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1960
Fifty Years of Union, UNIPEX Memories, Stamps
and Varieties
By Otto Peetoom
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1960
Six Commemorative Stamps in One Month
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To
celebrate the Fiftieth Anniversary of
the Union of South Africa a set of four
stamps was issued on 2 May 1960 plus
a 1/3 single value that celebrated the
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They were followed at the end
of the month by a single 3d value issued on
31 May 1960 depicting six of the Union’s
Prime Ministers. In my opinion it is a rather
dull stamp that is listed as SG 184 or UHB
144.
Its issue coincided with the 1960 International
Stamp Exhibition ‘UNIPEX’ held
in the city centre in Johannesburg from 30
May until 4 June. I bought numerous first
day covers of the 3d Union with singles, pairs
and blocks of four.
UNIPEX
- These dates were during school holidays
and I recall that as a fourteen year old
boy, I travelled on the bus into Johannesburg
and visited the exhibition every single
day of opening. I viewed the frames of stamps
in wonderment and awe and I remember that
part of H.R.H. the Queen’s display
included colour trials of the 1954 Australian
3½d Red Cross (SG 276).
It was the first major
exhibition I had visited and looked on with
envy as a young man bought a first day cover
for the Rhodesia & Nyasaland 17 May
1960 Kariba Dam issue from Alan Leverton
on the Bridger And Kay stand. With a face
value of 10/6 the cost of such a precious
item was completely beyond my means.
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Details
of the May 1960 Printings - August
1960 S.A.P.
Described as The Festival Series Postage
Stamps, all with a Union Coat of Arms watermark
- All stamps in sheets of 120
Value
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Delivered
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Cylinders
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Sheets
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Total |
4d |
22.3.1960 |
16/95 |
17,855 |
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3.5.1960 |
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106,900 |
124,755 |
6d |
25.2.1960 |
88/52/24 |
12,000 |
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15.3.1960 |
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69,300 |
81,300 |
1/- |
25.2.1960 |
100/29 |
35,000 |
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36,880 |
71,880 |
1/6 |
3.3.60 |
34/44 |
17,500 |
17,500 |
Railway
Centenary
Job No 71574 - 1/3 order for 26,000
Sheets
Cylinders 9/29 - Initial and total delivery
on 1 March 1960 of 26,000 Sheets
31 May - Union Day
Job No 71570 - 3d order for 1,200,000 Sheets
Cylinders 11/94 - Initial delivery 41,000
on 5 May 1960
Total delivery of 1,270,855 sheets reported
in May 1961 S.A.P.
Watermarks
The Springbok head watermark appeared on
stamps of the Union for almost fifty years
(1913 - 1959). In late 1959 a Union Coat
of Arms watermark was introduced and first
used on eight reprinted values of the Animal
definitives
SG 170 to 177.
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downside of this particular watermark
is that it is not only difficult to
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Union
Coat of Arms watermark - Because
of the size of the order, different rolls
of paper were employed. This may be detected
when viewing the watermark on these stamps.
Some are fairly clear, whilst others are
very faint and are hard to distinguish.
I inspected several copies in my possession
and realized that, unless the stamps are
marginal, the watermark on some individual
stamps is extremely difficult to detect.
Even when I resorted to using a device called
a Signoscope, I had minor success in actually
seeing a watermark.
Varieties
on the 3d Union
Discounting
the minor varieties listed in the UHB (1986)
as V1 to V5, SG includes SG 184a Pale brown
omitted with a footnote:
This is due to a rectangular piece of
paper adhering to the background cylinder,
resulting in R2/1 missing the colour completely
and six adjoining stamps having it partially
omitted. The item in block of eight is probably
unique.
I have never
seen this piece, do not recall it in any
auction catalogue or have any idea who the
present owner may be and it is the final
major variety of the Union of South African.
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What's
in a Name
By Otto Peetoom
UGIE is
in Griqualand East, 18 kms Southwest of
Maclear at the foot of the Drakensberg.
