Stellenbosch Filatelistevereniging Stellenbosch Philatelic Society Posbus/P.O. Box 3950 SOMERSET-WES/SOMERSET WEST 7129

Telephone : 083-289-1825 (Niel) E-pos/mail : [email protected] Webwerf : stbphilatelic.wordpress.com

Klubaand : 1ste Dins van mnd om 19:00 Club night : 1st Tues of month at 19:00

Jaargang/Volume: 40 No/Nr: 8

Venue: Die biblioteek, Klubhuis, La Clémence, Webersvallei Road, Stellenbosch

NUUSBRIEF MEI 2019

VORIGE BYEENKOMS 2 APRIL Bywoning: Die Voorsitter, Niel Matthee (NM), verwelkom 11 lede, Ida Potgieter (IP), Claude Matthey (CM), Kraai van Niekerk (KN), Wim van Zyl (WZ), Wilhelm Verwoerd (WV), Malcolm Suttill (MSu), Marlies Stephan (MSt), Pieter Maritz (PM), Siv Borgin (SB) en Hugh Mulder (HM). Verskoning word aangeteken vir Henk Geertsema (HG), Pieter Jolie (PJ), Günter Wossler (GW), Robert Harm (RH), Schalk de Klerk (SK), en Anton Putter (AP). Die Voorsitter verwelkom ook as gaste Jenifer Barry en Carin Lawrie. Carin het gedurende die aand as nuwe lid by ons Klub aangesluit. Lief en Leed: Gelukkige verjaardagwense gaan aan Anton Putter en Emil Bührmann, beide op 12 April. Vorige notule: In die beskrywing van Ida Potgieter se uitstalling moet die woorde L-vormige weggelaat word. Andersins word die vorige notule aanvaar. Correspondence: There was no correspondence received. Club Matters:  The SPS has placed a write-up on club matters in the newspaper Die Bolander and Eikestadnuus, with thanks to Pieter Maritz who had placed the messages. This has led to a visitor, and ultimately a new member.  The Two-page Cup was awarded to one of the members, and still has to be returned. The member is requested to return the cup before or at the next meeting. The result is that tonight’s winner cannot be awarded the Cup.  The total donations for the evening came to R61.20.  Carin Lawrie’s membership was officially accepted. Show, Tell and Ask:  IP shows us a letter that was opened by the Post Office and closed with tape. However, the tape was affixed over the stamps on the cover.  IP and SB are looking for a plastic sleeve containing a magazine on the Royal Family. This was handed to WZ at the March meeting to give to SB, and it cannot now be found.  NM showed two newspaper clippings from the Eikestadnuus en Die Bolander, showing information on our Club.  WV showed a cover with an etiquette sticker instead of a stamp.  MS asked the members on information on the 1890’s Post Bank Savings booklet and stamps. He would like to find out how this works.  HM showed a supplement of the Cape Times newspaper with an article about airmail.  KN wys ons ‘n seëlboekie van Rusland, wat ruimtevaarders. Hy het dit in Rusland gekoop en vertel ons die verhaal. Tema van aand/Theme of evening. The tema was Lufg/Air, en die tema het die innowatiewe denke van diev lede avore gebring.  IP Shoed us Italian pneumatic stamps, showing air being transferred into pneumatic.  WZ sê dat lug hom aan blou lug en wolke laat dink het en wys seëls met wolke en blou lug  HG wys Stellenbosch, Paarl, Franshoek en Somerset Wes se wyne en material van historiese plekke.  MS states that air is a major source of power in the form of wind used to drive sailing ships forward, and shows stamps of sailing ships.  HM showed us Airmail stamps.  WV praat van wolkformasies in die lug, wat gebruik word in weerkunde, wat lei tot meteorotika. Hy wys ‘n koevert van Ciskei met wolkformasies en dan drie bladsye met meteoriete. Hy het baie informasie oorgedra en dit was baie leersaam en interessant. Die twee minute toelaatbare tydgleuf het skoon 15 minute geraak.  PM sê dat lug hom aan die Goodhope Centre Exhibition laat dink met die vrylating van die +- 2000 duiwe en sodoende ons items gewys met voëls, Mathmatician issued Aerogramme, asook Halley se komeet.  WV is die aand se wenner. Uitstalling vir aand/Exhibition of evening: After refreshments, SB show us her collection of Aerogrammes from all over the world that she has received over the years. It was first known as Airletters and then there is the Aerogramme. The background to this collection can be obtained from SB. MS also bought along his one-frame collection on Circular Delivery Companies and explained that it would not be easy to expand the collection to e.g. 5 frames. For competitive reasons though to it would most likely only be a two-frame exhibit and these are not very popular on competitive level. Volgende vergadering: Die volgende vergadering is op 7 May 2019 met die 2-bladsy onderwerp van Stones/Stene, (gemstones/edelstene) Malcolm Suttill is the exhibitor on the evening (Printing of stamps?).

