Stellenbosch Filatelistevereniging Stellenbosch Philatelic Society Champagnestraat/Street 18 Proteahoogte/Heights Brackenfell 7560 Tel. : 021-981-4036 Faks/fax. : 086-672-1625 E-pos/mail : robharm@mweb.co.za Jaargang/Volume: 35 No/Nr: 2 Klubaand : 1ste Dins van mnd om 19:00 Club night: 1st Tues of month at 19:00

Venue: Le Donjon, La Societé, La Clemence, Webersvallei Road, Stellenbosch

NUUSBRIEF OKTOBER 2013

VORIGE BYEENKOMS 3 SEPTEMBER Hierdie byeenkoms is gewy aan die jaarlikse InterKlub tussen die klubs van Bellville, Paarl en Stellenbosch. Hierdie jaar het ons klub as gasheer vir die InterKlub opgetree. Werksaamhede het reeds om 17:00 begin met die opstel van die rame. Vir die doel het die Bestuur van La Clemence die sitkamer in die kompleks vir ons funksie ontruim, wat voldoende plek vir die rame geskep het. Ons normale bymekaarkomplek het die onthaal area geword. Nadat die rame opgerig is, is die uitstallings gemonteer en teen 18:20 kon die beoordelaars hulle werk doen. Ons Voorsitter het kort na 19:00 almal teenwoordig welkom geheet, met ʼn spesiale woord aan die Federasie se Vise-President Martin Crawford en sy vrou Marilyn, en die voorsitters van die ander klubs, Riaan Crafford (Paarl) en Wobbe Vegter (Bellville). Ons lede Henk Geertsema, Wilhelm Verwoerd, Thys Malan, Hugh Mulder, Gunter Wossler, Siv Borgin, Laurette van Tonder, David Wolpe, Ida Potgieter, Dennis Horn, Pieter Maritz, Peter Jolie, Tewis Britz, Anton Putter, Niel Matthee en Robert Harm is daar asook ʼn verder 5 lede van die Paarl en 5 van Bellville. Hy verwelkom ook ons gaste Herma Horn, Lydia Smith en Guy Morris. Verskoning word aangeteken vir Kallie Buys, André Oosthuizen, Emil Bührmann en Ds Scheepers. Lede Hugh Mulder (3 Sep) en Wilhelm Verwoerd (hy word 84 op 5 Sep) word gelukgewense met hulle verjaardae. Die Voorsitter gaan voort om ʼn aantal mense en instansies te bedank. Eerstens sê hy dankie aan die Bestuur van La Clemence, wat uit hulle pad gegaan het om ons klub by te staan om hierdie funksie aan te bied. Hy6 bedank ook Lydia Smith, wat die spyseniering vir die funksie gedoen het. Soos altyd was dit weer baie lekker. Hy sê ook dankie aan al die lede, wat reeds vroeg teenwoordig was om met die opstelling en montering te help, en aan almal wat gehelp het om seker te maak dat die beoordelaars vroegtydig kan begin beoordeel. Hy rig ook ʼn spesiale woord van dank aan Reanie de Villiers van Bellville klub, wat die resultate op haar skootrekenaar verwerk het. Hy herinner weer die lede aan Nasionale Seëldag waar ons klub dit by die poskantoor Soneike vier. Geen klubsake word bespreek nie.

Die Voorsitter verdaag die vergadering vir verversings, met dank aan Lydia. Dit skep ook die geleentheid vir Reanie om haar verwerkings te doen.

The main item of the evening sre the various exhibits. The clubs entered the following exhibits: Bellville -Riaaneke Loo - Ek is -Thematic one-frame

-Wobbe Vegter -I, Robot -Thematic two-frame -Tony Olckers -Belgian Congo -Classic three-frame

Paarl -Gawie Hugo -Water, maak elke druppel tel -Thematic one-frame -Gawie Hugo -Wat moet ons versamel in 2011 -Thematics teo-frame -Buks Venter -Airmail History of Belgian Congo -Classic three-frame

Stellenbosch -Günter Wossler -Olympic Games: host cities -Thematics one-frame Siv Borgin -Forestry and wood derivatives -Thematics two-frame David Wolpe -History of design of stamps -Classic three-frame

