Journal Topics - September 2024
Topics in the September 2024 Issue
The September 2024 Journal (Issue 111) contains more interesting new articles for Cape, Zululand and CGH.
The article by Alex Visser and Roger Porter is part of a major compendium of work entitled Postmarks of Southern Africa. The authors believe that much more could be added to make the postmark collection more comprehensive and would like members of the Cape and Natal Study Circle to contribute additional information (e.g. earliest and latest dates of use) and hopefully to provide scans to fill in gaps where no image of a postmark in the compendium appears.
Victorian Natal Postage Stamp Varieties Used on Cover by Keith Klugman examines 11 major varieties, some of which have only emerged recently, and they range over a period from the earliest ‘primitive’ embossed stamps through to 1887.
The article Cape Colony – Combination Transvaal and Cape of Good Hope Covers presents a number of such covers which were sold in the 2019 Corinphila Besancon Auction and which should appeal to members who enjoy the diversity of postal items sent from one South African colony via another, in order to reach a sea-route to the outside world. Jack Penfold has contributed Further Notes on a Stamp Soaking Study by Dorn and Brown, with focus on the Cape 4d triangular, while I have looked at the Union-Castle Line and Three Covers with Hand-drawn Steamers.
Natal, courtesy of eBay, provides some curiosities in A Reproduction and Recent Bogus Stamps, A Registered Envelope from the Crown Hotel, Ladysmith, an establishment which survived the Boer War and the next 124 years and is still in use today, and an advertisement for Schenker’s Forwarding Agency on a Postcard to Adams and Co.
Zululand provides the strange story of the Unusual Tax on a Soldier’s Letter leading to a new Postage Stamp.