Crossing Over. Blurring the lines between postal and fiscal use (by Ian Paterson)
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1905 visit to Southern Africa by The British Association for the Advancement of Science
Chris Cordes has provided this cover The visit by the British Association for the Advancement of Science included a period in Johannesburg between 28th August and 1st September 1905. Postal facilities were set…
Schoemansrust post office: earliest recorded cancel?
Here is a cover from Johan Bezuidenhout. Schoemansrust post office is being recorded in Put as open from 1890-1898. While Put did not record a postmark, there is one in Alex Vissers’ addendum…
A Guide to Correct Identification of the 6d Arms stamps of the First Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek, by Lars Jørgensen RDPSA
This article first appeared as three parts in Gibbons Stamp Monthly, January 2020 (pages 46-49), February (pages 76-79) and March (pages 50-53). A few typographic errors have been corrected by the Editor (Transvaal…
Revenue stamps and telegraphic use
Throughout the history of the two Republics and their occupations, postage stamps have been used for revenue purposes. However, a large number of specific revenue stamps and marks are known. Revenue marks are…
Louis Botha and John X Merriman
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…
Exceptional railway overprints
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…
Fiscal stamps
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…
Halfpenny postcards
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…
New postage stamps with Edward VII
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…