JOURNAL OF THE RHODESIAN STUDY CIRCLE: NO 300 March 2024

Contents

• Editorial                                                                                     
• The Chairman’s View                                                                     
• Our 300th Journal                                                                     
• Membership News and Information                       
• 2024 RSC Conference                                                                     
• Members News and Correspondence                             
• Matters Arising         
• Members Ask   
• Members Share   
• Reports of Meetings and Exhibitions:
• London (28/10/2023)   
• South West England (22/10/2023)   
• South Africa Nationals (13-15/10/2023)   
• Australia Nationals (2-5/11/2023)   
• Cape Town (25/11/2023)   
• North America Virtual (16/12/2023)   
• Manchester Virtual (21/10/2023)   
• Manchester Virtual (18/11/2023)   
• Manchester Virtual (9/12/2023)   
• Manchester Virtual (10/1/2024)   
• Chris Moffatt Collection – Tony Plumbe   
• The Great Britain ½d Jubilee Used in British
• Bechuanaland and Bechuanaland Protectorate 1887-1902—Part 1 –  David Spivack   
• The Mystery of South Helvetia, Chibuzana and Ethel Tawse Jollie– Ian Johnstone    
• The Southern Rhodesia WWII Opening Period Censor Handstamps – Keith Harrop & Mark Loomis   
• Postcard Matters – Andrew Wilkie    
• Rhodesia & Nyasaland 1959 Fairbridge 2½d Missing colour and subsequent overprinting – Dave Cooper
• More background on the life and times of Frank Ayer (1886 – 1976) – Ian Menzies   
• Thornhill and Guinea Fowl RAF Training camps in Southern Rhodesia in WWII – Sean Cunningham  
• £10 General dealers licence with a colourless embossed revenue 1921 and a bit more! – Mike Barter
• Unissued 1963 Federation Proofs – Patrick Flanagan   
• Charles George Glass – Revenue documents with history 1895 – Mike Barter
• 1905 Victoria Falls Publicity Brochure – Jeremy Jackman    
• Nyasaland postal bits – Rob Burrett   
• 1910 Waterlow Photographic Proofs of three unissued designs – Patrick Flanagan   
• Methodist Missionary Mail – Andrew Wilkie   
• Interstate Rhodesian Official Free Mail and the African Postal Union – Hugh Amoore   
• Charles Wordsworth Tyler. A Pioneer of Rhodesia – Henk De Lange    
• Two interesting Nyasaland covers – Peter Hickman    
• Reply Coupons – Keith Brodovcky    
• Nyasaland: The 1935 Silver Jubilee
• Commemorative Issue – Pamela and Colin Fraser   
• Early days in “The Selukwe” – Rob Burrett
• Some obvious ‘give-away’ flaws on the Penny Double Head – John Knight, Mark Thomas & Sean Burke
• Killing for Conservation – The story of Wildlife and
• People in Zimbabwe – Narendhra Morar   
• An unreported Ellis Allen Letter Card – “Bulawayo” Charles Lloyd  
• A 1928 Registered Envelope from Livingstone – Peter Coetzee  
• Additional Notations on Mining Certificates of Registration – Christopher Cooksey 
• The Waddling Covers – Tony Banks   
• Early Mail to and from Central Africa – Ian Cubbin   
• Southern Rhodesia – King George V Admiral Stamps – David Spivack, Colin Hoffman, Patrick Flanagan and Brian Trotter
• From the African Lakes Corporation Photo Archives –  Fort Rosebery – Stuart Ross   
• More on the Waterlows plate marking – Colin Hoffman