Natal & Zululand Study Circle

Cape and Natal Study Circle
(formerly Natal & Zululand Study Circle)

The Natal & Zululand Study Circle was established on 21st October 1996 at a meeting on the premises of the Royal Philatelic Society, London at 41 Devonshire Place, London W1. The society was formed to encourage the study of the postal history, postage stamps, revenue stamps and postal stationery of Natal and Zululand during the colonial period and the inter-provincial period which followed.

In January 2006 a referendum of members decided that in future the society should be known as the Cape & Natal Study Circle and this is now the case. The objects of the society have been extended to cover the Cape of Good Hope, Griqualand West, British Kaffraria and the Transkeian territories in addition to Natal and Zululand. From 2007 the journal will be published under the title of Cape & Natal Philatelic Journal.

Committee

Committee

The committee of the Society is as follows:

	Ian Shapiro	Hon. Chairman
	Jay Walmsley	Hon. Treasurer
	John Dickson	Hon. Secretary
	Dr Alan Drysdall Robert Johnson	Hon. Editor Associate Editor (Cape)
	Martin Eichele
	Richard Stroud

Local representatives of the Society have been appointed as follows:

	Roger Porter	South Africa
	Dr. Guy Dillaway	North America

The Hon. Auditor is Keith Hanman

Membership

Membership of the Society is on a calendar year basis. The current membership subscription for UK members paying in Sterling is £10 p.a. For persons residing outside the UK but paying in sterling the rate is £12.50 by sea or £17.50 by air.

Persons paying in sterling should remit to the Hon. Secretary, but South African and U.S. members have the option of making payment in local currency to their local representative.

South African subscribers paying R135 p.a., will receive the journal by sea; R180 p.a. if by air.

North American subscribers may pay US$21 p.a. by sea; US$28 p.a. if by air.

European members may pay in Sterling or Euro notes at the rate of £12.50 or E17.50 p.a.

Members may pay two years subscription at one time.

The Hon. Secretary, John Dickson, may be contacted at:

Telephone:	UK (0)1460 241534
Fax:	UK (0)1460 240028
E:mail	johndickson@nzsc.demon.co.uk
or by post at:	Lismore House Shepton Beauchamp ILMINSTER Somerset TA19 0LJ United Kingdom

Subscriptions

Persons wishing to become members of the society should provide their full name and postal address and the appropriate fee to one of the addresses indicated below:

Payment in Sterling / Euros:

Subscription

£10 with Journal by inland mail to UK addresses.
£12.50 / E17.50 with Journal by surface mail to Europe.
Far East &c £12.50 with Journal by surface mail,

£17.50 airmail.

Cheques made out to

Cape & Natal Study Circle.

Send to:

John Dickson
Lismore House
Shepton Beauchamp
ILMINSTER
Somerset TA19 0LJ
United Kingdom

Payment in Rand:

Subscription

R185 with Journal by surface mail, or R250 by air mail.

Cheques made out to

J. N. Dickson

Send to:

Roger Porter
12 Forest Lane
3245 HILTON
SOUTH AFRICA

South African members should pay only against invoice.

Payment in US $:

Subscription	US$26 with Journal by surface mail, or $35 by air mail.
Checks made out to	Guy Dillaway
Send to:	Dr. Guy Dillaway P O Box 181 WESTON MA02493 USA

Members may purchase copies of earlier issues of the journal on payment of of 80% of the above rates the above rates for each complete year required.

Publications

The study circle has published the following:

Bibliography of the Philately and Postal History of Natal and Zululand – revised enlarged edition.

This is a cd of over 100 "pages" and is available to members and non-members alike on payment of £5 / E8 to addresses in the UK or Europe (orders to John Dickson – see above, cheques payable to the Cape & Natal Study Circle); by surface mail to North America at $12 (orders and payments to Guy Dillaway see above) or to South Africa at R100 payable against invoice (orders to John Dickson - see above) or elsewhere at £6.

Postal Stationery of Natal by John Dickson and Keith Hanman

This is a book of 250 pages and is available to members at £16 plus £5.20 postage (Rand320, $32 by surface mail) or to the public at £29.20 (Rand450, $45) including surface mail.

Collectors' Exhibition Series

This is a series of reproductions in full colour of important exhibition displays of Cape, Natal and Zululand material. The study circle has published the following in this series:

No. 1: Zululand. Clive Sergay's Gold Medal collection.

