Philatelic Society for Greater Southern Africa Releases Two New Publications
Two New Publication Free to Download
Bechuanaland and Botswana Registration Labels: An Updated Typology and Listing by Gordon Smith
The Society for Greater Southern Africa (PSGSA) has published an Occasional Electronic Paper by Gordon Smith. It is a detailed study and typology of the registration labels of Botswana. It lists all labels known to exist and present them in a new typological framework. Additional electronic copies can be obtained from the society website http://www.psgsa.org, by writing to the author at gs@postalhistory.ca, or from https://postalhistory.ca/botswana-registration-labels-typology/. The paper can be freely downloaded and printed for personal usage.
The Barred Oval Numerical Cancellers of the Cape of Good Hope From 1863 - 1963, Second Edition by Davis Mordant
An update listing of David Mordant’s 2017 Occasional Society Electronic Paper has been listed on the Society website. The first edition from 2017 included 3,330 recorded dates, the present list includes 5,507 recorded dates - an increase of 65 %. It can like the original version be downloaded for personal usage by going to http://www.psgsa.org.
Both can freely been downloaded and printed for own use.
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I appreciate you adding material here that is free for club members to download. Thank you. I believe that philatelic knowledge should be shared. As a result, the SAPC is free to anyone who visits it. However, this comes at some cost to the founder(s) who have to pay the expenses of running and maintaining it. As a consequence, I am less happy about people using this site as a platform to sell things from. No doubt, I will have to face up to that shortly and place a Donations button on the Home Page, a begging bowl for the techno-age.
As a Cape collector I immediately went to look at the BONC material. It is interesting and useful. Cape collectors (and others) should take advantage of Davis Mordant's generosity in making this available as a free download. Also, Gordon Smith's Bechuanaland and Botswana Registration Labels. These are of less interest to me but no doubt some collectors will have a need for this reference also. I was once accused at the Milinerton car-boot sale of not being a serious collector because I quibbled about paying R100 for a page that had one beautiful cancellation among 20+ Registration labels and scruffy stamps. Apparently, serious collectors were on bidorbuy, not at car-boot sales! I have never collected Registration labels but have nevertheless accumulated some. Maybe I will download Gordon Smith's book!