FACTS AND FEATS: THE POSTAL SERVICES The only stamps prepared as an unofficial local issue but issued instead by a government postal administration were the first stamps of Peru. Perkins Bacon of London recess-printed a quantity of stamps for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, a British firm trading along the west coast of South America. The stamps were never actually used by the company, owing to objections raised by the Peruvian authorities. In 1857, however, the Peruvian Post Office considered the introduction of adhesive postage stamps and the company, thereupon, offered its unused stamps to the government for circulation pending the supply of a regular issue. The stamps, bearing the initials of the company (PSNC) in the corners, were in use from 1 Dec 1857 till Mar 1858, when they were superseded by a series specifically inscribed by the country name. Local stamps, usually ignored by government postal administration, have been reproduced on government issues on several occasions. In 1912 a local set of stamps portraying Apollo was prepared for issue in the Dodecanese Islands, but the stamps were suppressed by the Italian military authorities. The design was reproduced on two of the stamps issued by Greece in 1947 to celebrate the transfer of the Dodecanese Islands to Greece. In 1964 one of the Stamp Day stamps issued by Cuba reproduced the 10 centavos stamp issued by the guerrillas in the war against Spain in 1898. A set of stamps issued by Tristan da Cunha for the centenary of the death of Sir Rowland Hill (1979) featured the famous Potato local stamp on the 50p denomination. In Oct 1967 the Irish Republic issued two stamps commemorating the centenary of the Fenian insurrection and reproduced two stamps which purported to be Fenian stamp essays of 1867. It has since been discovered that the essays were a hoax perpetrated by the notorious philatelic swindler, Samuel Allen Taylor of Boston, Massachusetts. Ireland thus has the dubious distinction of being the only country to reproduce bogus stamps on its issues. A newspaper founded a country’s postal service. In 1870 the Fiji Times organised a postal service and heralded it with a jingle: Remember, remember the First of November The day you’ll have reason to bless. For then we commence a thing quite immense To be called the Fiji Times Express. The newspaper proprietor, G.L. Griffiths, not only provided enlarged premises for a post office at Levuka, the islands’ capital, until 1882, but also mailbags, an inter-island mailboat and an issue of stamps (1d, 3d, 6d, 9d and 1s). The stamps were composed or printer’s type and perforated by lines of printer’s dashes, producing a rouletted effect. The service in fact operated between 8 Oct 1870 and May 1872 when it was taken over by the Fiji government. Facts and feats come from: Mackay, James, The Guinness book of Stamps, Guinness Publishing Ltd, Enfield, 1988 Please note that the information used for this article has in many cases been overtaken by events – Ed

THE EVOLUTION OF MAIL AND POSTAGE STAMPS (10) This is an article written by Tom Fortunato, and can be found at the indicated website, and an excerpt will be featured over the next few months. (http://www.frontiernet.net/~stamptmf/exhibits/stampcollecting/index.html) V – These are stamps Sometimes called "scratch-and-sniff" stamps, scented stamps have been around since 1973. Flowers have been popular in this category, but other smells also captured the imagination of artists, postal administrations and collectors.

