Category: Southern Africa Philately

Southern Africa Philately No.11

Contents
  • Philatelic Forum 1920 Van Ryneveld Flight – The Bechuanaland Connection
  • Philatelic Forum Aerogramme – Swaziland 1955 Overprint H&G 16
  • Philatelic Forum Cape of Good Hope Un-catalogued Overprint Error
  • Philatelic Forum 1947 1d Royal Visit with Overprint Omitted (SWA)
  • Philatelic Forum Union Machine Cancels – Unusual Date-settings for April
  • Philatelic Forum A 1940 Cape Town Machine Slogan that Never Was
  • Philatelic Forum Basutoland 1st Official Air Mail Service
  • Philatelic Forum Tristan – Farewell to ‘The Lonely Isle’
  • Philatelic Forum July 1916 Union £1 King’s head
  • Philatelic Forum 1947 UPU Convention – Airmail Notes by I.H.C. Godfrey
  • Philatelic Forum S.A. Revenues – Watch Your Language – Update
  • Rhodesia Nkala – North Western Rhodesia
  • South Africa The 1927 10/- Aniline blue & brown SG 39
  • Airmails Air Mail Labels – In British Booklets
  • Birds on Stamps – Penguins on Southern Africa Stamps
  • Rhodesia – Victoria Falls Railway & Souvenir Letter Cards
  • Tristan Da Cunha – Two Different Shaped Cancels
  • Pioneer Philately – 1920 The Union Philatelist
  • COGH & Natal Labels – Cape Colony & Natal Labels
  • Indian Ocean – The Cocos Keeling Islands – Part II
  • Airmails – 1925 Experimental Air Service – Postmarks
  • Union Official Variety – Union 1/- Official with Transposed Overprints
  • Basutoland – Basutoland the 1961 Decimal Overprints
  • New Book – Southern Rhodesia King George V Philately – A Projected Publication

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Southern Africa Philately No.10

Contents
  • Philatelic Forum Stellaland – 1884 Imperforate Varieties Revisited
  • Philatelic Forum Goshen – ‘Local Labels’ or Bogus Manufacture?
  • Philatelic Forum 1916 A Proposed Union Philatelic Society
  • Philatelic Forum Circa 1901 – 02 Paul Kruger gets a ‘Verbal Bashing’
  • Philatelic Forum Ninety Years Mail in One Delivery
  • Philatelic Forum 1925 ¼d Newspaper Rate – No ¼d Stamps
  • Philatelic Forum 1925 Royal Tour – Stamps for the Prince
  • Birds on Stamps Extinct Birds on Southern African Stamps
  • Rhodesia 1896 Drought, Locusts, Rinderpest plus Rebellions
  • South Africa South African Diamonds
  • Boer War – Principal Events during the Boer War
  • Cape of Good Hope – Mount Currie Local Post
  • Bechuanaland – Bechuanaland Annual Reports 1896 – 97
  • Union of SA Airmails – Development of the African Airway
  • First Day/Early Use – Southern Africa Stamps First Days 1896 – 1927
  • SAA – A Government Acquisition & Change of Attitude
  • Indian Ocean – The Cocos Keeling Islands – Part I
  • Railway Tour & TPO – The 1925 Royal Tour of Southern Africa
  • Tristan da Cunha – From HMS Job 9 to HMS Atlantic Isle
  • Tristan Da Cunha – Tristan Defence Volunteers Document

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Southern Africa Philately No.9

