• Lusaka, Zambia (25/6/25) 
• London (24/6/2025) 
• RSC AGM & Conference (22-25/5/2025) 
• 2025 RSC Competitions 
• National Heroes of Zimbabwe: Philately, Politics and ‘Patriotic History’ – Narendhra Morar (UK)
• Some aspects of the Revenue Stamps of British Central Africa and Nyasaland – Colin Fraser (USA)
• Railway Cancels to 1950 – Tony Banks (UK)
• The Swiss Bethlehem Fathers’ missions in Southern Rhodesia – Mark Loomis (USA)
• Salisbury to Harare: the Development of a City 1890 – Present – Geoff Brakspear (UK)
• Post Offices in Zambia in 2024 – Rob Burrett (Zimbabwe)
• The 1937 South Rhodesia Definitive Issue – Patrick Flanagan (South Africa)
• Early British Central Africa Settlers – Stuart Ross (Malawi)
• An Introduction to the Specimen Stamps of British Central Africa and Nyasaland – Colin Fraser (USA)
• 1905 Visit of The British Association for the Advancement of Science – Jeremy Jackman (UK)
• Suggested ‘Pioneer’ designs, submitted by Waterlow Bros. and Layton, for the 1910 issue – James Strutt (UK)
• Who was Edward Gardiner Alston? – Ian Cubbin (UK)
• Correspondence from and to Private Lewin H. Rivers  of the NFF – Mark Ladd (UK)  Combination BSA Co, and Bechuanaland Protectorate stamps 1892 , and more on Macloutsi Camp – Mike Barter (South Africa)
• Tati Concessions – James Strutt (UK)
• Captain L. F. de V. Stokes – Missing in Action? – Colin Fraser (USA)
• Cape of Good Hope Postal Stationery Cards
• overprinted “Mashonaland” – the Second Printing – Andrew Wilkie (UK)
• Philatelic research and understanding – the clues
• come in many forms – Sean Burke (Australia)
• Combination cover in the Spink Auction of the David Spivack Collection  of Queen Victoria Overprinted for use in the Bechuanalands 
• Black and white photographs used for the design of Southern Rhodesia 1953 Definitives – Chris Gregory (UK)
• The case of the imperforate sheet of the Rhodesia 9d Tobacco stamp – Eryl Worton (South Africa)  HG11 from Fort Nkala in 1902 – Peter Hickman (UK)
• An extraordinarily interesting Thomas Baines discovery – Patrick Flanagan (South Africa) Birds on Stamps in Zambian philately – niche or not? – Ian Menzies (Switzerland)
• Nyasaland: King George V Large Keyplates Revisited – Denis Littlewort (UK)
• Waterlows reflections
• Postcard Matters – Andrew Wilkie (UK) Peter Falk – Philatelic Cover – John Knight (UK) 

 

 

Contents

• Editorial
• Membership News and Information
• From the Chairman
• Membership Correspondence
• The Rhodesian Study Circle Memoir Series
• Matters Arising
• Members Ask
• Members Share
• Reports of RSC Meetings & Exhibitions
• Manchester Virtual (1/2/2025)
• South West England (30/1/2025)
• London (15/2/2025)
• Melbourne (8/3/2025)
• Manchester Virtual (1/3/2025)
• Lusaka (1/4/2025)
• Manchester Virtual (5/4/2025)
• Melbourne Virtual (9/4/2025)
• Townsend Vignette Postcards of British Bechuanaland – Keith Brodovcky (South Africa)
• Postcards from the Native Commissioner’s Wife – Anita McCullough (UK)
• Why did Flora Moodie buy Stand No. 44 Melsetter? – Mike Hughes (UK)
• Troubles on the Gazaland frontier 1893-98 – Ian Menzies (Switzerland)
• A cover to Canada – Paul Waldron (UK)
• 1937-1950 Southern Rhodesia: Some questions after examining the Waterlow Commemorative Issues – Dave Cooper (South Africa)
• Early Mailing of a Church Newsletter – Mark Ladd (UK)
• Christmas Mail from Northern Rhodesia Regiment in Madagascar in 1943 – Ronnie Winchester (Australia)
• Mozambique Company Airmail via Rhodesia, 1932-1937 – David Bradley (Australia)
• A Double Head Collection – Shaun Rosen (Australia)
• Killing for Conservation – Part 4 – Wildlife since Independence – Narendhra Morar (UK)
• 1946 Southern Rhodesia ‘Emergency’ Aerogramme – Adrian de Bourbon (UK)
• Postmarks used at Wankie(s) – Tony Banks (UK)
• A Double Head Exhibit – Pat Flanagan (South Africa) 154

 

Contents

• Editorial                                                                                           
• 2025 RSC Conference                                                                         
• Membership News and Information                           
• Membership Correspondence                                                                         
• Matters Arising                                                                               
• Members Ask                                                                               
• Members Share       
• Reports of RSC Meetings & Exhibitions
• Manchester Virtual (7/12/2024)       
• Manchester Virtual (4/1/2025)       
• North America Virtual (17/1/2025)       
• Barred Diamonds used on BSAC and Barred Circles used on BCA – Tony Banks (UK)        
• HG 11a revisited – Colin Hoffman (UK) and Sean Burke (Australia)       
• Some observations on a postcard collection
• From the BSAC period – Sean Burke (Australia)       
• First Flight Covers of Zimbabwe 1980-2000 – Narendhra Morar (UK)       
• Identifying the many print runs of the Zimbabwe 4th Definitive Issue 1995-99 – Ian Menzies (Switzerland)     
• A Post Office Savings Bank Book – Peter Hickman (UK) 
• Postcard Matters – Andrew Wilkie (UK)       
• Polish Missionary Cards from Northern Rhodesia – Walter Herdzik  (Canada) 
• A Paris Missionary Society related card lost but not unappreciated – Sean Burke (Australia)        
• Handling the Mails at Broken Hill – Early February, 1932 – Adrian de Bourbon (UK)       
• A Slogan Postmark from Malaŵi – ‘Prepare Your Gardens Early’ – David M. Frye (USA)       
• The Light Blue 2/- Double Head – some unanswered questions – Colin Hoffman (UK)       
• Constant Plate Flaws in the 1943 Southern Rhodesia 50th Anniversary of the Occupation of Matabeleland Issue – Mark Loomis (USA)        
• Revenue Use of 3/- King George V Field Marshal –
• Salisbury Municipality Sewerage Loans 1934 – David Spivack (USA)     
• British Central Africa – Certificate of Claims – Stuart Ross (Malawi)     
• Recently acquired mining documents – Christopher Cooksey (UK)      
• The earliest recorded philatelic/registered mail from pre Colonial Gubulawayo? – Ian Johnstone (UK)       
• Postcards from the Morgenster Mission at Fort Victoria – Keith Brodovcky (South Africa)