The exhibits were judged in two different ways. Each club provided a main juror, forming a team of three jurors. The appointed judges were Wobbe Vegter (Bellville), David de Klerk (Paarl) and Henk Geertsema (Stellenbosch).This team was supplemented by a team of jurors of each club, in an attempt to get more members involved in judging exhibits. The three teams were Reanie de Villiers, Diederik Viljoen and Neville Smith (Bellville), Gawie Hugo, Buks Venter and Wilfred Niehaus (Paarl) and Dennis Horn, Pieter Maritz and Thys Malan (Stellenbosch). All the jurors were prevented from judging their own club’s exhibit to ensure a measure of fairness. After all the results were submitted and the figures crunched (all the results from the variouis jurors were taken into account), Bellville became the proud holder of the Theo Beukes Trophy for 2013/14 with 62.75 points, followed by Paarl (57 points) and Stellenbosch (52.67 points). The individual results showed that Wobbe Vegter with 68.08 points was the individual winner, followed by Buks Venter with 65.58 points and Tony Olckers with 65.50 points. The Chairmen congratulated the winning club and the winning individual, but expressed his support for each and every participating exhibitor and juror. The InterKlub continues to get most of the members involved. That has been one of the objectives from the very beginning, where the competition has just celebrated its 6th anniversary. Hierna het al die teenwoordiges hulle verlustig aan die eetgoed en ‘n glasie wyn, en word daar heerlik gekuier tussen die lede van die drie klubs. Dit is uiteindelik die hoofdoel van hierdie jaarlikse kompetisie. Almal keer uiteindelik huiswaarts teen 20:45. TOE BARS DIE BORREL Het u al ooit gewonder waarom Filateliedienste in die jare 1975-1985 skaars kon voorbly om in die reuse aanvraag na Suid-Afrikaanse seëls en eerstedagkoeverte (veral dié van die bantoe-tuislande) te voorsien? Vandag is hulle niks werd nie. Die gerespekteerde joernalis Gideon Joubert skryf op 18 Februarie 1982 in die beleggingsbylae van Die Burger : “Een van die beste versamelitems waarin ʼn mens die afgelope jaar of vyf kon belê het, is die seëls van die nuwe onafhanklike state. Dit is nog so.” Hy noem ʼn paar voorbeelde: “As ʼn mens ʼn bietjie meer as twee jaar gelede hoekblokke van die vier onafhanklikheidseëls van Venda gekoop het, sou dit jou R3.20 gekos het. Twee weke gelede is twee stelle in Kaapstad verkoop, die een teen R47 en die ander teen R50. Verlede week het net een handelaar ʼn stel gehad. Die prys was R63. Dit is ʼn toename van sowat 1900 persent, of omtrent 950 persent per jaar!” Joubert se informant was mnr. Sam Heunis, bekende Kaapse seëlhandelaar van destyds, goed bekend aan ons ouer lede, want hy het op Stellenbosch gewoon. Volgens hom was ʼn versamelaarskaart met die eerste druk van die tweede reeks van Transkeise kunsvlieë in 1981 vir R4 te koop, en ʼn jaar later het dit teen R850 verhandel! (Sulke pryse is egter nie in katalogusse opgeneem nie.) Geen wonder dat ʼn ieder en ʼn elk begin seëls koop het nie. Dit was ʼn finansiële borrel wat moes bars. Hierdie sober gedeelte is ingestuur deur Wilhelm Verwoerd. FACTS AND FEATS: THE POSTAL SERVICES The earliest posting-boxes were the tambouri of Florence, established in the early years of the 16th century. These were closed wooden boxes with an aperture at the top, and were installed in the main churches so that anonymous letters of denunciation against wrong-doers and suspected enemies of the state could be “posted”. The first orthodox system of roadside posting-boxes was established in Paris in 1653 By Renouard de Villayer, master of the Petite Poste, to facilitate the interchange of correspondence in the French metropolis. Therse boxes were erected at the intersections of the main thoroughfares and were emptied thrice daily. Due vandalism and other anti-social behaviour this service was short-lived. They were re-introduced in about 1800 in both France and Prussia, and to Belgium in 1836. They did not appear in the British Isles until 1852. The first pillar-boxes in the British Isles were erected on 23 Nov 1852 in St Helier, Jersey. They were constructed by a local blacksmith, John Vaudin, and cast at Le Feuvre’s Foundry, St Helier. The introduction of these boxes is credited to Anthony Trollope, a novelist but acting as postal inspector for the Post Office, who had seen posting-boxes in France and recommended their use in Britain. The success of the experiment in the Channel Islands led to the introduction on the mainland. The oldest pillar-boxes still in use are those at Hauteville and Union Street, St Peter Port, Guernsey. Six pillar-boxes were erected in and around St Peter Port on 8 Feb 1853 as part of Trollope’s experiment. Although there has been controversy surrounding this record, Mrs Jean Farrugia, archivist of the British Post Office and a recognised authority on posting-boxes, has proved conclusively that the boxes at Hautville and Union Street were never replaced. In design and construction they certainly conform to Vaudin’s prototypes. The Guernsey Postal Administration recognised this fact by depicting the Union Street box on a postage stamp of 1979. The oldest pillar-box on the British mainland, still in use, is at Barnes Cross, Holwell, Bishop’s Caundle, Dorset, and dates from 1853.