This book in 80 coloured pages is available to members at £20 (Rand300, $30) plus postage. NOW SOLD OUT

No. 2: Postal History of Natal 1845-1902. Gold Medal exhibit.

President's Grand Prix Award at DURSAPEX 2004.

This compact disk provides a full colour copy of the Gold Medal display.

Available to members at the following prices:

    - In the UK @ £9 by sterling cheque payable to Cape & Natal Study Circle.
    - By air to South Africa @ R130 by Rand cheque payable to "J. N. Dickson".
    - By air to North America @ $22 by U.S. $ check payable to Guy Dillaway.
    - In Europe @ E15 payable in Euro notes.
    - Elsewhere by air @ £12 payable in sterling to Cape & Natal Study Circle.

Members should send payment with order to John Dickson at
Lismore House; Shepton Beauchamp; Ilminster; TA19 0LJ; UK.

Journal Contents Natal & Zululand Post

The first issue of the journal, the Natal & Zululand Post, appeared in March 1997. It is distributed quarterly. The contents of the Natal & Zululand Postfor the 10 years of its publication as follows:

Volume 1, Number 1 (March 1997)

	The embossed revenue stamps of Natal, 1846 to 1868 by John Dickson	1
	The puzzled postmaster and the double deans - a Maritzburg mix-up by Jim Draper	16
	The Wilson Wong Collection of Zululand by Brian Cartwright	19
	Official revenue cancellations by Giovanni Palazzo	22
	Paragraphs on Natal postal history 1 by Jim Draper	23
	The Jeffery K Weiss, FRPSL, Collection by Brian Cartwright	24

Volume 1, Number 2 (June 1997)

	The embossed revenue stamps of Natal, 1846 to 1868; part II Natal embossed stamps from the dies by B. Wyon of London by John Dickson	25
	The Victoria Cross at Hlobane, Zululand, 28th March, 1879 by J.C. Kenworthy	36
	Letters from Hlobane after the battle of the 28th March, 1879 by John Dickson	42
	Postmasters of Natal - Charles John COAKES by John Dickson	48

Volume 1, Number 3 (September 1997)

	The embossed revenue stamps of Natal, 1846 to 1868; part III the additional embossed dies of 1868 by John Dickson	49
	Dates of opening and closing of Natal post offices to 1879 by John Dickson	68
	Zululand postal stationery by Brian Cartwright	73
	The first postal service into Zululand by John Dickson	77

Volume 1, Number 4 (December 1997)

	Embossed 1d rose and 1d buff by Martin Eichele	79
	Natal branch office datestamps and obliterators by John Dickson	84
	Natal postal stationery of the Victorian period; postcards and reply cards by John Dickson	96
	Zululand at Harmers by Brian Cartwright	103

Volume 2, Number 1 (March 1998)

	The General Screw Steam Shipping Company; their mail services to the Cape of Good Hope and to India and Australia by John Dickson	1
	Zululand; the period of transition 1879-1887 by Wilson Wong	14
	Zululand postal stationery by Brian Cartwright	21

Volume 2, Number 2 (June 1998)

	The sea-borne mails of Natal; Part I from the beginning to 1850 by John Dickson	27
	The early boxed handstamps of Natal; boxed 'PAID', 'PREPAID' and 'TO PAY' by Jim Draper	44
	Postmasters of Natal - John Murray AITCHISON by John Dickson	48
	An overview of Zululand philately by Tony Davis	49

Volume 2, Number 3 (September 1998)

	The sea-borne mails of Natal; Part II January 1851 to August 1852 by John Dickson	53
	Dates of issue of the embossed and Perkins Bacon one penny stamps of Natal by John Dickson	75
	Recorded usage of embossed stamps and 'Chalon Heads' 1860 to 1862 by Martin Eichele	85
	Natal branch office obliterators by Roger Porter	89
	Rorke's Drift by Tony Davis	91

Volume 2, Number 4 (December 1998)

	The sea-borne mails of Natal; Part III The coastal service of the General Screw Steam Shipping Company between August 1852 and the end of 1854 by John Dickson	95
	De La Rue's essays for a 1 penny revenue stamp by Alan Drysdall	121
	Nqutu manuscript cancellations by Steve Wallace	123
	The Zululand 5s duty by Tony Davis	124

Volume 3, Number 1 (March 1999)

