Journal Topics - December 2023
Topics in the December 2023 Issue
The December 2023 Journal (Issue 108) contains interesting new articles for Cape, Zululand and CGH.
Keith Klugman’s astonishing curating of 28 Windham/Maclean covers and fronts, which together with three others previously found, must represent one of the largest sets of correspondence in Natal, and possibly Southern African, Colonial history.
Provisioned with images contributed by several individuals and organisations, and aided by the work of several authors, Simon Solomon was able to investigate the lives of Juliet Maclean and Her Contemporaries with the aim of reanimating them.
Other aspects of Natal and its postcards are covered in an article by Keith Klugman and Bram Leeflang, this time focusing on Small Vignette Private Postcards, two newly discovered Views of Durban are presented and there is a continuation article which showcases two very attractive sets of ‘Minerva Heads’ which were produced by De La Rue in an attempt to create a standard set of stamps for the Cape, Natal, Orange Free State and Transvaal.
Cape Triangulars feature in a most practical Stamp Soaking Study by Stanley Brown and Christopher Dorn. For those of us who’ve often looked at our collections and wondered if we dare try to improve the colour and brightness of some of the stamps, the research provides some extremely useful results and suggestions.
Two extremely rare covers with Cape Triangulars used in the Orange Free State appeared in a recent Corinphila Auction and make their re-appearance here. Zululand’s 1888 Revenue Issue rounds off the range of subjects included in the Journal.