The first wall-boxes were made by Smith and Hunter from Birmingham in 1857-8. Only one of the original batch is still in use at The Mall, Newport, Isle of Wright. Posting-boxes on public vehicles are believed to have been first used on tramcars in New York City in 1886. The practice spread to Paris in 1891 and was adopted in Britain in 1893. The tramcars of Huddersfield were equipoped with posting-boxes for the first time on 20 Mar 1893, from where it spread to other areas in Britain. Most of these services were suspended during WW1 and the last services were withdrawn in Sep 1939. The practice was re-introduced on the seafront tramcars in Blackpool in Sep 1981, and a special postmark was provided to denote such posting. Facts and feats come from: Mackay, James, The Guinness book of Stamps, Guinness Publishing Ltd, Enfield, 1988 UITVINDING VAN WATERVASTE MASKARA

Die uitvinding is toegeskryf aan die Oostenrykse opera sangeres Helene Winterstein Kambersky. Sy het geleef van 1900 tot 1966, en is op 11 Jun 1935 ʼn patent vir watervaste maskara toegeken. Sy het dit opgevolg met die stigting van die kosmetiek maatskappy La Belle Nussy in 1936. Gedurende haar vele verhoog optredes het sy agter gekom dat die warm ligte haar maskara gereeld laat loop het, wat swart merke onder haar oë gelaat het. Dit het haar genoop om werk aan die “perfekte” maskara in haar eie kombuis te begin. Na 2000 mislukte pogings het sy uiteindelik daarin geslaag om watervaste maskara te skep. Dit was ook die begin van ʼn nuwe era vir kosmetiek vir die oë. Sy het egter ernstig siek geword, wat haar in ʼn rolstoel gedwing het. Sy moes ophou sing, maar haar vindingrykheid en moed het haar ʼn tweede loopbaan as ʼn uiters geslaagde sakevrou gegee. Die seël is op 13 Sep 2013 deur Austria Post uitgegee, en is die tweede seël in die reeks wat Oostenrykse uitvinders vereer. Die seël toon Helene Winterstein Kambersky, twee buisies

maskara en ‘n maskara borseltjie. Een van die buisies toon die maatskappy se naam en die tweede buisie wys haar handtekening. Die seël is ontwerp deur David Gruber en is deur die Austrian Government Printing Office deur die litografiese proses in velletjies van 10 gedruk. Die La Belle Nussy naam verskyn onder die middelste seël op die seëlrand, gevolg deur die motto “Handmade since 1936”. Linn’s Stamp Newsletter 57 5 Sep 2013 NEWSPAPER STAMPS (continued from Sep 2013 Vol 35 No 1). Hungary’s first newspaper stamp was issued in. This stamp can be decidedly tricky to identify because there is no written indication of country, purpose or denomination. The vignette design offers the only clue to where the stamp might have originated, depicting the St. Stephen’s crown and a post horn. These emblems appear on many early Hungarian stamps, as well as on watermarks found in the paper upon which some

Hungarian stamps were printed. The Scott standard catalogue lists the stamp as a 1-kreuzer stamp, but there is no way of knowing that by just observing the stamp. Only in 1900 did Hungary issue newspaper stamps that fully disclosed their purpose. Each stamp bears an inscription at the top identifying the country (Magyar Kir Posta for Hungary Royal Post). Hirlapyegi (meaning newspaper) is inscribed at the bottom. No denomination is, however, shown. The Scott catalogue lists the denomination as 10-filler. The US has probably created some of the most beautiful newspaper stamps. They were first issued in 1865, and can today be regarded as

expensive and difficult to find. The first US newspaper stamps were used on bulk shipments of periodicals and newspapers rather than for individual pieces. Shown is a 25c

newspaper stamp of 1865, beautifully printed and embossed, as one would find on postal stationary at the time. (Scott Catalogue prices at $400 mint and $2500 used). From 1881 the size of these stamps were smaller-sized. They were made to be used in post office receipt books to indicate payment had been made for shipments of newspapers/periodicals. Shown is a stamp depicting an Indian maiden with denomination of $100, and issued in 1895. Although smaller, these stamps are still beautifully engraved. Fortunately they also are lighter on the pocket for collectors of

these stamps, although this stamp without watermark still demands a price of $2500 in used form, or $240 for the item with watermark in used form. Many countries have issued newspaper stamps, and adding some to your collection may remind you of how important newspapers were, and still are to at least 11% of Americans. Linn’s Stamp News of 26 Aug 2013 The first two philatelic terms below needed to be published. Private control came to the fore at the recent quiz at the Royal, while Posted out of Cause was used by Hugh Amoore in his Postage Due collection. Geskryf deur Robert Harm 25 Augustus 2013 CLUB PROGRAMMES Bellville Philatelic Society, at the Bellville Public Library at 19:00 on 2nd Wednesday of the month.

