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2025
Adel’s first week back in South Africa after her extended UK trip covered the well-attended Paarl Nationals at the Boschenmeer Golf Estate and Jim Findlay RDPSA’s Zoom presentation on the ‘1914 South African Rebellion’ which I was lucky to sit in on and learn from. John Handman is now the new Chairman of the PFSA, (the Philatelic Federation of SA). Richard Stroud RDPSA submits interesting postal history material on ‘the situation in Paardeberg’ and General Piet Cronje’s surrender; Hugh Amoore describes the rules on redirected mail in the Cape Colony; Jamie Smith requests your help on a cover possibly from Sir Rudolph van Slatin, Inspector General of the Sudan. And more… Like Adel’s philatelic accessories, her souvenir card with silver leaves from the 1947 Royal Tour, plus her useful advice on Ethiopia fake overprints.
1900. Letter from House of Parliament to Wimbledon announcing the surrender of General Cronje at Paardeberg.
(ex. Richard Stroud RDPSA.)
Adel’s enthusiasm for stamping in the UK is profound. She writes “My UK trip has come to an end. I want to thank everyone who shared a meal or a cuppa with me. The best part were the collections that I got to see, so many of you opened your homes to me and shared your most prized collections. I am in awe of you guys, and I am inspired to get myself into gear and improve my own collection. A special thanks to Jamie and Nomvula for hosting me and all your love and support, I am truly grateful for the opportunity”. This month she had Ian Matheson showing the ‘Cayes of Belize and Penalty Stamps’, Richard Stroud contributing ‘Basutoland via Aliwal North’ while on her desk she had ‘Native Tax – Durban’ and a Stockport Railways Parcel Stamp. Jamie must be envious! There’s a nice photo below of Jamie browsing boxes at the Stockport Stamp Fair.
Jamie Smith, South African Philately Club co-founder, browsing boxes of postal history at Stockport Fair.
Adel writes “The excitement of Wimbledon and the Tour De France is now behind us. I attended a few more fairs and the next stamp event in the UK is Stampex towards the end of October. The hospitality I’ve received here is unmatched – I must however complain about the summer sun being half strength, the table salt isn’t as salty as back home and the long-life milk here is so watered down compared to what I am used to. But my philatelic experiences here have been fantastic!” There is a wide range of items, only a few are South African, There are reports on Midpex (Coventry) and York, a Reader Submission by Richard Stroud RDPSA of a three-country multiple franking (below) and ‘Mails under London’ showing the underground mail system. Amd much more….
A Reader Submission from Richard Stroud RDPSA, a notable Anglo-Boer War Postal History authority.
Starting with the Philatelic Calendar, Adel covers the Altrincham Fair and Swinpex 2025. There is a Reader Requests from Siegfried Mayr who collects the Voortrekker Centenary Trek of 1938 and a report on the Zoom meetings that she co-ordinates, the most outstanding of which includes a link to John Handman’s thought-provoking “Edwardian Postcards Patronising the Zulus of Natal’. A cover from Jamie Smith (nice photo of him!) was written by Colonel H Brackenbury during the Gordon Relief Expedition. Well worth a look. A very useful way of Staying in Touch!
Includes a quick look at EuroPhilex from a SA POV and photos of some of the usual suspects who attended it! Also features Jamie Smith showing Iraq Part 1, Adel’s items of interest – Mauritius Postal Stationery and East African QSL cards. Richard Stroud of the Orange Free State Study Circle provides an early OFS item that involves two reverend gentlemen, the well-known Dominees Hofmeyr and Louw. There was also a photo of the first Sydney, Australia, post office and a Book Review ‘The South West Africa Official Stamps- 1926 to 1955’ by Danie van Zyl.
Another Reader Submission from Richard Stroud RDPSA, this one on Cape Postal History.
This newsletter has something for evereyone. Jamie Smith showing Nyasaland Revenues. Hugh Amoore showing selected items from his
‘Universities of the World’ exhibit. From Adel’s Desk came Clergy Material and a peculiar items of interest, a 1936 purse calendar. Margaret Emerson gave a brilliant display about the Uniform postage rates in Edinburgh.
Adele is fan of Zoom. Thery are the glue that holds the fabric of her philatelic world together. Her newsletters will advice your of past Zoom meeting and ones to come. So, get on her mailing list! Daphne McMillan showed Illustrated Airgraphs from WWII and Daphne McMillan showing ‘Illustrated Airgraphs from WWII’ and Jamie Smith showed a well-illustrated and intricate story of German involvement in the Middle East during WWI. Adel ‘RememberedHarvey Pirie’, the renowned South African philatelist and best of all she reminded me of my childhood with the ‘Smuts Dedication’ below.
I was delighted to see this. I grew up with it in our house. My mother and ouma were great ‘sappe’ (Smuts / SA Party supporters),