THE SOUTH AFRICAX PHILATELIST. 157 It is of interest to note that during the period of this issue, Rhodesia entered the r~1iversal Postal Union (1st April, 1900) and adopted the Im- perial Penny Posta:ge (1st December, 1908).
OBSLDIONAL CURHE~CY STA~IPS, l'.JUU.
Altho11gh these currency ca-rds are not placed in the same categol'y as post~ge st .. mps, mention should be made of them in passing, to show to what use sttrmps '.lave· been put in Rhodesia.
Currency Cards Illustrated.
During the Anglo-Boer ,var in 1900, Bulawayo was once again cut oft from supplies, owing to the Boers holding the railways and high roads.
l\Iouey became very scarce, and to remedy this the Administration issued ca:rds to which postage stamps of varions issues were affixed. 'l'he stamps wer? affixed to the plain side of the card, the other side having the following printed on it:-" The Civil Commissioner, Bulawayo. Please pay in c&sh to the person rroducing this card the face value of the stamp affixed thereto, if presented· on or after the 1st August, l!)OO."
It bear!:! the imprint "Chronicfo Printing '\Yorks, Bulawayo," and 1s stamped w:th the rubber stamp of the Administrator's Office, Bulawayo, m purple. a'l.d signed H. Marshall Hole, Secretary, in black.
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five rows of five, with plain margins, except for the imprint "Waterlow &
Som, Limited, London \Vall, London, E.C.," at the foot, and the sheet number printed in black in the lower right-hand corner. These stamps a:re single-line ma-chine perforated. gauging 14 to 15.
There was only· one printing of each denomination, and the i,upply printed was not a very large one. A separate plate was made for each value. This set was in concurrent use with the permanent issue of 1898-1908.
The following is a synopsis of varieties and date of first' issue:-
Special date ca:nceL .g stamp, "British Assoc." Victoria Falls.
Type: as illm,trated above. Engraved in ta:ille-douce, and printed b, Me,,srs. \Vaterlow & Sons, Ltd., London.
Perforations: 14 to 15 by single-line machine.
Paper: Thick white wove. No waterma:rk. Gum: Pale yellow.
Date of first issue: 13th July, 1905. In single colours.
1. ld., red.
2. 2½d., deep blue.
3. 5d., claret.
4. ls., blue-green.
5. 21,. 6d., hlack.
6. 5s,, violet.
:Minor shades are found m all denominations.
VARIETIES.
'fhe only varieties noted in this issue are in the ls. value. One sheei was found with ,i single row of horizontal perfora:tions missing, thus pro..
ducmg five verti<:al pairs imperforate between, and one sheet with the vet·tica) perforations missing except between stamps and margin. Thi, very rare item is illustrated a-hove.
1. ls., bhie-green, imperforate between vertical pair.
2. ls., blue-green, imperforate between horizontal pair.
(To be continued.)
THE SOUTH .AFRICAN PIDL.ATELIST.
NOTES ON
NEW ISSUES AND VARIETIES
The Editor particularly wishes to obtain the earliest information of New ,Issues, etc. _Kindly refer to Publishers' Notices elsewhere.
UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA.
1d. Pcstage-Minor Variety
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A correspondent writes:.-" "With reference to the 2d. with ctot in front of "2" mentioned in the November "S . .A.P.," I have discovered something .similar in the ld. on the 6th stamp, 3rd row, lower left pane of plate number 6. There is a white dot over the "u" in "Zuid." I thought this might perhapi, be of interest to Union specialists, so have much pleasure in bringing it to your notice."
Inverted Watermarks.
At a reuent meeting of the East Rand Society, Mr. Randell exhibited a:
-corner block of the l½d. Postage, from plate 2, with watermark inverted.
Plates 1 ancl 2 are both particularly scarce with inverted watermark.
Mr. J. P. Shingler, Cambridge, C.P., reports that he ha-s obtained half a sheet, being the upper and lower right hand panes of the 3d. blue with in- verted watermark. ·fhese were obtained at the Cambridge Post Office.
Mr. J. P. Preston has also kindiy informed us that a few copies of the same &tamp with watermark inverted were to be obtained recently at the Post Office, Kingwilliamstown.
Mr. Louis Gillen has kindly shewn us a proof of the ½d. Postage Due, Pretoria, perforated printing. This consists of the design only, perforated, but with no figure of value. ·
RHODESIA.
The New Issue.
"In view of the many conflicting rumours which have appeared in the Phila:telic Press, we are glad to be able to state definitely that there is no intention of issuing overprinted sta:mps, either for Southern or Northern Rhodesia. For the former, an entirely new series i!! in preparation, to be printed by Messrs. Waterlow & Sons, Ltd., -who are responsible for the present Rhodesian stamps, and this will be issued on 1st January next. For Northern Rhodesia there will be another new seriea:, for which the Crown .Agents are ma-king arrangements, which will. appear on 1st .April."
The above paragraph &ppearecl in Messrs. Stanley Gibbons' "Monthly Journal" for November, and we are plea:sed to acknowledge the source of our
information. ·
A New Imperf. variety.
::\Ir. L. H. Rivers, l"rntali, has brought to our notice a variety which is new to us, in the ½d, yellow-green of 1898-1908 (S.G. 75). Our corres- pondent says he ha& just obtained a horizontal strip of three, inperf. between, and mentions they must lurve been cut from a larger strip, since the ends were also imperf.
UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA.
WANTED-Errors, Varieties Early Plate Nos., Inverted '\Vmks., etc., for cash or exchange. Write:-
A.. F. JOHNSTONE,
BOX 6006, JOHANNESBURG.
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SOUTH WEST AFRICA.
Mr. McNeil informs us that he has received the ls. 3d. and 2s. 6d. wit.h type 3 overprint (" Zuidwest " in one word).
The 6d. Postage, type 3, overprint, is reported by Mr. Macmillan . .In the December issue of the "S.A.P.," it was mentioned that Mr.
Preston had 1,hewn us specimens of the ½d. Due, in which the two lines of overprint were not exactly horizontally in line, in one stamp the two lines of overprint each being a:bout one-sixteenth of an inch lower.
Referring to this, Mr. Laurence Hill, Maritzburg, writes:-" I would like to point out tha:t this variety occurs on every sheet practically in the- following position :-top left pane, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th rows, 5th stamp in each row l:Jas the overprint 1 mm. lower than the adjoining stamps. It occurs in both languages alternately, commencing with the English overprint."
Our correspondent also shews us a pair of the ld. from Plate 7, in which the letters " rica " in the word " Africa " hwve dropped. The " Af " are·
in line with the others much lower, ei"ther caused by bad setting, or by the- forms not having been locked tight enough. ·
RHODESIA.
WANTED FOR CASH.-Essays, Proofs, Colour Trials, Imper- forates, "Specimen Sets," Freaks of any kind and Rarities of all is1>ues: Complete Sheets of S.G. Nos. 27, 28, 115, 117, 119 and 123;
Plate Numbers of the. 1896-97 issue; Postally Used Blocks of four above the 6d. value of all issues, and early postmarks on originals.
THE
J. E. M. COCH,
P.O. BOX 1076, JOHANNESBURC.