9 Oct 2013 All members’ night; Open Class Trial; Quiz; One page on Balloons. 13 Nov 2013 Open Auction. 4 Dec 2013 President’s evening for members only.

Fish Hoek Philatelic Society, at Minor Hall, Fish Hoek Civic Centre at 19:30 om 1st Tuesday of the month. 1 Oct 2013 Postal History Evening; Ladies night. 5 Nov 2013 Volker Janssen shows King Edward VIII. 3 Dec 2013 President’s evening and Christmas celebration.

Paarl Filateliste, at the St Petri Lutheran Church Hall, Mill Street at 19:30 2nd Thursday of the month. 10 Oct 2013 Kaufman Cup. (this meeting will be held in Worcester). 9 Nov 2013 Meeting combines with Stamp Fair. 12 Dec 2013 Annual auction.

Pinelands Stamp Circle, at Pinelands Library at 19:00 on last Wednesday of the month. 30 Oct 2013 Short Bourse; One page World of literature and Sea horses; AGM. 27 Nov 2013 Auction; One page Britain’s Off-shore Islands and Tap. 29 Jan 2014 New acquisitions and favourites; One page Swa/Namibia history and QEII.

Royal Philatelic Society of Cape Town, at Atinaneum on 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month. 14 Oct 2013 John Carter’s evening. 28 Oct 2013 Society auction. 11 Nov 2013 Award winning exhibits of Jomapex. 25 Nov 2013 Brian Fenemore – Postal History Botswana; Malcolm Suttill – Bechuanaland. 9 Dec 2013 President’s evening.

Stellenbosch Philatelic Society, at La Clemence, Webersvallei Rd, Stellenbosch at 19:00 on 1st Tuesday of month. 1 Oct 2013 Laurette van Tonder’s evening; Alphabet S. 5 Nov 2013 Invite top Western Cape exhibitor at Nationals; Alphabet T. 3 Dec 2013 End of year function.

Walker Bay Stamp Club, at the Hermanus Bowling Club at 17:30 on 1st Monday of month. 7 Oct 2013 4 Nov 2013 2 Dec 2013

Thematics SA (Western Cape Chapter), at the Bellville Public Library at 14:00 16 Nov 2013 Discussions and advice on thematic collecting and exhibits.

STAMP FAIRS Durbanville,at Durbanville Library Hall, c/o Oxford Street and Koeberg Road at 09:00 until 12:30.

5 Oct 2013 2 Nov 2013 7 Dec 2013 The fourth quarterly auction will be held.

PHILATELIC TERMS : Q/R Bibliography: McKay, James, Philatelic Terms Illustrated, Stanley Gibbons Publications, Ringwood, 2003. Nováček, Jiři, Guide to Stamp Collecting, Chartwell Books Inc, New Jersey, 1989. Smith, Anna H. (Ed), The language of stamp collecting, Johannesburg Public Library, 1959. Wood, Kenneth A. (Ed), This is Philately, Van Dahl Publications, Albany, 1982 Posted out of cause (and sometimes simply: POOC) This is the term used to indicate that a postal item has entered the postal system in an unauthorised manner. This is usually the case where a registered item (ie an item marked "registered" by the sender or "blue lined " by the sender) is is posted (or reposted) in a letter box, but without handing the item over the counter at the post office. If an item is compulsorily registered whether or not it has been prepaid at the registration rate, it may also be marked out of course. Less frequently the ter is applied to an item marked for express delivery posted in a letter box and not handed over the counter. It is worth noting that when a registered item is reposted the registration fee but not the postage) is repayable. Private controls The item refers to inscriptions overprinted or under-printed on stamps used by firms, institutions and organisations to prevent pilferage or improper use by their staff. It is a similar indication as companies have used in Perfins Quadrille (kadriel) The term quadrille refers to the grid of small squares faintly printed on otherwise blank album pages. In top-quality pages, the quadrille will be clear and distinct, but very faint so as not to detract from the appearance of material mounted on the page. The purpose of the quadrille grid is to act as a mounting guide, and the center points at top, bottom and sides, as well as the center of the page, are usually emphasised. Quadrille paper (kadrielpapier)