Known for the M.T.R. Smit Children's Haven
for underprivileged, abandoned and abused
children. M.T.R. are the initials of Mattheus
Theodorus Rehuel Smit, I have not been able
to establish his status, but he wrote several
books circa 1930's.
Ugie was founded in late February
1863 by a Scotsman William Murray (born
15 July 1837) William arrived on a steamer
at Port Elizabeth on 24 August 1862 with
his wife Ann and baby daughter.
The Reverend William Murray, member of the
Free Church of Scotland, was sent by the
London Missionary Society to the then Cape
Colony in South Africa to do missionary
work amongst the Griquas of Adam Kok III
who settled during 1862 in the present Kokstad
area.
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He was also qualified as
a medical doctor.
The family travelled to Grahamstown by Coach
and from there proceeded by ox wagon through
Fort Beaufort to Hackney in the district
of Queenstown and were caught in a snowstorm
at Katberg and shortly after reaching Hackney,
his baby daughter died on 9 September 1862
and his wife the following day.
Towards the end of February 1863 a deputation
of the Griquas left I Nxu Drift by ox wagon
to fetch Murray. The wagon leader was April
de Wet, the driver of the oxen was Jacob
Franks and he was assisted by Gert du Plooy
and Tom Croutz. . They returned to I Nxu
Drift at the evening of 8th March. As Murray
got off the wagon, he looked around him
and went on his knees next to a rock and
prayed. Oh, God is this my destiny...If
so...Abide with me...
William stood up and to
remind him of the area he grew up in the
New Deer province in Aberdeenshire in Scotland,
he decided to call the place Ugie.
His father was a shoemaker and small farmer
on the banks of the Ugie River near New
Pitslego. The Ugie River originates in the
mountains near New Byth, flows through the
Bucnan Hills and then into the North Sea
at Peterhead near the city of Fraserburgh.
The railwayline between Aberdeen and Fraserburgh
crosses the Ugie River between Maud and
Strichen stations.
The Scots pronounces Ugie as Oogie
and is derived from the word Oorie
of the Vikings in Iceland and means to get
cold, literally to shiver of the cold.
The
M.T.R. Smit Children's Haven
The Children’s Haven originated during
the Great Flu of 1918, when a substantial
number of parents died and children were
orphaned. This lead to the establishment
of an orphanage at Ugie in the North-Eastern
Cape, as a community based and community
driven, non-subsidized welfare organization.
The Children’s Haven was officially
established in 1922, when the Government
admitted the first children to the orphanage.
M.T.R. Smit Children’s
Haven, named after its founder, relocated
to Port Elizabeth in 1987, in an effort
to improve its capacity to render services
to the community. This materialized after
lengthy discussion between the Government,
community leaders, church denominations,
and the Department of Education.
The Children’s Haven is a multi-racial
institution, currently provides accommodation
for 100 statutory children between the ages
of 3-18 years. The Haven also aims at providing
accommodation for the mentally disabled
children who have been removed from parental
care in terms of the Child Care Act.
Postscript
Much of the Burmeister correspondence originated
from small towns and Postal Agencies in
South Africa and whenever I come across
a postmark of a place I have not encountered
before, I always look it up and locate it
on a map.
We are fortunate nowadays to simply Google
anything and everything and the above information
was gleaned in such a manner.
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SPINK
The Jack Bloom Sale
24 October 2013
Included 255 Lots of Union Material and
the second to last lot 2254 was described
1943 - 44 Military 3d "SUID-AFRIKA"
with two-line (bilingual) inscription
WITH BEST
WISHES FROM
S.A. GIFTS AND COMFORT FUND
unused.
Fine and scarce. H&G 10
Estimate £100 - £150
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Imprint Inside Reverse
front Panel
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Is
This the World's Most Expensive Aerogramme?
