What’s inside The Springbok – July 2024
This issue has something in it for every collector. It begins by catching up on social philately – what we did at our most recent meeting and how much we enjoyed sharing our displays with each other. The magazine has good articles on philately (stamp collecting), postal history, (the mail), deltiology (postcards) and finally Cinderellas (labels which can loosely be described as social postal history). All good stuff, much of it fresh and uncommon, all wonderfully collectable and philatelically entertaining.
The current issue contains the following philatelic reports and articles:
Society News:
Report on SACS Letchworth meeting, 13th April 2024. Bob Hill.
Report on SACS Kenilworth meeting, 30th June – 1st July 2024. Chris Oliver.
Letters to the Editor. Greg Jordan and Steve Hannath.
Record of SACS AGM, 30th June 2024. Chris Oliver
Articles:
The 1930 ½d Coil Stamps. Tony Howgrave-Graham.
1975 Tourism stamps with missing printing. Roy Ross.
Union Cinderellas – Part 12. Rob & Lyn Lester.
An unusual paper join. Roy Ross.
Follow up to Van Riebeeck article of October 2021. Tony Howgrave-Graham.
Explore South African Nature through Philately. Parts 2 & 3. Roy Ross.
South African Post Offices – Part 10 Rob & Lyn Lester.
Postcards & Postmarks of Cape of Good Hope (1880-1915) – Part 11. Bob Hill.
SWA Corner. Tony Howgrave-Graham.
This issue includes two reviews of recent SACS meetings. Our new President and Past Chairman Tony Howgrave-Graham describes the Kenilworth meeting as an “informal, friendly, happy and very informative affair”. This issue of The Springbok shows that what we do as a collecting society we enjoy collectively. Tony’s article on the 1930 ½d Coil Stamps would not have been out of place in a 1950s era vintage Springbok magazine, a time when our Society’s emphasis on stamps was to the exclusion of much else, like postmarks, covers and postcards. (How we have changed today!)
Tony has also contributed an interesting brief article on the little-known stamp designer ‘Konya’. For an example of his work, see the unaccepted van Riebeeck essays shown on the front cover of The Springbok above. This stamp designer was something of a mystery. Konya was active in the 1950s and responsible for designing a lot of stamps. At some point he went to prison. More details please.
Roy Ross shows 1975 Tourism stamps with missing printing and the 1997 World Environment Day set showing South African waterbirds. (Many South African philatelists and postal historians share a keen interest in bird watching – Jamie Smith, David Morrison and Mike Berry to name but three.) Roy’s ‘Explore our Culture through Philately’ promotes beautiful ‘modern’ South African stamps that we generally don’t see enough of in the UK. The Springbok concludes with an unusual and impressive article on Cinderellas that includes an example of the rare ‘Aliwal North – The Famous Health Resort’ label. There are also postcards of old South African post offices – and more ….!
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