Contents
  • Philatelic Forum Editorial ‘Bloomers’ – A ‘Philatelic Forum’ on the Internet
  • Philatelic Forum Submarine K XVIII – KLM’s first Trans-Atlantic Flight
  • Philatelic Forum Watermark ‘Blues’ on the Cape Triangle
  • Philatelic Forum TDCU 1ZZ Call-sign or Postcode?
  • Philatelic Forum Rhod & Nyasa 1961 Postage Dues 1d Imperforate between on cover
  • Philatelic Forum Basutoland – Symbolic Crocodile
  • Tristan Da Cunha No Stamps, No Money – Only Potatoes on Tristan
  • Union of SA 1952 International Tercentenary Exhibition – Cape Town
  • South Africa WWII Labels, Cape, Malay and Indian Corps
  • SWA – Early Fledgling Stamp Exhibitions in South West Africa
  • S. African Homelands – Designers/Artists of Transkei Stamps
  • Cape of Good Hope – The Intriguing Cape Triangular Stamps
  • Rhodesia & Nyasaland – The Handstamped Postage Dues
  • South Africa – 1925 Experimental Flights Cape Town to Durban and back
  • Indian Ocean – Christmas Island Indian Ocean
  • Indian Ocean – Christmas Island to Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  • Birds on Stamps – The Ostrich on Southern African Stamps
  • BSAC – Frank Melland – Government Official in Northern Rhodesia
  • Philately – A Chronological Appreciation of Southern African Philately
  • Philately – Promoting Southern Africa Philately
  • Philately – Observations on Southern Africa Philatelic Journals
  • Tristan Da Cunha – 1943 The Tristan Times

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Southern Africa Philately No.8

Contents
  • Philatelic Forum 1927 ½d Springbok with a partial Double Impression
  • Philatelic Forum Interesting snippets in The Stamp Collectors’ Fortnightly
  • Philatelic Forum 1946 An Unscheduled Visitor to Tristan da Cunha
  • Philatelic Forum When were the ORC Overprints Demonetised (Update)
  • Philatelic Forum The Fabulous Pelham Collection
  • Philatelic Forum RSA Major Varieties (Update)
  • Philatelic Forum Stanley Gibbons – A Romantic Tale Develops
  • Philatelic Forum The First Man to Post Himself
  • Philatelic Forum South West Africa – 1973 ‘April Fool’
  • Philatelic Forum Privately Produced Airmail Label
  • South Africa The last Printings of the 2d Union Buildings
  • South Africa ‘Rare’ Union Officials – A Legacy of Hinko Suklje
  • Transvaal – Mozambique The Transvaal and Delgoa Bay
  • Airmails 1937 By Air – Brisbane to Cape Town – a Remarkable Lady
  • Southern Rhodesia 1938 – 1952 King George VI Booklets
  • Bechuanaland Cape Colony Confusion Regarding the Bechuanalands
  • South Africa WWII Maritime Labels
  • South West Africa 1967 The HALALI Hunting Horn Cancellation
  • South Africa Table Mountain as seen on Stamps
  • Railways South African ‘Rail’ versus ‘Station’
  • Northern Rhodesia Confusion at Mkushi
  • Pioneering Philately The South African Stamp Collector (1916 – 17)
  • Maritime Irvin and Johnson Connection with Kreguelen
  • Postal Orders The Evolution of South Africa Overprints on G.B. Postal Orders
  • Republic of South Africa RSA Philatelic Foundation Souvenir Sheets
  • South Africa South Africa King’s Heads – Inverted Watermarks
  • Tristan Da Cunha ‘Boetie’ Davidson and Tristan da Cunha
  • SWA Essays for the 1984 Centenary of German Colonisation (Back cover)

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Southern Africa Philately No.7

