The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-25
important. II should be done at once
Let the councilmea keep their pledges.
The petitions have been signed up"
10000 FOR OLD STAMPS.
- Of Netable Collection Dealing
With the South African Issues.

--te Of Notable Collection Dealing
With the South African Issues.
There has just been sold in London
to a firm Of stamp experts doing bus
tness there and in this city a collection
which has been twenty-one years Ia
making. It contained the stamps Of
only single little republic. the Trans,
vaal In South Africa through all its
NAM changes; but it is supposed to be
as nearly perfect as a stamp collection
ever was It brought nearly $4,000,
record price.
n. J. Nankiveil made the collection.
and has made good thing ont OF Il,
chiefly because a great demand has
sprung up for the rare= =>;sspps since
the Transvaal became a British colony
There have been SO many political
changes in the country that its stamps
form a sort OF historic record Of trirIy-
i've years.
The first and most sought for group
in the lot is that issued by the first
South African republic between 1859
and 1877 The plates for these were
made in Gustrow. Germany, and the
first supply was sent to the Transvaal
with the plates.
In 1870. when this supply was all
used up. "oer, Mir. Vilioen OF Pre-
toria, printed fresh lot These lasted
two years, and then a Mr.. Bo,rius al
Potchefstrom did a little more stamp
printing.
In September 1874, penny and six
penny stamps were printed for the
Boei government by a MIR. Davis OF
Maritzburg These are noteworthy be
cause they were the first to be pertor
ated for use In the republic After this
stamp commission took charge OF the
printing till the first British occupa
tion in July. 1877.
The British seized all the stamps OF
the republic remaining in the postofic'
and printed over them ~. II. Trans
vaal, the V. II. above the name OF ths
State. The printers worked undeI
some pressure, 90 naturally there were
q few errors.
A famous one is penny red on blu'
With the name Of the state spelled
"rransveal." The stamps with thea,
errors are 80 rare that experts value
them at from 1875 to $3.50 apiece.
There we're other errors. all Of I'm
portance now TO the philatelist. One
shows the overprint inverted on th'
stamps. A rare print Of one OF these II
valued at t1.oO.
There are only two specimens known
One is the Nankiyvl collection, tbs
other ia the Tapling collection. ws.ch
arranged in fine cabinets, is on view II
the British museum.
In 1878 the British in'roduoed q new
set Of rransvaal stamps in denomina
tions from a half penny to two shil
lings each They are not rare. an'
were stin in use In 1882, when thu
Beers got their country back apd hel'
& till 1900.
p'hey took some OF the British
stamps and overprinted them Ell
Penny" using them temporarily whil
new set was being made. This tin
they had the plates made in Holland
The various sets made from thes
Dutch plates. with fes provisional
used during shortage Of supplies, laste
them till the republic fell in June c
1900.
Then came the stamps Of the secon
, British occupation. The British mil
tary authorities took some Of the Gu
rent stamps and oyerprinted theI
". r. l." These were issuel in Pr
J toria In June. 1900
b In the following March, 1901. IN
. ovcrprint was altered to ~ r. J., 70
the new king, Edward VII. Finally,
a April, 1902, the present set with n
& kings head on them was issued.
The South African stamps. on a
, count Of these many changes. are b
4 coming notable Several OF the cole
tions are IN the hands OF members
q the Philatelic Society Of London, whic
Q Is nov preparing a pamphlet on n
y South African stamps.
q This collection, which may probao
= be divided, Is now IN seven volumes.
q glance through which shows the poll
p ical changes 10 the country st once