This item is listed in Kessler's
Catalogue of Aerograms Volume II on
page 151 as No 151 (English) & 152 (Afrikaans)
and described as:
1943 September.
Jewish New Year Issue. Military aerograms
of South Africa No's 109 and 110 (printed
in Pretoria) with black imprint in Hebrew
and English on the reverse side of the front
panel as illustrated. it is believed that
the extra printing was done in Palestine by
the printing establishment of the British
Palestine Police. One sheet only was issued
to individual Jewish members of the South
African Forces in ample time for posting before
Jewish new year 5704 (1944)
I thought Lot 2254 would go well with my WWII
collection and anticipated securing it at
around estimate. By the time I dropped out
of the bidding it was already Getting
Silly! - Yet the bidding continued
relentlessly and the hammer came down at £3500
and that was before Buyer's Premium and other
add-ons. Rumour has
it that a dealer bought this lot, thus its
price would go even higher!
During 2009 I had contact with Jerome Kasper
from the USA, who probably owns the most extensive
collection of World Aerogrammes. Jerome sent
me a copy of an Exhibit in which he nominated,
what in his opinion are, twenty of the rarest
known Aerogrammes in the World. I do not recall
the above item being part of it as it is in
fact a relatively common item - The Jewish
New Year add-on is in fact the deciding factor
for its Film Star Price.
The African Aerogramme that is in the top
ten Vote on Rarities goes
to a Southern Rhodesia KGVI 6d Provisional
local print being H&G 2 (Kessler 2) -
Around three mint copies are known and about
a dozen used examples - I wrote an article
on the foregoing in my publication The
Rhodesian Philatelist
No 28 in January 2009.
Posted by Otto
Peetoom 28 October 2014
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1950 The South African Philatelist
A Printer
Studies Stamp Collecting
By A.I. MacKenzie
- Bloemfontein |
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Recently
I joined a Philatelic Society. As a beginner
I was anxious to learn something about my new
hobby and I learnt a lot. However, as a printer,
I was struck by one aspect of philatelic activities,
namely the method the average collector approached
the question of colour.
Through no fault of their own, but because
most collectors are naturally ignorant of
how stamps are printed and how colours are
manufactured and mixed, I find some of the
ideas bordering on the humorous. A great many
collectors seem to be fascinated by names
given to colours. Names such as azure, bistre,
magenta and brown have a great attraction.
However, what is meant by azure, for instance?
How is it classified, what are the standards
required for a colour to be azure? There are
no answers to these questions. Different people
have different ideas. Therein lies confusion.
How does the printer deal with this problem?
In the first place printers reject the theory
of light. We do not say it is necessarily
wrong, but it does not work in practical printing.Printers
divide colours into three main sections. These
are primary colours, red, yellow and blue;
secondary colours, orange, green and violet;
and tertiary colours, russet, citrene and
olive. Now theoretically any colour required
can be obtained by mixing primaries. In practice,
however, black is generally used as well in
order to obtain better results. Red, yellow
and blue are called primaries because, in
printing, it is impossible to break them up
into any other colours. For instance, secondary
colours are made by mixing primaries. Red
and yellow make orange; yellow and blue make
green; and red and blue make violet.
In the same way that tertiary colours are
made from secondary colours.
Orange and violet make russet, green and
orange make citrene, and violet and green
make olive.
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Just looking at the above
leads to a great many questions, such as:
what are the primaries made of ? What proportions
of the primaries are used to make the secondary’s?
The primaries may come from
three sources- earths, vegetable matter and
chemicals. Take yellow, for instance. Yellow
can be derived from all three sources, but
each one will be of a different hue. So the
first thing the printer has to do is to make
sure that all the colours he is using have
come from a common source. They must be all
earth colours or all chemical colours.
It is dangerous to mix, say, an earth yellow
with, say, a vegetable blue.
Red and yellow make orange-
but what proportion, 50-50, or 60-40? Both
mixtures will result in an orange colour,
but the two colours will differ.
What is the difference between
a shade and a tint? A shade is a colour which
has had black added to it, a tint is a colour
which has had white added to it. A shade will
be light or dark depending upon the amount
of black which has been added.
Colours are affected by light. A sheet of
stamps printed in England, for instance, in
blue, is sent to Northern Rhodesia. From there
it is returned to England. The result? It
will be difficult to believe that the original
sheet has been returned.