	The earliest handstamps of the Natal post offices; 1850 to 1854 by John Dickson	1
	The De La Rue 1d of Natal and its overprints by John Dickson	14
	From the diocese of Bloemfontein to that of Zululand; the story of a printing press by Richard Stroud	20
	Overseas mail damaged by water at Durban by John Dickson	22
	The second definitive issue of Zululand by Tony Davis	24
	Natal postal stationery of the Victorian period; postcards and reply-paid cards by John Dickson	29

Volume 3, Number 2 (June 1999)

	Natal mails via Bloemfontein prior to the Boshof reforms of 1855 by John Dickson	31
	Natal mails through Kaffraria up to 1855 by John Dickson	54
	'Current numbers' on Natal Victorian stamps by John Dickson	61
	De La Rue's 'cancelled' sheets by John Dickson	63

Volume 3, Number 3 (September 1999)

	Sea post between Cape Town and the United Kingdom during the period 1854 to 1856 by John Dickson	67
	Natal sea mails 1855 and 1856 by John Dickson	70
	Transvaal-Natal combination covers by Alan Drysdall and Keith Klugman	100

Volume 3, Number 4 (December 1999)

	The Lindsay packet service - 1856 to 1857 by John Dickson	115
	Postscript (to the Lindsay packet service) - a letter by the first sailing of the England by John Dickson	147
	Harmers - 30th November 1999	148
	Natal Postal Notice of the 11th October 1892	149

Volume 4, Number 1 (March 2000)

	A preliminary classification of the Chalon Head stamps of Natal without 'postage' overprint by John Dickson and Jim Lucas	1
	Rennie's steamer service between Cape Town and Natal, 1857 to 1862: Part 1 by John Dickson	7
	Varieties on Zululand's first overprinted ½d stamp by Tony Davis	22
	The postal cancellations of Natal by A. Leon Leslie	24
	The Morewood correspondence by John Dickson	29

Volume 4, Number 2 (June 2000)

	The origins of the Perkins Bacon 'Chalon head' stamps of Natal by John Dickson	31
	Rennie's steamer service; additional illustrations to the first instalment by John Dickson	43
	Rennie's steamer service between Cape Town and Natal, 1857 to 1862: Part 2 by John Dickson	45

Volume 4, Number 3 (September 2000)

	'Chalon head' stamps of Natal without 'Postage' overprint; the three pence stamps by John Dickson	69
	Rennie's steamer service between Cape Town and Natal, 1857 to 1862: Part 3 by John Dickson	89
	A cover of 1858 from Natal to Canada by John Dickson	100
	Unusual franking on an 1860 cover to the Cape by John Dickson	101
	Another Lindsay cover from the Cape by John Dickson	102
	A previously unrecorded Durban 'PAQUEBOT' handstamp by Alan Drysdall	102
	Natal circular embossed revenue stamps of 1868 by John Dickson	105

Volume 4, Number 4 (December 2000)

	'Chalon head' stamps of Natal without 'Postage' overprint; the one penny stamps by John Dickson	107
	P.O.A. 3 canceller used as an arrival mark by Werner Seeba	129
	Rennie's steamer service between Cape Town and Natal, 1857 to 1862: Part 4 by John Dickson	130
	Rennie's steamer service: two interesting covers by Roger Porter	142

Volume 5, Number 1 (March 2001)

	'Chalon head' stamps of Natal without 'Postage' overprint; the sixpenny stamps by John Dickson	1
	The Union Steam Ship Company's service to the Cape; the first contract, 1857-1862, and its extension into 1863: Part 1 by John Dickson	16
	Highflats by Werner Seeba	37
	Zululand: items from the Victoria Stamp Company's sale of 27th January 2001	39

Volume 5, Number 2 (June 2001)

	The Union Steam Ship Company's service to the Cape; the first contract, 1857-1862, and its extension into 1863: Part 2 by John Dickson	41
	The metal dies for the embossed postage stamps of Natal by John Dickson and Cedric Roché	55
	Another Rennie cover and a piece of history by Alan Drysdall and John Dickson	59
	Umsinga by Werner Seeba	60
	A postcard from Mullers Pass	62

Volume 5, Number 3 (August 2001)

	The De La Rue sixpenny stamp of 1874 and the Zululand overprint by John Dickson	63
	Zululand overprints on GB; the ½d vermilion of 1887 by John Dickson	71
	Zululand overprints on GB; the issues of April 1892 by John Dickson	76
	Another Rennie cover and a correction to earlier data by John Dickson	80
	The Union Steam Ship Company's packet service to the Cape; the first contract, 1857-1862, and its extension into 1863 (post scriptum) by John Dickson	82
	Postal Notices of 1895 and 1896	84

