Journal of the Rhodesian Study Circle – RSCJ 308 – September, 2025

Contents

  • Editorial
  • From the Chairman                                                                 
  • Membership News and Information                         
  • Members Correspondence                                                                       
  • Book Review                                                                                 
  • Matters Arising                                                                             
  • Members Ask       
  • Members Share       
  • Reports of RSC Meetings and Exhibitions:
  • Manchester Virtual (5/7/2025)       
  • North America Virtual (26/7/2025)       
  • South West England Virtual (24/7/2025)       
  • Manchester Virtual (2/8/2025)       
  • Great American Stamp Show – (14-17/2025)         
  • Melbourne (23/8/2025)       
  • Lusaka (27/8/2025)       
  • Harare (28/8/2025)       
  • The KGV Royal Cypher 2d Die II Overprinted for Use in Bechuanaland Protectorate – David Spivack (USA)   
  • Nyasaland 1946 1d Victory Perforation Variety – Tony Plumbe (UK)       
  • Penny Double Head on receipt – John Knight (UK)       
  • WWI Censorship of Rhodesia Mail – Mark Loomis (USA)       
  • An unusual cachet from Livingstone 1937 – Patrick Flanagan (South Africa)    
  • Missent to Chinde – Colin Fraser (USA)       
  • The Crown Jewels of the BSAC Admiral Issue – Colin Hoffman (UK) and Sean Burke (Australia)      
  • Marandellas Postal Service – Jono Waters (Zimbabwe)
  • E.E. Homan, Entrepreneur – Mashonaland in the days before the 1896 Uprising – Mike Hughes (UK)      
  • Chenjiri – two cancellations, not one – Rob Burrett (Zimbabwe)     
  • Mafeking to Bulawayo – March, 1900 – Patrick Flanagan (South Africa)    
  • Imperforates found in the ½d, 1d and 1½d stamps of the BSAC Admiral Issue – Patrick Flanagan (South Africa)      
  • James Alfred Cope-Christie. His personal reminiscences and buildings in Salisbury – Mike Barter (South Africa)      
  • Two Northern Rhodesia Skeleton postmarks – Myooye and Kanchele – Keith Harrop (UK)     
  • Nyasaland Air Week 1933: The Lone Flight – Brian Coop (UK)      
  • 1929 Railway Strike Airmail Covers – Ian Johnstone (UK)     
  • Do not forget to turn it over     
  • Favourite Picture Postcard Publishers     
  • Meister Covers – Colin Fraser (USA)     
  • The power of nature and African folklore – Keith Harrop (UK)     
  • Queen Elizabeth II – Southern Rhodesia – Jamie Smith (UK)      
  • The Methodist Old Umtali Mission – Rhodesia Mission Press – Mark Loomis (USA)     
  • The 2006 Bridges of Zimbabwe Issue – Narendhra Morar (UK)     
  • Some Baines correspondence from the Cape of Good Hope – Patrick Flanagan (South Africa)     
  • Seen on EBay     
  • 1892 Combination Covers – Peter Hickman (UK)     
  • Kalunguisi/Salisbury/Fort Jameson/Cape Town/ London/Naples cover – Patrick Flanagan (South Africa)