Heat and moisture have played strange tricks.
The sheet now has a large variety of shades
and hues.
Another important point. The
glue or gum on the back of the stamp affects
the colour of the stamp. The chemicals in
the glue work through the paper and go to
work on the ink.
Of course, if it is a chemical ink that has
been used......well, are you a chemist?
Perhaps enough has been said
to show that it is an unwise policy to go
snap on colours. Colours are misleading and
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March
1951 - The South African Philatelist
Union
Georgian Stamps Repaired Paper Varieties
By A. Hilton Sydow
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The paragraph
quoted hereunder was excerpted from page
36 of that excellent contribution to the
philatelic bibliography of the Union of
South Africa by Dean HE Lobdell of the Massachusetts’s
Institute of Technology, namely The De La
Rue Georgians of South Africa.
Repaired Paper
- A variety caused by the patching of a
torn sheet with the result that the printed
impression of one or more stamps falls upon
each side of a tear. Mr Sydow has this variety,
which is rare, in three panes of the ½d,
one with control 5 and two with control
6 and in a strip of five of the 1½d.
In response
to written requests by two overseas readers
of The South African Philatelist I have
set out diagrammatic form the positions
of the several strips of paper adhesively
affixed to the torn portions of two 60-set
strips of Georgian stamps of the ½d
denomination which were letterpress printed
by Thos. De La Rue and Company Limited from
the 240-set of plates No’s 5 and 6.
In addition to the
afore – mentioned two lower right-hand
panes of ½d stamps, my Union collection
also houses a 60-set top left-hand pane
from plate 6; a top right hand pane of 60
units from plate 5; a 6-set ½d denominated
booklet pane; a 1½d denominated vertical
strip of five units; a block of 8 two penny
denominated stamps. Incidentally it may
be mentioned here that Simenhoff has catalogued
these ½d, 1½d and 2d denominated
repaired paper varieties in the first supplement
to the South African Standard Catalogue.
The several strips of paper utilized for
patching the torn sheets were affixed to
the gummed sides of the printed sheets of
stamps before the latter were subjected
to the process of comb perforation and consequently
torn sheets of printed stamps were perforated
pari passu (Latin for with an equal step
or on equal footing).
Close examination revealed that these affixed
strips of paper were not watermarked at
all.
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1927 10/- Aniline blue and brown SG 39 Variation
- SACC 39c
By Otto Peetoom
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Blue and Brown |
Aniline
Blue and Brown |
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illustration has been taken
from a colour photocopy and unfortunately
I do not recall who bought it
What remains a mystery
is that there is no record or mention of this
variation in any of the Union handbooks
I
have possessed an Aniline blue that has a
PFSA certificate No 10070
I bought it from a Stephan Welz auction
on 11 May 1993 as part of Lot 343 and the
description states
10/-
deep blue and brown (superb colour) with aniline
headplate very fine unmounted mint
– It made
triple estimate
The next lot 344 offered - 10/- fine used
blk of 4 with aniline centres (SG 39 var),
soaking has tended to defuse slightly the
extent of aniline ptg but still very distinctive
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- A
search on the Internet produced this
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Dictionary
Definition Aniline
Ink
- A quick-drying printing ink usually
made with an alcohol as vehicle and an organic
or inorganic pigment
Internet Posting
- Aniline ink was an ink with a coal-tar
base, that was designed to "bleed"
to prevent re-use of a stamp
Stamp
collecting Terms - Water-soluble
ink with a dye base that runs when wet used
in printing Roosevelt small die proofs
Mimi Philately -
Aniline colours are distilled from coal-tar.
Ink made of these colours is used as the
basis of certain dyes in postage stamps.
Aniline ink immediately penetrates between
the fibres of uncoated paper
Mystic Stamp
Company (USA) According to them
- Postal officials have long been concerned
that unscrupulous individuals steal postal
service by “cleaning” the cancels
from used stamps and re-mailing them During
the 1860s, stamps were grilled to deter
this practice
Another means of stopping the reuse of stamps
is to print them with water-soluble ink.