1973 Bhutan - roses 1999 Brazil - burnt wood for a fire prevention issue

2001 Switzerland - chocolate

2001 Hong Kong – jasmine tea

2003 Russia - fruit How did they do it? Micro-encapsulation, developed in the 1940's for carbonless paper, uses plastic or gelatin nodules only a few microns (millionths of a meter) in size within an aromatic chemical. Scratching the surface breaks these, a few at a time, releasing the scent while preserving the rest for years. Soap and cosmetics use this same process. Stamps have had various substances "attached" to them. Here are just a few examples. 2003 Russia - clay dust on court, silver on cup

2006 Austria - meteorite dust on the orange ink

Famous Swarovski glass crystals were set into stamps in 2004 to honor the company's 100th anniversary.

2004 Austria, Swarovski's Crystal Worlds

To be continued… TIMELINE On 28 May 1900 Britain, represented by Lord Roberts, annexes the Orange Free State, after entering the city of Bloemfontein on 26 May. The Orange Free State was an independent Boer sovereign republic in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, which ceased to exist after it was defeated and surrendered to the British Empire at the end of the Second Boer War in 1902. It is the historical precursor to the present-day Free State province. Extending between the Orange and Vaal rivers, its borders were determined by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1848 when the region was proclaimed as the Orange River Sovereignty, with a seat of a British Resident in Bloemfontein. In the northern part of the territory a Voortrekker Republic was established at Winburg in 1837. This state was in federation with the Republic of Potchefstroom which later formed part of the South African Republic (Transvaal). Following the granting of sovereignty to the Transvaal Republic, the British recognised the independence of the Orange River Sovereignty and the country officially became independent as the Orange Free State on 23 February 1854, with the signing of the Orange River Convention. The new republic incorporated the Orange River Sovereignty and included the traditions of the Winburg-Potchefstroom Republic. Although the Orange Free State developed into a politically and economically successful republic, it experienced chronic conflict with the British (in the Boer Wars) until it was finally annexed as the Orange River Colony in 1900. It ceased to exist as an independent Boer republic on 31 May 1902 with the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging at the conclusion of the Second Anglo-Boer War. Following a period of direct rule by the British, it joined the Union of South Africa in 1910 as the Orange Free State Province, along with the Cape Province, Natal, and the Transvaal. In 1961, the Union of South Africa became the Republic of South Africa. The republic's name derives partly from the Orange River, which in turn was named in honour of the Dutch ruling family, the House of Orange, by the Dutch explorer Robert Jacob Gordon. The official language in the Orange Free State was Dutch. International Society of Worldwide Stamp Collectors, Wikipedia and other sources

Geskryf deur Robert Harm 27 March 2019

CLUB PROGRAMMES (Western Cape)

Bellville Philatelic Society, at the Bellville Public Library at 19:00 on 2nd Wednesday of the month. 15 May 2019 Ladies Cup; Theme based on B. Note: May meeting on 3rd Wednesday due to election. 12 Jun 2019 Thematics and Open Cups; Theme based on C. 10 Jul 2019 Rest of the World Cup; Theme based on D.

CASPIP, home of Dennis Landau, 24 Lochiel Road, Rondebosch at 20:00 on 3rd Wednesday of month. 15 May 2019 No information available. 19 Jun 2019 No information available. 17 Jul 2019 No information available.

Fish Hoek Philatelic Society, at Minor Hall, Fish Hoek Civic Centre at 19:30 on 1st Tuesday of the month. 11 May 2019 Annual Open Stamp Auction on Saturday Morning from 9am to 12pm. 4 Jun 2019 Southern Africa competition & President’s Cup (max 28 pages). 2 Jul 2019 Stamp Sale evening from free tables plus small member’s exhibit.

Paarl Filateliste, MBA Boland-Gebou, Concordia Street, Paarl at 19:30 2nd Thursday of the month. 9 Mei 2019 What does the catalogue say? Union stamps and catalogues – Mike Moll. 13 Jun 2019 Combrinck Cup. Meeting held in Worcester. 11 Jul 2019 Quiz-evening y Mike Moll.

Pinelands Stamp Circle, at Activities Room, Pinelands Library at 19:00 on last Wednesday of the month. 29 May 2019 Open Auction. 26 Jun 2019 My 5 Favourite stamps – all members; David Wolpe shows. 31 Jul 2019 Federal Republic of Germany – Peter Derham; All members Bourse; Treasure Hunt.