Volume 5, Number 4 (December 2001)

	The Edwardian 'Customs Duty' stamps of Natal by John Dickson and Jim Draper	85
	The Natal 'Queen's Head revenue die of 1886 by John Dickson	101
	'PLYMOUTH / PACKET LETTER' datestamp, March to June 1859 by John Dickson and Guy Dillaway	103
	'Via Bloemfontein' by John Dickson	106
	'SHIP LETTER' handstamp, Hart type X.1. by John Dickson	107
	The G.B. 9d stamp overprinted 'ZULULAND' in 1892 by John Dickson	107
	The Nqutu manuscript cancellation and cork cancellations on Zululand stamps by Peter Whitmore	109
	'ZULULAND'overprint on Natal revenue stamps by John Dickson	111

Volume 6, Number 1 (March 2002)

	The Union Steam Ship Company's packet service to the Cape - the second contract 1863-1868 by John Dickson	1
	Postmasters of Natal - Francis Spring by John Dickson	12
	Zululand overprints on GB postage stamps - an 1889 consignment by John Dickson	13
	The Natal 1882 1d (SG 99) with inverted watermark by Peter Whitmore	14
	Natal train letters - some examples by John Dickson and Peter Whitmore	15
	Royal Mail Service from Natal for Cape ports and England in the early months of the Second Anglo-Boer War by Richard Stroud	17
	A British registered envelope posted at POA 9 by John Dickson	18
	Natal postcard from the New Republic by John Dickson	19
	Natal post offices illustrated on postcards by Werner Seeba	21
	More on Zululand overprints on Natal revenue stamps and on the 6d Natal postage stamp by John Dickson	23
	A cover addressed to J. T. Rennie from his agent in Durban by John Dickson	24

Volume 6, Number 2 (June 2002)

	The Union Steam Ship Company's packet service to the Cape - the second contract 1863-1868 (cont.) by John Dickson	25
	Harburg by Werner Seeba	39
	The De La Rue halfpenny Victorian postage stamp of Natal by John Dickson	40
	Reply-paid postcards with supplementary postage stamps; do they reflect philatelic practices? by John Dickson	49
	Zululand - the muddle concerning the 1d revenue stamp by Tony Davis	52

Volume 6, Number 3 (September 2002)

	The Union Steam Ship Company's packet service to the Cape - the second contract 1863-1868 (cont.) by John Dickson	55
	Postage on mails by the General Screw Steam Ship Company by John Dickson	77
	Lindsay Line covers - an update by John Dickson	77
	The De La Rue Victorian one penny postage stamp of Natal by John Dickson	78
	The De La Rue ½d Natal stamp, perf. 12 by John Dickson	91
	GWR 3300 'Bulldog' class Natal Colony by Richard Stroud	92
	Inadi by Werner Seeba	92

Volume 6, Number 4 (December 2002)

	The Scott Douglas correspondence by John Dickson and Keith Klugman	93
	The Union Steam Ship Company's packet service to the Cape; the second contract 1863-1868 (contd.) by John Dickson	107
	An underfranked postal stationery card addressed to the UK forwarded via Bloemfontein by Richard Stroud	120
	One penny rose/buff embossed stamps - a missing stamp re-united to its cover and a new discovery on a front by Keith Klugman	121

Volume 7, Number 1 (March 2003)

	Natal postage stamp booklets by Brian Trotter and Tony Chilton	1
	Majuba - the Landon correspondence by John Dickson	5
	The 2d rate to the Cape by John Dickson	7
	Natal's response to the proposal in 1894 by the Postmaster-General of the ZAR that the South Africa states should adopt a unified colour scheme for their stamps by Alan Drysdall	9
	A post office agency in the Dundee area in 1908 by Richard Stroud	19
	A Natal Government postcart	23
	Inyoni by Tony Davis	24

Volume 7, Number 2 (June 2003)

	The Diamond Steam Navigation Company's Atlantic service by John Dickson	29
	The Wathen correspondence by Alan Drysdall and John Dickson	54
	A letter from the Cape by Alan Drysdall and John Dickson	75

Volume 7, Number 3 (September 2003)