The term is used to refer to a type of paper into which is incorporated a pseudo-watermark in the form of a grid of squares. A rectangular pattern is described as oblong quadrille, and some stamps, although described as being on quadrille paper, merely have a protective coating in such a pattern, called surface quadrille. These squares are usually visible without holding the paper to the light. Quadrille paper is in fact batonne paper with the lines at right angles and about 3 mm apart. Shown is a

stamp from Obock. Quartz lamp (kwarts lamp) This is an electric lamp incorporating a filament in transparent fused quartz, emitting and passing the maximum of ultraviolet rays. When these strike certain surfaces, they cause fluorescence. It is an invaluable tool of the philatelist in examining stamps for any kind of repair or tampering which would result in a fake. It is also extremely useful in identifying aniline inks and the different kinds of coating found in many modern stamps. Quickstamp Quickstamp is a term used by Australia Post to describe stamps dispensed by automatic teller machines since 1994. Railway air services (spoorweg lugposdiens)

The term refers to airmail service operated by and on behalf of railway companies. The Great Western Railway (1933) issued its own stamps for this purpose (shown left). In 1934 the four major railway companies of the UK formed the Railway Air Service and organised an airmail network throughout the country. No stamps were issued, but distinctive handstamps and souvenir first flight covers are known.

Railway Company Stamps These are local or semi-official stamps issued by railway companies in many countries, mainly (but not exclusively) to denote fees payable in respect of parcels. The earliest such stamps were issued in England in 1846, to be used

for parcels. Between 1891 and 1922 many British companies issued stamps to cover a special railway letter fee. In Belgium and France, however, parcel stamps have been issued by the postal administrations on behalf of the state railways. Shown right is a railway company stamp of Bavaria, as denoted by the overprint E (Eisenbahn). Since 1929 Belgium has also issued special stamps for use on railway official correspondence, depicting a winged wheel emblem or B in an oval frame, overprinted or incorporated in the design. Railway Mail Service (spoorwegposdiens)

As soon as rail services spread throughout countries, it became obvious that they could be used to carry mail. The first carriage of mail occurred as early as 1830 on Britain’s Manchester and Liverpool Railway. The 150th anniversary was celebrated by the above stamp issue by Royal Mail in 1980. In 1937, also in Britain, the first travelling post office started operating between Liverpool and Birmingham, allowing mail to be sorted en route. This service was improved by devising systems to pick up and drop the mail without stopping. France started a similar service by attaching railway post offices to express trains from early 1850’s. Sorting mail on a train in motion in the US is recorded from 1862. In the US, with their vast distances, the railway became the normal method of carrying mail over long distances. After WW2 this service started declining in favour of Highway Post Offices. The markings of Railway Post Offices were also used on board ships plying the internal waterways and on the run to Alaska. Railway parcel stamps (spoor pakketseëls)

These are stamps issued by railway companies to prepay the freight charges on parcels. This process was permitted as they did not infringe the Postmaster-General’s monopoly. The first stamps for this purpose were issued in 1846 by the London and North Western Railway, followed by more than 100 other companies in Britain alone. Initially these stamps were beautifully engraved, but from 1924 they became more utilitarian in style. These stamps were issued by many other countries, but the issues of

Denmark, New Zealand and the Australian states are the most notable. Note the B in the oval frame on the parcel stamp from Belgium depicted. Railway stamp (spoorseël) The railway stamp is a postage stamp issued by a governmental postal service specifically for letters and parcels handled by the state railways. Such stamps were issued by Belgium, Bavaria, Bulgaria and France. Reader’s Digest coils (Reader’s Digest rolseëls)

Multi-value strips of stamps produced by the British Post Office on behalf of Reader’s Digest and issued since Sep 1981 to facilitate reply postage. These coil strips subsequently became available from the British Philatelic Bureau, but specialists prefer to collect them with the appropriate mail-order cards. Since 1993 similar multi-value strips have been issued in South Africa, with the Reader’s Digest logo on an adjoining label. Rebate stamps (afslagseëls)

These stamps were first issued in Sweden on 1979. They were at first inscribed Inrikes Post, but from 1981 they were inscribed Privatpost. The stamps had initially no face value, but later carried a face value. The stamps represented a rebate of 30 øre on the 1k30 postal rate. They had no invalidation date, and were sold in booklets of 20 in exchange of tokens distributed to all household. Drawn up by Robert Harm 21 September 2013