If such a stamp is soaked, either for removal
from an envelope or to “clean”
a cancel, its ink lifts off the paper leaving
it faded or “washed out”. In
1856, Dr. William Perkin discovered aniline
could be mixed with ink to make vibrant
colours. In 1893, a small number
of the rare #244 Columbian stamps were printed
in pale aniline rose ink - These stamps
have a very distinctive colour
Northwest
Philatelic Library Research
‘Aniline Violet’
and Synthetic Inks By Charles
Neyhart
Aniline inks deeply
penetrate the paper fibres, unlike ordinary
ink which clings to the surface, and the
colour will show on the back of the stamp
in varying degrees
This is an extensive write up that
can be accessed via this link http://www.nwpl.org/documents/january2010.full.pdf
From what has been said above, we have established
that an Aniline Ink soakes through the paper.
The
colour ought to clearly show on the reverse
and I can confirm that the pair I owned
with PFSA certificate No 10070 has that
particular feature and is in my opinion
a very rare stamp indeed.
During thirty five years of continuous trading
it is the only example I have seen, in fact
only recently I had an email from a collector
enquiring as to whether or not I could supply
such a pair
September 2014 One of our
members Dimitrios (Jim) Dounis has
sent in scans of his Union Aniline stamps
and we may now view the reverse of a 10/-
Table Mountain Definitive
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Union Issues with Aniline Colours
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(Jim) Dounis sent in scans of
the Hyphenated 1/- Gnu definitives from UHB
Issues 4 and 5 that also show the colour through
the back of the stamp |
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1945 1d Victory Commemorative is another example
that has the vignette printed with Aniline
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Daily
Topics - Past and Present
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This
was intended to be an informative
page that enables anyone to
send in a few lines of information
that may be of interest to Collectors
of Southern Africa. Unfortunately
very few people appear to take
an interest in this project
and I have now amalagamated
what I have with the Article
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Glossary
of Philatelic Terms
It appears that not everyone
is familiar with the above
title, yet it may be found
in virtually every Philatelic
Library.
It is one of these useful
publications that very few
people take the time to read
and with today’s speedy
emails it is much quicker
to send out a collective email
and ask someone else to enlighten
one with a question.
Robson Lowe’s
forerunner to his Philatelic
Encyclopaedias is his 1935
edition of THE
REGENT ENCYCLOAEDIA of Empire
Postage Stamps.
Granted some of the information
might be a little dated, but
this packed volume includes
A Glossary of
Philatelic Terms pages
81 - 92. The content was Compiled
for The Philatelic Congress
of Great Britain by a Sub-Committee
consisting of (the late) W.
Dorn Beckton, B. Goodfellow,
F.J. Melville and (the late)
A.J. Sefi
Jaco Beyleveld
asks what is an Error or a
Variety, without the Glossary
of Philatelic Terms
most advanced Philatelists
can probably write a comprehensive
essay on the foregoing. However
on this occassion I quote
the definition attributed
to these words by a well known
and highly respected Philatelist
of the past such as Fred Melville.
Error
A stamp printed in the wrong
colour, or on the wrong paper,
on both sides of the paper,
or having something abnormal
about it, but which has been
issued by a post office.
Variety
Any
stamp showing differences
from the normal is styled
a variety. Such varieties
may be major, minor, or insignificant.
There is of course a modern
solution to all the above,
simply paste Glossary
of Philatelic Terms
into Google and take your
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Dr
Hendrik Geyer writes
The three other images are
recent local BoB purchases
of ½d roto printing
arrow/part arrow blocks. They
seem to have originated from
the same mailing (cds’s)
and the arrows seem to leave
no doubt that they are from
the second issue (also confirmed
by comparing detail with images
in Ward). Yet the date of
10 July 1931 seems to be in
conflict with all the information
I have been able to trace
in the Union Handbook or Ward’s
publication. Hagger 1986 only
indicates “early 1932”
and Ward in his table gives
1930 for issue 2 (which seems
to be an error in any case,
as this would pre-date issue
1 (?) The earlier issues of
the Handbook also provide
no further useful information.
