Union of South Africa & South Africa
Doug, I am now able to tell you that your 1/2d JIPEX sheetlet is No. 6 of 10 and the 1d is No. 16 of 21. So, if this were to become your collecting field you still have some way to go. However, these JIPEX Miniature shets are not difficult to accumulate. Apparently the 1d No. 7 is the difficult one.
This breakthrough is due to the generosity of a SAPC member who has provided a full listing of these different JIPEX panes. I will soon post it on the SAPC site under a new heading, hopefully as a display in its own right. In future, all visitors will be able to determine what Panes they have. Great! Many thanks to Bas for making this possible.
Thanks Steve & Bas. Most interesting. Regards, Doug
I am resurrecting this post because it was interesting for me to write. Much water has flowed under bridge since Doug / 'Colonial' posted his father's stamp collection to kick-start this discussion. If I didn't say so, his Dad's pages contained some nice stuff. I have recently started to sell some of my excess material, particularly stamps which I no longer collect, having totally transitioned to postal history (covers) and postcards. My only reason for contuing to collect stamps are their postmarks. I am now selling my mint material which I think it is overrated, overpriced and lacking in any inherent value or compelling interest to kids in the modern world.
So, below is a sheet of used Kings Heads blocks that I recently sold on eBay for £19.62, a bargain, I think!
This included the nice MARKET STREET postmark cancelled '30 NOV 20' on a 1920 1/3d violet Kings Head (so early use) which I now regret parting with as I collect postcards of the Market Square / Street / GPO. And, to show you some of the reasons why postal history is so interesting, collectible and sometimes controversial is a more modern cover showing two 4th Definitives 1982 RSA 5c coil stamps celebrating SA Architecture, in this case Johannesburg GPO, (Market Street), cancelled HOUGHTON '18 IV 83' with a special handstamp tying a pro-Israeli propaganda label to a pre-printed '35th Anniversary of the State of Israel Stamp Exhibition April 1983' cover. Such an exhibition would never be allowed in today's democratic, anti-Israeli, paid-for by the Islamic Republic of Iran South Africa. If this cover gets up your Palestinian goat's nose, there's no place for you collecting postal history! (The clue is in the name!)
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