What’s inside The Springbok – January 2025
The issue contains 32 pages of articles and reports on South African philately, postal history and postcards. It covers material ranging from the Cape to Union and RSA.
The main image shows a 1913 Deeds document relating to a farm in the
Hoopstad District of ORC bearing Transvaal and Natal interprovincial revenue stamps.
The current issue contains the following philatelic reports and articles:
Society News:
Auction Report. “The South African market isn’t quite as dead as I feared…” Tony H-G.
Letter to the Editor. Hugh Jefferies, SG Commonwealth Catalogue Editor.
SACS Finances for 2025. “Expenditure exceeds income…” Simon Peetoon.
Articles:
Revenues. Part 1. “A huge subject … where to start?” Tony Howgrave-Graham. Tony makes an excellent start of this daunting subject with Deeds documents.
Exploring SA Nature through Philately. Part 6. Migration. Roy Ross. (Roy has not been well recently. We wish him a speedy recovery and a return to motoring).
Union Cinderellas. Part 14. “a very scarce commercial label from the First World War”
Rob & Lyn Lester. This popular long-running series just gets better and better.
Postcards and Postmarks of Towns and Villages in the Cape 1880 – 1915, Part 14. Bob Hill. Wynberg and Worcester, (1842) and Willowmore (1859).
South African Post Offices. Part 12. Rob & Lyn Lester. Germiston, (carrying on from previous issue), Grahamstown (1812) and Harrismith (1850). Where our hobby began!
South West Corner. The intriguing Wanderstempel III.Tony Howgrave-Graham.
The Springbok Index 2024 Volume 72/1 – 72/4, No.s 365 – 368. Useful!
This issue contains an advertisement for EuroPhilEx in Hall 9 of Birmingam’s National Exhibition Centre, Wednesday 7th to Sunday 11th March 2025. Organised philately needs an over-arching event to bring philately together and give it sociaL cohesion and purpose. In the past, this was provided by Stampex London. EuroPhilEx now aims to pick up where Stampex left off by offering 2000 frames of exhibits and over 60 dealers If you want organised philately to survive, EuroPhilEx and local societies need your support!.
This issue of The Springbok shows that what we do as a society we enjoy collectively. Join SACS to read more. It’s the Home for your Hobby! Just £10 per year. Click here ….
