>> Stop Press: Closing date to enter for the Cape Town International Stamp Exhibition 2022 is extended to 30 June 2022. 23 May 2022Transvaal Study CircleUNITED KINGDOM Dear President and Member, CAPE TOWN…
Philately in most of its forms has suffered nearly a year of the effects of the pandemic, but the Transvaal Study Circle has also been affected by changes in the composition of the…
Following the protracted war between the two republics and the British Empire, first military then civil administration of the postal system in Transvaal colony was modelled on British practice in which English took…
Exceptionally the railways unified as C.S.A.R. (Central South African Railways) chose not to use franking privileges, overprinted lower values of postage stamps with these initials. Evidence of their forgery for collectors, even by…
The need to continue paying fees to government had required existing stocks of fiscal stamps of the Second Republic to be overprinted V.R.I. Later Cape Colony fiscal stamps were also introduced and overprinted…
De La Rue were asked to prepare several kinds of Edwardian postal stationer impressed with indicia often similar to those prepared for other British Colonies. They included single and double postcards for internal…
As an economy measure the Transvaal Treasury decided to print its own halfpenny postal stationery postcards, much in demand for both business and social communication. The Government Printer in Pretoria was able to…
Twelve values up to 10s. of bi-coloured postage stamps of the King’s profile in shades of grey to brown and a distinctive frame were printed at the behest of the Crown Agents by…
Intro text to go here… From September 1899, the British Army set up a field post office in the knowledge of the impending war. British Army Post Offices catered for soldiers’ mail using…
Mail service between the Republics and the two British colonies governed by conventions between them and by their membership of the Universal Postal Union almost ceased from mid October 1899. Internal post within…