Pretoria printing using Waterlow London plates.

#1 · April 13, 2021, 6:17 pm

Could anyone kindly advise the exact date of first issue of the 3 values 1/2d, 1d, and 6d. SACC 29P, 29P and 30P. SACC and SG list only simply 1927?

Thank you.

Kloof.

#2 · April 14, 2021, 11:34 am

As you say, UHB and its precursors just say "1927", as does Simenhoff and Basden. I have an earlier catalogue: "The postage stamps of the Union of South Africa", published by the Philatelic Society of Natal ca. 1937, which says the first Pretoria printings of the ½d, 1d and 6d were made in January 1927, but I don't know whether this is reliable.

#3 · April 16, 2021, 6:48 pm

Many thanks Baz - it is a starting point. I thought from the start that if SACC, Hagger, and SG did not give a specific date, then the date (s) may never have been archived, or the records lost.