I would presume the anomaly
may be clarified with access
to back issues of the SA Philatelist,
but perhaps you have an immediate
answer? I would appreciate
hearing from you.
Otto
Peetoom writes:
With reference to the ½d
Springbok blocks, Hendrik
cofirms that they are all
Upright Watermark
Whenever there is a query
re alleged dates of printing/issue
there can often be a grey
area that ought to be investigated
by going back in time rather
than starting with Hagger
in1986.
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The
South African Philatelist
1931/32
During this era the Editor
appeared to be more interested
in announcing World New Issues
rather than reviewing current
Union Printings.
The only notes on the ½d
Springbok Rotogravure printing
I found in the March 1931
S.A.P. on page 24 - As
briefly noted last month,
sheets of
½d rotogravure stamps
are now on sale, and nearly
every sheet at present obtainable
in the Union has the watermark
inverted.
Union
Handbook catalogues
Simenhoff
- First Supplement February
1932 merely updates his 1930
publication, thus there is
no mention of a ½d
rotogravure.
1946 and 1952 Editions no
specific dates for the issues
of the ½d
1960 Handbook Issue 1 January
1931,
Issue 2 1932
Gordon
Ward The Springbok Half-Penny
(Circa 1956)
Refers to the ½d Rotogravure
as Group B and dates Issue
I January
1931 and Issue
II about
September 1931
(See page 12 & 13 in his
book)
In my opinion
- The use of the word about
suggests
the Author is unsure and September
is merely a guess.
Dr Geyer’s blocks are
all postmarked with the same
datestamp JOHANNESBURG 27
- 10 JUL 31
Issue II is merely Reprint
and it would seem reasonable
that a major centre like Johannesburg
may well be one of the first
offices to receive a supply
of a ½d reprint.
Please
send in other/different opinions
for consideration
Tony
Howgrave-Graham wrote
The ½d
blocks are interesting - they
are definitely Issue 2 - Hagger
seems to have guessed at the
dates of issue of the various
unhyphenated.
He was some way out with the
2ds - the early ½d
Issue 2 are watermark up or
inverted (I don't think it's
known which came first)
Issue 1 is quite scarce which
would certainly fit with Issue
2 appearing earlier - it's
a shame his left arrow piece
doesn't extend 1 row further
right as we'd see the centre
on row 9/5 before the cobweb
retouch!
Tony
also commented on Mike Tonking's
item below
I also liked Mike Tonking's
doubled watermarks - like
you I've never heard of them
- we'd need a paper maker
to explain how this happened
- a jolt to the machine during
pressing? - it'd be good if
Mike could provide a scan
or drawing to show what the
doubling looks like - I'll
check my copies next time
I'm in amongst them.
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Mike Tonking has
sent in two scans of 50c
Cylinder blocks A &
B and writes - The 50c RSA
First Definitive
Group 2, Issue 2 appeared
in January 1971. It was
printed on the Goebel 841
press two panes each of
100 stamps
(20 rows x 5) on Harrison
glossy paper with the RSA
tete-beche watermark.
The examples shown have
the watermark doubled which
was seen on some sheets.
An example of the A control
was offered by Stephan Welz
lot 678 in the 8 August
1978 auction, estimated
R1000 - 1500.
The query I have is how
did this variety occur and
how rare might it be?
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Otto
Peetoom Comment - This
watermark variation is not
listed in the SACC and it
is the first time I that
I have heard of it. I assume
that many others are unaware
of its existence thus it
would not occur to most
of us to look for it. On
that basis it is difficult
to comment on its rarity
being blissfully unaware
of it.
Roy
Ross made
the comment that he believed
there had been a mention
of this variety in a South
African Philatelist issue
circa 1970's, does anyone
have a reference to such
a report?