Royal Philatelic Society of Cape Town, at Atenaneum on 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month. 13 May 2019 Anglo Boer War Provisional Issues and related Postal History – Roddy Sparks. 27 May 2019 Commemorative Issues of Union of South Africa – Danie Scheepers. 10 Jun 2019 Military mail, the Peace of 1919 and Aftermath – all members. 24 Jun 2019 Colonial Hong Kong – John Kilroe; Malta – Brian Franklin. 245 Apr 2018 Rare and Mysterious Columbian Stellenbosch Philatelic Society, at La Clémence, Webersvallei Rd, Stellenbosch at 19:00 on 1st Tuesday of month. 7 May 2019 Show, Tell and Ask; Malcolm Suttill’s evening; Theme: Gemstones. 4 Jun 2019 Show, Tell and Ask; 2 Jul 2019 Show, Tell and Ask;

Walker Bay Stamp Club, at the Hermanus Bowling Club/Kleinmond Public Library at 17:30 on 1st Monday of month. 6 May 2019 No information available. 3 Jun 2019 No information available.

Thematics SA (WC Chapter), at Church Hall, DRC Vallei, c/o Postma and St Andrews Strs, Oakdale, Bellville 09:30. 4 May 2019 All members show pages from exhibits they working on to get comments. 1 Jun 2019 All members show pages from exhibits they working on to get comments. 6 Jul 2019 All members show pages from exhibits they working on to get comments.

CAPE STAMP FAIR Church Hall, DRC Vallei, c/o Postma and St Andrews Streets, Oakdale, Bellville at 09:00 until 12:30. 4 May 2019 1 Jun 2019 6 Jul 2019 This meeting takes place Church Hall DRC Bergsig, c/o Boland Way and Protea Street. Auction 18 May 2019 Church Hall, DRC Durbanville-Bergsig, c/o Boland Way and Protea Street, Durbanville.

PHILATELIC TERMS : B-5 Bibliography: McKay, James, Philatelic Terms Illustrated, Stanley Gibbons Publications, Ringwood, 2003. Nováček, Jiři, Guide to Stamp Collecting, Chartwell Books Inc, New Jersey, 1989. Smith, Anna H. (Ed), The language of stamp collecting, Johannesburg Public Library, 1959. Wood, Kenneth A. (Ed), This is Philately, Van Dahl Publications, Albany, 1982 Graham, Harold T. (Ed), A Glossary of Philatelic Terms, Philatelic Congress of Great Britain, 1951 Wikipedia Encyclopaedia at www.wikipedia.com.

Beaver The nickname Beaver is given to the first Canadian postage stamp, the 3d stamp issued in 1851 for the province of Canada. The design was repeated for the 5c stamp of 1859 and also was reproduced on the 15c denomination of the 1951 Canadian Stamp Centenary set. The stamp is claimed to be the first postage stamp to depict an animal, other than Homo Sapiens. The initial stamp was engraved and intaglio printed, but was issued imperforate’ It was released in 1858 with an 11.75 perforation. The stamp was designed by Sir Sandford Fleming.

Belgian Occupation of Germany At the end of WW1, Belgium occupied parts of Gemany that were later to become Belgian territory. In 1919, stamps of Belgium were overprinted ALLEMAGNE DUITSCHLAND for use in the occupied territory. This was followed in 1920 by Belgian stamps surcharged and overprinted EUPEN & MALMEDY. Also issed were stamps of Belgium overprinted EUPEN plus others overpinted MALMEDY.

Benaders Two stamps of Iran’s 1911-12 issue depicting Shah Ahmed were overprinted BENADERS and surcharged. They were issued in 1921 for use at Iranian ports on the Persian Gulf, where old postal rates were kept in use to compete with rates used by the Indian Postal Agencies in the area that had not increased their rates. Reference is Sutton in The Stamp Collector’s Encyclopaedia, Bonanza 1966.

