Milanji: An Unknown Post Office in British Central Africa
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008: Africa, British Central Africa, Date Stamps, Nyasaland, Post Offices, RhodesiaRichard A. Turton This article by CD Twynam, was originally published in GSM (October 1956). African articles are extremely popular and we are pleased to republish this obscure piece. One of the earliest districts to be developed in British Central Africa, starting ...
Nyasaland Protectorate: A report on the Postal Services (1909-1910)
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008: Africa, Nyasaland, Rhodesia, South AfricaWilliam Cochrane Here is a useful report on the Postal Services of Nyasaland in 1909-1910. Rhodesian and South African collectors/postal historians should find this interesting. On the first of January 1910, a direct exchange of mails was inaugurated between Chinde and Salisbury, ...
South Africa to England Ocean Mail Services (1876-34)
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008: Africa, Australia & Dependencies, India, Postal Services, Rhodesia, Shipping Lines, South AfricaWilliam Cochrane. This information has been extracted from the Official Year Book of the Union of South Africa and of Basutoland, Bechuanaland Protectorate, and Swaziland (1933-4).
Rhodesia’s Future (1909)
Thursday, May 1st, 2008: Africa, Rhodesia, South AfricaThe following article was first published in the Daily Mail July 5th 1909 and should be of interested to collectors of Rhodesia and South Africa: General Botha, the Transvaal Prime Minister, now on his way to England, is expected to open ...
Rhodesia: A Tale of Two Postcards
Friday, February 22nd, 2008: "Philately from Australia", Africa, Articles, Philatelic Publications, Postal History, Postcards, RhodesiaSean Burke. At a meeting of the RPSV in April, Paul Peggie gave a talk and displayed over 60 items of early Northern Rhodesian missionary mail. The following two cards were part of that display:
A Trek into Rhodesia
Saturday, February 9th, 2008: Africa, RhodesiaSean Burke. In thinking about writing something for Philately from Australia about my interest in Rhodesian stamps, I began to draw some analogy to a recent essay I have just prepared on Samuel Johnson’s A Journey to the Western Islands of ...
Rhodesian Study Circle
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007: Africa, Clubs & Societies, Links, Rhodesia, South AfricaThe Rhodesian Study Circle was formed in 1948 following advertisements in the philatelic press in England and South Africa by Wilfrid Nodder, inviting "collectors of the stamps of Southern and Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland" to join in forming a study ...
