I finally got around to the printing press at Ditsong. Here are two images: one from the museum (bad lighting, sorry) and one from Jonkers and Groenewald. The two show remarkable similarities. Judging…
Recently a Transvaal 1 Shilling with the ‘all capitals’ overprint ‘V. R. / TRANSVAAL.’ was offered on eBay with bidding starting at 99p. The stamp caught my interest for the following reasons, apart…
In my small collection of Stellaland revenue stamps I have two 6d revenues cancelled with the signature of CG Dennison. The signature is not illustrated in the Trotter and Midwood book17. Charles George…
The book was published 12th October 2021 by the author, in Gravesend, Kent, UK, ISBN none, 128pp with five maps, seventeen tables and circa sixty illustrations in full colour, written in English, A4…
The 2021 Philatelic Federation of South Africa national exhibition was held from 21-23 October 2021 at Kopano Nokeng in Bloemfontein. It was hosted by the Orange Free State Philatelic Society in their 120th…
During an idle morning I walked through the Ditsong Cultural museum in Pretoria. Imagine my surprise when I saw the printing plate of the Machadodorp postcard hiding in plain sight. The print is…
An interesting parcel post item used from Pretoria counter 2 with 4-digit date 14 DEC 1901 to London. The form used is a British & Foreign Parcel Post Customs Declaration one. There appears…
Here is an item that may be of interest to readers of the Transvaal Philatelist. The Machadodorp postcard is well known to us all and it has been described repeatedly over the years….
This post is a little off-topic; one of the stamps is a Colonial era 3d Transvaal postage due but the other is a 6d Union postage due. Both have been used in 1916…
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