Journal of the Rhodesian Study Circle: Number 302 September 2024

Contents:

  • Editorial                                                                                     
  • Membership News and Information                                                   
  • Members Correspondence and News                                               
  • Members Profile: Geoff Brakspear                                       
  • Book Review                 
  • Matters Arising       
  • Members Ask   
  • Members Share   
  • Reports of Exhibitions and RSC Meetings:
  • Westpex (San Francisco 26-28/4/2024)
  • Manchester Virtual 20/4/2024)     
  • Pipex (Portland 3-6/5/2024)     
  • Manchester Virtual (15/6/2024)
  • London (22/6/2024) 
  • Melbourne (13/7/2024)
  • MARPEX – SA Nationals (8-13/7/2024)   
  • Review – The BESANÇON Collection – Bechuanaland 
  • 2024 RSC AGM & Conference (9-12/5/2024)     
  • Forging of Rhodesia’s “independence” overprinted Stamps – Geoff Brakspear (UK) and Dave Trathen (UK)
  • King George V 1924 -1937 – Postal History – Peter Hickman (UK)
  • Artwork depicting the head of Queen Elizabeth in various renditions  – Patrick Flanagan (South Africa)
  • Kenneth Kaunda – Centenary of his birth –
  • Allan Rendle (UK) and Adam Goulding (Australia)  
  • Out of the Brownie Box – Anita McCullough (UK) 
  • Nyasaland: The 1908 Definitive Issue – the low Values – Colin Fraser (USA)  
  • The Zimbabwe 1996 45cents additional value: its use and misuse – Ian Menzies (Switzerland)   
  • The history of the British South Africa Company – Ian Shapiro (UK) 
  • The Penny Double Head, Plate B, Position 87 – James Strutt (UK)
  • A 10/- BSAC Admiral, a cigar box and my father – Brian Zlotnick (UK)      
  • Alexander Hetherwick Letter – Stuart Ross (Malawi)       
  • From the Double Head Mythology – two tales of John Reed – Colin Hoffman (UK)  
  • An extraordinary David Livingstone original artefact – Ian Shapiro (UK)
  • BCA and BSAC BONCs on Cover – Tony Banks (UK) 
  • A brief journey through some Nyasaland collecting interests – Ian Macdonald (Vietnam) 
  • Special postmarks of the British Association visit to the Victoria Falls – Colin Hoffman (UK)
  • Victoria Falls 2d and 3d values re-issued in large Format – Keith Harrop (UK)
  • 1d Double Head – Plate B, Position 87, on Postcard – Bill O’Connell (Isle of Man)
  • In Quest of SG 196a – Stephen Reah-Johnson (USA)
  • Killing for Conservation The story of Wildlife and People in Zimbabwe – Part 2 – The Colonial Era – Narendhra Morar (UK)
  • Pre-Paid Reply Postal Stationery Cards of Mashonaland and Rhodesia – Andrew Wilkie (UK)
  • Southern Rhodesia King George V Field Marshal Stamps and Postal Stationery – David Spivack (USA), Colin Hoffman (UK), Patrick Flanagan (South Africa), and Brian Trotter (UK)
  • The British South Africa Company’s Citrus Estate 
  • 1936 Umtali Publicity items – Rob Burrett (Zimbabwe) 
  • Authenticating the 1940 BSAC Golden Jubilee GB17 Specimen Overprints – Dave Cooper (South Africa)
  • Store Bros., Salisbury – Sean Burke (Australia)
  • Sir Archibald Murray – Adrian de Bourbon (UK) 
  • The 2/- Light Blue and Black Double Head –  Colin Hoffman (UK), Derek Lambert (UK) and Sean Burke (Australia)
  • The Penny Double Head – the mystery of the end of row blotchy white patches in the right panel on Plates A and B and their disappearance – John Knight  (UK) 
  • Postcard Matters – Andrew Wilkie (UK)
  • Further interesting early mail from Rhodesia – Keith Harrop (UK)
  • Formation of Rhodes Inyanga National Park – Mike Hughes (UK)
  • Tamsen inspired covers – Terry Devine (Australia)   
  • The Beira & Mashonaland and Rhodesia Railways
  • The Double Head Committee of the RSC – Colin Hoffman (UK) and Sean Burke (Australia)
  • Two letters from Lobengula – King of the Matabele – Keith Harrop (UK)   Multiples, the 2/- Double Head and a cover – Patrick Flanagan (South Africa)
  • Some rare BSAC Admiral stamps making an appearance at the 2024 Conference – Colin Hoffman (UK)  
  • Selling your Stamp Collection – Simon Peetoom (UK)           
  • Rhodesian and Zimbabwean military formation and unit cachets: Part 8 – The Rhodesia Regiment –
  • The Bulawayo Based Battalions – Richard Berry (UK)   
  • Combination Period – 1892 BSAC & Bechuanaland Postal Charges – Tuli via Macloustie to Johannesburg – Patrick Flanagan (South Africa)     
  • 1954 Rhodesia & Nyasaland: Post Office Training School, the Colin Salmon Collection – Dave Cooper (South Africa)
  • RANA Cover from Salisbury to Blantyre to Lilongwe – Peter Wingent (UK)
  • Bradbury Wilkinson Hand Painted Essays – Patrick Flanagan (South Africa)
  • Additions and revisions to the Double Head listings in the Stanley Gibbons Catalogue – Colin Hoffman (UK), Stephen Reah Johnson (USA), Michael Deverell (UK), Andrew Wilson (UK) and Sean Burke (Australia)
  • A Revenue Document with a Tale  – Adrian de Bourbon (UK)  
  • Birds on Stamps of Malawi – 1988 Definitive Issue – Stuart Ross (Malawi)
  • Postmarks on the 4d Double Head – Ronnie Winchester (Australia)
  • Philatelic Covers, but who were the recipients or senders? – Colin Fraser (USA)