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The
History of Philatelic Colour
Guides - A Review
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Illustrated throughout in
colour
Anyone who may have an interest
in the subject
Please contact me by email
ottopeetoom@btinternet.com
A
Twenty Page Essay on the above
subject has been published
and includes:
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Editorial
- Acknowledgements
A Philatelic History of Colour
Guides
1884 - A Color Chart Designed
to Illustrate and
Identify the Colors of Postage
Stamps
Preface
1899 A Colour Dictionary by
B.W. Warhurst
A Make Shift Colour Guide from
Stanley Gibbons
Chart 2077 with 45 Used Stamps
Stanley Gibbons’ Colour
Guide for Stamp Collectors
(Improved Edition)
The Perkins,
Bacon coloured labels
The Harrison and Sons Cards
- A Stanley Gibbons Statement
Perkins & Bacon Die Proof
and Mint Blocks
Label No 14 - Double Print of
Scarlet
Six Versions of Colour Guide
Charts
SG Colour Guide (Improved Edition)
Chart 2077
with 100 Perkins, Bacon Labels
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Stanley
Gibbons Remarks on Card
2077
Newfoundland Confusion and
an unhelpful card 2077
What Colour or Shade is
It?
Stock Item 2077 becomes
Obsolete
Solferino and Magenta -
Farewell Solferino
A POPULAR COLOUR CHART for
Stamp Collectors
September 1949
A
Convenient Gap in the UK
Colour Chart market
Precise Details of COLOUR
CHART for Stamp Collectors
Retailed by H.E. Wingfield
392 Strand, London
1950’s - Another Stanley
Gibbons Colour Guide
The Last Stanley Gibbons
Colour Guide charts
Colours on Chart No 3333
an Analysis
Colour Keys
LIPSIA Philatelistische
Farbentafeln
Philart Colour
Guides
Postscript
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Posted
By Otto Peetoom
Sixty
Four Years Ago
- 1949 UPU Issue Surplus
Stock of Union and S.W.A.
February
1950 The South African
Philatelist UPU
Remainders
With
the issue of the Voortrekker
Monument Commemoratives on
the 1st December, 1949 and
the withdrawal of the UPU
series on the same date, a
letter received from Mr T.F.
Allpass, Germiston mentions
that the UPU "remainders"
were not being returned by
the various post offices for
destruction, but instead,
were being used up on parcels,
telegrams and accounting documents.
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A
similar report followed three
months later
May
1950 The South African
Philatelist
Using
Up Surplus Stocks of UPU Stamps
Mr
T.F. Allpass of Germiston
notes that there has been
a redistribution of UPU stamps
to some post offices for use
of internal accounting matter
such as telegrams and parcels.
The stamps are not for sale
to the public in the usual
manner and he understands
this step has been taken in
order to use up stocks left
on hand and thereby avoid
waste.
The
Situation in South West Afica
Starting
with the remainders of the
1935 Silver Jubilee issue,
SWA used their "Remainder"
by overprinting them and putting
the stamps to use as Inland
Revenues (Reported in the
May SAP on page 66) - The
left over UPU issues were
treated in a similar manner
See illustration of such an
example at left.
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The
Illustrated Block may be
similar to the
Stamps stolen from the Government
Printer
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Posted
By Otto Peetoom - Those
were the Days - August
1949 The South African
Philatelist Dealer's
Advertisement from Douglas
Roth offering Die Proofs of
Gambia, Gibraltar, Kenya,
Nigeria and St Helena at £12
each!
Did
You Know? - April
1949 The South African
Philatelist News
Item
It
was reported in the Rand
Daily Mail that two employees
of the Government Printing
Works in Pretoria were found
guilty in the Magistrate's
Court of the theft of three
strips of eight and one block
of four imperforate imperfect
3d Union Postage Stamps.
One of the accused pleaded
guilty and said he had sold
the stamps for £2. He
had asked the other accused
to get them for him.
The second accused pleaded
not guilty and said he gave
the stamps to the first accused
for his collection. He did
not know that that imperfect
stamps were of considerably
higher value to collectors
than ordinary stamps. Both
were fined £15 with
the alternative of a month's
imprisonment.
Collectors are warned against
the purchase of any such stamps
if they are offered to them. |
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