JOURNAL OF THE RHODESIAN STUDY CIRCLE: NO 305 March 2025

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)