Journal of the Rhodesian Study Circle – RSCJ 307 – July, 2025

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)