Contents
  • Philatelic Forum Poole’s Monthly Philatelist (1902) – Army Post Offices
  • Philatelic Forum A Philatelic Curiosity (St Helena)
  • Philatelic Forum When were ORC Overprints Demonetised?
  • Philatelic Forum Basutoland Officials – Another ‘Update’
  • Philatelic Forum The Rex Priced Catalogue of the Postage Stamps of KGVI
  • Philatelic Forum Cape of Good Hope Triangular Bisects
  • Orange Free State Smithfield (OFS) – A Novel Way of Posting Newspapers
  • Bechuanaland/Rhodesia – The Route North – 1890’s Cape Town to Bulawayo
  • Tristan da Cunha– Robert Foran’s Visit to Tristan – Fact or Fiction?
  • South Africa WWI – S.A. Gifts and Comforts Organisation
  • South West Africa – Remote Postal Agencies – Klipdam and Impalila
  • South Africa Post WWII – 1947 Navy Week and Springbok Village in Surrey
  • Maritime – Marion Island – Weather Station and Post Office
  • Southern Rhodesia – South Africa’s Proposed Rhodesian Stamp Issue
  • Zululand – The Bambatha Rebellion and Dinizulu
  • South Africa – Gifts and Comforts Charities during WWII
  • Pioneering SA Philately – Early South African Philatelic Journals
  • Airmails – Early and Experimental Commercial Aviation in South Africa
  • Transvaal – The Vurtheim Imperforates
  • South Africa Revenues – Watch your language
  • Southern Rhodesia – 1928 – 1933 King George V Booklets
  • Tristan da Cunha – A Visit by a Submarine
  • Republic of South Africa – Commemoratives – The Fourth Decade 1991 – 2000
  • South African Airmails – Gems from the 1925 Air Mail Issue (Back cover)

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Southern Africa Philately No.6

Contents
  • Philatelic Forum 1) British Empire Exhibition Labels
  • Philatelic Forum 2) 1927 ½d Springbok with a partial Double Impression
  • Philatelic Forum 3) An Obscure First Flight from Kroonstad to Germiston
  • Philatelic Forum 4) The First Man who Posted Himself
  • Philatelic Forum 5) An Unappealing Place Name like ‘Slurry’
  • Philatelic Forum 6) The Inconsistency of the Stamp Collector
  • Philatelic Forum 7) An Insight in the Ferrari Sales during the 1920’s
  • South Africa WWII – 1941 SA Red Cross Special War Appeal By Otto Peetoom
  • Rhodesia – Early Days at the Victoria Falls By Otto Peetoom (5 pages)
  • Antarctic/Tristan The Last ‘Heroic’ Antarctic Expedition on the Quest (5 pages)
  • Boer War – The Boer Invasion of Natal By Richard Stock (2 pages)
  • Aerogrammes – Aerogrammes and Southern African Rarities (4 pages)
  • South Africa WWII – SA Labels & Street Flags Part I – Red Cross (4 pages)
  • SA & SWA Revenues – Penalty Stamps of South Africa By Brian Trotter (2 pages)
  • Southern Rhodesia P.O. – Balla Balla in the Umzingwani District (2 pages)
  • Pioneering SA Philately – Early South African Journals – Continued (2 pages)
  • Bechuanaland/Boer War – 1899 – 1900 The Boer War in Bechuanaland – Part II
  • The Siege of Mafeking and its Relief By Otto Peetoom (6 pages)
  • Republic of South Africa – 1979 4c Christmas Fund Missing Gold Variety
  • Southern Rhodesia – A Page From the Thomas Matthews Collection (Back cover)

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Southern Africa Philately No.5