	Stamps from De La Rue's 'General Keyplate' supplied to Natal: the 2d postage stamp, the revenue stamps and their overprints by John Dickson	77
	Quantities of Zululand overprints on Natal revenue stamps by John Dickson	92
	Marginal annotations on Chalon-head sixpenny stamps by John Dickson	93
	The 1894 proposals of the Agent-General of the Natal Government by John Dickson	94
	The Basuto wars by John Dickson	99
	An 1858 cover from France to Cape Colony by John Dickson	100
	An 1860 cover with manuscript cancellation by John Dickson	100
	Three Natal covers franked at the 1s packet rate by John Dickson	101
	Early Natal postcard addressed to the Cape Colony by John Dickson	103
	Hermannsburg by Werner Seeba	104
	Auctions - the Darge sale by Tony Davis	105

Volume 7, Number 4 (December 2003)

	The Mauritius services of the Union Steamship Company 1864-68 by John Dickson	107
	Underpaid letters to Cape Town during the period of the Union Steamship Company's second contract by John Dickson and Robert Johnson	130
	The Norman (1) and the Cape to Natal mail service in 1863 by Dudley Blascheck	132
	An underpaid letter to Natal in 1878 by courtesy of Argyll Etkin	134
	Postmasters of Natal - John William Coleman by John Dickson	134
	An unrecorded Durban 'PARCELS' datestamp dated Christmas Day 1906 by Peter Whitmore	136
	An unrecorded 'POSTAGE PAID' Maritzburg datestamp by Peter Whitmore	137
	Zululand revenue stamps by Tony Davis	138
	A previously unreported feature of a Zululand datestamp by Tony Davis	140

Volume 8, Number 1 (March 2004)

	The Mauritius services of the Union Steamship Company 1864-68 (continued) by John Dickson	1
	Postal routes from Natal to the Cape in 1887 by R. N. Porter	26
	More on the Scott Douglas correspondence by R. N. Porter	28
	More on the Scott Douglas correspondence II by John Dickson and Jim Draper	29
	Two voyages of the SS Induna by Richard Stroud	32
	Some thoughts relating to the Inyoni / Lower Tugela saga by R. N. Porter	34

Volume 8, Number 2 (June 2004)

	The sea-borne mails of Natal, 1863 to 1868: part 1 by John Dickson	37
	Overland mail via Newcastle and Wakkerstroom by R. N. Porter	55
	An 1863 entire addressed to Utrecht, Buffels Rivier by R. N. Porter	57
	The De La Rue surface printed Victorian three pence stamps of Natal by John Dickson	59
	Postscript to "The De La Rue halfpenny Victorian postage stamp of Natal by John Dickson Wartime letters from Durban by David McNamee	66 68
	Entonjaneni: Notes on the place and the cancellations by Peter Whitmore	70

Volume 8, Number 3(September 2004)

	The sea-borne mails of Natal, 1863 to 1868: part 2 by John Dickson	81
	1864 Cape cover to the UK by John Taylor	104
	1863 cover from Harrismith to Durban by John Dickson	105
	The Pietermaritzburg 'Sunday Fee' by John Dickson and Bram Leeflang	109
	A letter from England by the General Screw Steam Ship Company's steamer Cape of Good Hope by John Dickson	110

Volume 8, Number 4 (December 2004)

	The sea-borne mails of Natal, 1863 to 1868: part 3 by John Dickson	111
	The arms and official seals of the Colony of Natal by John Dickson	129
	Chalon-head sixpenny stamps - marginal annotations by "AMcD" by John Dickson	132
	Addendum - South African mails via Mauritius, 1866 by John Dickson De La Rue's telegraph stamps for Natal by John Dickson	133 134
	Chalon-head stamps of Natal overprinted 'TELEGRAPH' by John Dickson and Andrew Higson	140
	OFS postal orders cashed in Natal by Richard Stroud	142

Volume 9, Number 1 (March 2005)

	The sea-borne mails of Natal, 1863 to 1868: part 4 by John Dickson	1
	The Royal Navy and the Anglo-Zulu war by John Dickson	18
	More on De La Rue's telegraph stamps for Natal by John Dickson	25
	Spink sale of the 9th and 10th March, 2005; two covers from the Cape of Good Hope by the General Screw Steam Shipping Company's second contract by John Dickson	26
	Spink sale of the 9th and 10th March, 2005; 1866 cover from Natal with retouched 3d stamp by John Dickson	27
	A Machadodorp 1d postal stationery card posted at Lourenco Marques by Alan Drysdall	28

Volume 9, Number 2 (June 2005)

	The sea-borne mails of Natal, 1863 to 1868: part 5 by John Dickson	29
	The First American mission to Natal, 1836 to 1838 by John Dickson	44