Beneficencia The term refers to charity labels issued in Spain. These stamp-like items have no franking value, but occasionally turn up to puzzle collectors. S. Nathan, a philatelic writer of Barcelona, confirms their non- postal status but notes that they can be found alone on a cover and thus gives the impression that they franked it. However, such usage was by those who possessed a franking privilege, as in the illustrated example, which was from one postal employee to another.

Bengasi The overprint BENGASI together with a surcharge is found on stamps of Italy. They were released in 1901 and 1911 for use by the Italian post office in the Cyrenaican city of Benghazi, which at that time was still part of the Ottoman Empire.

BESA This was an overprint used by the Albanian postal authorities to the genuine stamps of 1922. This step was taken due to the fact that large quantities of forged stamps were in circulation. The word means genuine.

Besetzes/Gebiet/Nordfrankreich These words are reported by Scott (of Scott Catalogue fame) to have been hand-stamped in black on three definitive stamps then current by the German occupiers and used in the area of Dunkerque following the British of the town in 1940.

Beyrouth Stamps issued by Russia in 1909 for use in the Turkish Empire were overprinted with the names of various Turkish cities in which there were Russian post offices. These stamps overprinted Beyrouth (Beirut) were issued in 1910 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Russian post offices in the Turkish Empire.

B.G. This term has two totally different meanings. In the first instance the letters B.G. stand for Bollo Gazzatte, an inscription on newspaper tax stamps in Modena. The second meaning, arguably better known, it refers to an overprint used in South Australia. Prior to the introduction of stamps overprinted O.S. in 1874 for general Official Service use, the British colony of South Australia used a variety of different overprints to indicate use by specific government departments. In this case the term stood for Botanical Gardens.

Bicoloured A stamp that is printed in two colours (before the days of multi-coloured designs) is said to be bi-coloured. Such stamps usually had two main elements, a frame and a central design, known as the vignette. Most often the vignette would be printed in black, and the frame in various different colours. This production method made it possible for inverted centre errors (as sown in one of many examples). This type of error came about as vignette and frame were printed separately because of their different colours. After the sheet was printed the first time, the sheet was fed through the press a second time inverted in relation to the first impression. Which was the first pass or which element was correctly oriented in respect to any watermark would determine whether the centre or the frame was inverted, since it could be either.

BIE This was the overprint used in Switzerland in 1946 for use by the Bureau International d’Education Office. The overprint was printed vertically.

Bilingual A stamp is said to be bilingual when its inscription is printed partially or totally in two languages. Examples are the stamps of Canada, the Union of South Africa and Belgium, to name just a few. South Africa has issued stamps on which two languages appear, and also stamps in sheets on which two languages appear separately on alternative stamps. These are usually collected in se-tenant pairs. For years the New Hebrides released duplicate issues differing only in the language used.

B.I.T. The overprint B.I.T. plus OCT. 1930 marks the 50th meeting of the Council of the International Labour Bureau in Brussels.

Bit This term is given to the metal shape of a watermark that is affixed to a roller known as the dandy roller used during the papermaking process. The bit is impressed into the newly formed paper, causing it to be thinner at that point, and thus a watermark appears in the shape of the bit.

Black Honduras The Black Honduras is considered the most valuable single foreign air mail stamp, and it has been referred to as the British Guinea 1 c of the air mail area. The stamp is a black overprint and surcharge (hence its name) reading AERO/CORREA/25 on the 10 c dark blue stamp of the Honduras 1915-16 regular issue. The design illustrates Puente Ulua (Bridge Ulua). Only one copy is known. The set of which this stamp is part was overprinted to frank mail on a proposed air mail service between Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, and the Caribbean coast city of Puerto Cortes. Nine denominations were overprinted, of which four values were surcharged (incl. Black Honduras) as well. Due to the frailty of the aircraft, the flight was problematic. The overprint was done on behalf of Dr Pounds (holder of the air mail service contract), with permission of the Honduran government to overprint and surcharge the regular stamps, by a job printer Karl Snow on a small hand-operated press (reference Irving I. Green, The Black Honduras, The Collector’s Club, New York, 1962.

Compiled by Robert Harm 10 May 2019