The Springbok    
 

Welcome to the website of the South Africa Collector’s Society.  Our society is concerned with the philately of South Africa including both the 1910-61 Union Period and the Republic period from 1961 onwards.  We are also interested in the philately of South West Africa and Namibia.

Our society is very active with regular meetings in London, Carlisle as well as other venues around the country.  2010 saw the 100th Anniversary of the formation of the Union of South Africa.  The society celebrated this event by exhibiting at Spring Stampex held in London, showing a wide range of philatelic material in over 140 exhibition frames.

The Springbok is the publication of the society and is produced four times a year.

Once a year our society takes part in the Southern Africa Societies Conference in Leamington Spa, in November, usually the following weekend after the Philatex show.  The members bring many interesting displays, shown on the Saturday and Sunday, there are also some dealers in attendance.  It is always a very pleasant and relaxed way to spend a weekend.

2012 will be the tenth anniversary of the Conference, details of the displays will be made known nearer the time. In 2011 we saw the following:

South Africa - Colonial and Union King's Heads Booklets
South West Africa Revenues
Transvaal 1896-1910
The Railway Pioneer Corps and Imperial Military Railways
South Africa Unhyphenated Pictorials
Orange Free State Postal Stationery

If you are interested in joining our society then please contact the membership secretary Chris Oliver:
olivers.of_ham@virgin.net

Our events for the 2012 calendar are:

31st March: Carlisle

21st April: London, Republic 1st Definitives

28th April: West Country, (The Scout Hut, Harnham, 11am start)

26th May: London, Revenues

7th July: Letchworth

15th September: London, Airmails

29th September: Carlisle

9th to 11th November Leamington Spa, Southern Africa Societies Convention



   
 
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