Contents
  • Philatelic Forum 1) Bouvet Island
  • Philatelic Forum 2) Pioneering South African Philately
  • Philatelic Forum 3) British Empire Exhibition Labels
  • Philatelic Forum 4) The First Union Stamp Exhibition – Durban 1913
  • Philatelic Forum 5) Southern Rhodesia 1953 Definitive Issue
  • Philatelic Forum 6) Early South African Philatelic Societies – Kimberley
  • Philatelic Forum 7) RSA Major Commemorative Varieties by Otto Peetoom
  • Philatelic Forum 8) Send Yourself by ‘Parcel Post’
  • Philatelic Forum 9) 1916 SWA – ‘Merely a Suggestion’
  • Philatelic Forum 10) 1925 The Northern Rhodesia Interim Period (An update)
  • Philatelic Forum 11) Rhodesia used ‘Abroad’ during the Interim period
  • Philatelic Forum 12) Natal ‘DN RAIL’ – An Unusual cancellation
  • Philatelic Forum 13) South West Africa – An ‘OFFICIAL’ Rarity
  • Philatelic Forum 14) South Africa – The Miners’ Phthisis Board
  • Philatelic Forum 15) Mr Stanley Gibbons – Recollections of Forty Years
  • Basutoland – Basutoland Officials – Used Sets – An Update
  • Rhodesia – Rhodesia and Nyasaland Postage Dues 1929 – 1954
  • Maritime – The ‘SHIPPING POSTMASTER’ Cancellations of S. Africa By J. Frank
  • Boer War – A ‘Second Siege of Ladysmith By Otto Peetoom
  • SWA – Bruno Büchner and the First G.S.W.A. 1914 Airmails By Otto Peetoom
  • South Africa – Major Union Varieties and Two ½d Double Prints By Otto Peetoom
  • Cape of Good Hope – Cape Colony Re-addressed Mail By Brian Trotter
  • Southern Rhodesia – Arcturus in the Province Mashonaland East By Bill O’Connell
  • Book Review – Southern African Mails By Brian Trotter
  • WWI & WWII Labels – Africa British Navy League Labels By Otto Peetoom
  • 1899 – 1900 The Boer War in Bechuanaland – Part I By Otto Peetoom
  • Bechuanaland – A Letter from the Warren Expedition to Sudan By Richard Stock
  • Boer War – 1900 Schweizer Renecke – Besieged By Otto Peetoom
  • South Africa – 1910 Cape Town Pageant – Brochures and a Rare Envelope

Southern Africa Philately No.4

Southern Africa Philately

Contents
  • Philatelic Forum 1) Basutoland – KGVI 6d Definitive Imperforate to Margin
  • Philatelic Forum 2) Stamps, stamps and more stamps
  • Philatelic Forum 3) SWA Road and Railway Letter Post
  • Philatelic Forum 4) The 1914-15 German South West Africa Campaign
  • Philatelic Forum 5) Armoured Trains and Looted Mail
  • Philatelic Forum 6) Early South African Philatelic Societies
  • Philatelic Forum 7) Number of Stamps on a Commercial Envelope
  • Philatelic Forum 8) South Africa’s 1d Ship Definitive
  • Philatelic Forum 9) British Bechuanaland
  • Philatelic Forum 10) South African WWI Labels
  • Philatelic Forum 11) SACS Leamington Spa Philatelic Weekend
  • Philatelic Forum 12) Overprinted British Postal Orders in Southern Africa
  • South Africa – The Miners’ Phthisis Board By Simon Peetoom
  • Maritime – Antarctic Bouvet Island – A Philatelic Connection By Otto Peetoom
  • British Bechuanaland – The Warren Expedition By Brian Trotter
  • Swaziland – Cape Union Steam Ship Mail to Swaziland
  • Southern Rhodesia 1929 6d Horizontal strip of three with blind Perforations between
  • RSA Commemoratives – Major Commemorative Varieties By O. Peetoom
  • Early Philately – Pioneering South African Philately
  • Northern Rhodesia 1924 – 1925 The Northern Rhodesia Interim Period
  • Southern Rhodesia 1923 – 1924 The Southern Rhodesia Interim Period
  • South Africa 1924 – 25 The British Empire Exhibition
  • Southern Rhodesia Antelope Mine – A history of its Post Office – By Bill O’Connell
  • Southern Rhodesia 1953 Definitives By Keith Harrop
  • Natal – 1911 The Natal Railway System
  • World War I – A Suspected invasion of Southern Rhodesia by Boer Forces
  • Basutoland – Used Basutoland Officials
  • Stamp Exhibition –The First Union Stamp Exhibition – Durban 1913
  • Northern Rhodesia 1963 QEII Definitives and a very rare contemporary Postal Notice

