Stamp Stories

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22895, 16 December 1939, Page 3 (Supplement)

Stamp Stories

South Australia: Stamps were first issued for the colony of South Australia in 1855, and with the ex-

ception of one set, all the issues included in the designs a sidefaced portrait of Queen Victoria. The first .‘isue, which consisted of three values, was printed by Messrs Perkins Bacon and Co., and the same inks were used for these stamps as for the first issue of New Zealand. As the South Australian stamps were sold in relatively large quantities, and are therefore not difficult to acquire, they are particularly useful to New Zealand specialists as providing guides to the colours of the much rarer New Zealand ‘stamps of the first issue.. Separate issues for South Australia were withdrawn upon the appearance of the issue for the Commonwealth of Australia in January, 1930. The centenary of the proclamation of South Australia as a British colony was commemorated by the issue by the Commonwealth in August, 1936, of a £|et of three stamps. South Bulgaria: In 1885, as a result of a revolution, the former Turkish province of Eastern Roumelia was renamed South Bulgaria, and a year later the territory had been incorporated as part of Bulgaria." Stamps of Eastern Roumelia overprinted with the Bulgarian lion were issued from 1885 to 1886 for use in South Bulgaria. South Georgia; This island in the South Atlantic ocean is a dependency of the Falkland Islands and stamps of the main group have been in use since December, 1909. In 1915, certain of the Falkland Island stamps appeared with a handstamped overprint of the name “South Georgia,” but inquiries showed that this inscription was intended to be placed on the envelope and that its appearance on the stamps was merely due to Carelessness. South Hatliuania: In 1919 Russian troops temporarily occupied part of Lithuania, and in March Russian stamps were issued at the town of Grodno with an overprint in Russian characters meaning “South Lithuania,” and with new values. The district of South Lithuania was later incorporated in Poland. South Russia: Following the Russian revolution and the ascendancy of the Bolshevik party various independent governments were established for short periods in the south of Russia. Four of the governments issued special stamps. Contemporary issues of Russia were surcharged with new values at Ekaterinodar and issued by the Kuban Government. Surcharged issues as well as a currency stamp in a definitive type were issued at Novbcherkask, Rostov, and Taganrog by the Don Cossack Government General Denikin’s volunteer

A PHILATELIC ENCYCLOPAEDIA—(Part 60) (By R. J. G. Collins)

army, with headquarters at Ekaterinodar in the Kuban Republic, issued a set of stamps inscribed “United Russia.” Overprinted stamps, together with currency stamps were issued by the govern-

ment established by the Volunteer Army in the Crimea. The inscription on the currency stamp meant “Crimean Border Government.” Southern Nigeria: The southern portion of the present British colony of Nigeria in west Africa was constituted as the Oil Rivers

Protectorate in 1885, and in 1893 was renamed the Niger Coast Protectorate. A third alteration in the title resulted in the issue of stamps in 1901 inscribed “Southern Nigeria” and separate issues for the territory were in use until 1914, when Southern and Northern Nigeria were united. Southern Rhodesia: In 1923 the southern portion of Rhodesia, comprising Matabeleland and Mashona-

land, was constituted a self-govern-ing British colony, and in 1924, stamps with the full-faced portrait of King George V were issued, ■superseding the general issue for Rhodesia. y (To be continued.)

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