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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) 

 

 

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