Southern Africa Philately No.3

Southern Africa Philately

Issue No.3

Contents
  • Philatelic Forum 1) The Design of the Stamps of the Orange Free State
  • Philatelic Forum 2) Too Many ‘Spectators’ – Nothing new
  • Philatelic Forum 3) 1939 An Unusual treat for Tristan Da Cunha
  • Philatelic Forum 4) What is a Postal Stationery Postcard?
  • Philatelic Forum 5) Southern Rhodesia 1924 – 1931 Admiral Definitives
  • Philatelic Forum 6) The Fate of the Zululand Remainder Stock
  • Philatelic Forum 7) An Unusual Airmail Label
  • Philatelic Forum 8) Basutoland – Symbolic Crocodile
  • Philatelic Forum 9) The Earliest Pre-Union Stamp Exhibitions
  • Stellaland – Imperforate Varieties on the 1884 Issue – By Otto Peetoom
  • South West Africa 1977 – 81 Rail Letter Post – By Simon Peetoom
  • Early Southern Rhodesia Aviation – By Otto Peetoom
  • Overprinted British Postal Orders in Southern Africa – By John Gledhill
  • The Rand Tram – A Ticket to Ride – By Alan Drysdall and Fernando Torres
  • SWA – The 1914-15 German South West Africa Campaign – By Paul van Zeyl
  • A Brief History of Avondale in the District of Salisbury – By Bill O’Connell
  • RSA Commemoratives Part I – The First 30 Years (1961 – 1990) – By Otto Peetoom
  • Transvaal 1858 Letter from Lydenburg – By Brian Trotter
  • Swaziland & Basutoland – 1933 – 34 The Rise and Fall of their Officials By Otto Peetoom
  • Northern Rhodesia – Redirected Mail – By Otto Peetoom
  • South West Africa Hand Painted Essays – By Otto Peetoom
  • South West Africa – An Issue is Born – By Otto Peetoom
  • Philatelic Amusement – Stamps, stamps and more stamps – How it all began
  • South West Africa – 1984 Traditional Head-dresses 40c Rejected hand-painted Essay

Southern Africa Philately No.2

Southern Africa Philately

Issue No.2

Contents
  • Philatelic Forum 1) Basutoland and the Symbol of the Crocodile
  • Philatelic Forum 2) South Africa 1935 Silver Jubilee publicity
  • Philatelic Forum 3) Round the British Empire in the Nineties – Zululand
  • Philatelic Forum 4) South African Air Mail Propaganda
  • Philatelic Forum 5) An Unusual Airmail Label
  • Forum 6) Nyasaland 1935 Silver Jubilee – No’s Printed, distributed, sold and destroyed
  • Philatelic Forum 7) CGH 1878 Postal Stationery card H&G 1
  • Bechuanaland – A letter from Barotseland forwarded via the Protectorate
  • Northern Rhodesia – A Motor boat Expedition by Derek Lambert
  • WWI – Lake Tanganyika and G.E.A. by Derek Lambert
  • Natal – Natal Government Railways – O.H.M.S. Envelopes by Otto Peetoom
  • Antarctic Expeditions and its Posts by Otto Peetoom
  • Boer War – Armoured Trains and Looted Mail by Richard Stock
  • South West Africa – SWA Road and Railway Letter Post by Otto Peetoom
  • Republic of South Africa – The 1977 Protea Definitives by Gary Brown
  • South Africa – World War I Labels by Otto Peetoom
  • South Africa – The 1914 South African Rebellion by Paul van Zeyl
  • OFS – A Tale of the OFS 1900 VRI 3d on 4d Overprint
  • British Postal Orders Overprinted Cape Colony and Transvaal by John Gledhill
  • Southern Rhodesia – Press Publicity for the 1935 Silver Jubilee by Otto Peetoom
  • Transvaal – A Challenge by Lars Jørgensen
  • Transvaal – KEVII 2/6 Revenue with Inverted Centre by Otto Peetoom
  • Transvaal – 1887 Delivering the Post in Johannesburg
  • Bechuanaland – The KEVII 6d Transvaal overprinted Bechuanaland Protectorate
  • British Pioneers of South African Philately by Otto Peetoom
  • Promoting Southern Africa Philately – Listing of participating organizations
  • Stamp Exhibitions – The Earliest Pre-Union Stamp Exhibitions by Otto Peetoom
  • South Africa – World War I Street Flags by Otto Peetoom
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