Orange Free State Philately Volume 3: The Republic and the Occupation 1854-1903 (Philately of Southern Africa)

This is a 2022 reprint of the 2002 Orange Free State Philately by Hisey and Bartshe. This is Volume 3 of their 3-volume set.The purpose of this 3rd Volume is to describe the present state of our knowledge for the subjects not covered in Volumes 1 and 2; that is, Revenues, Frankings, Postal Stationery and Postal Orders.Basically, until the mid-Twentieth Century, no one had a decent understanding of the complexity and interrelationship of the overprinting of the postage stamps, telegraph stamps and revenue stamps. All of these were overprinted in an order that made sense to the military, although it was a printer’s nightmare. This was elucidated by Laurence and then further by Buckley and Marriott. Some further development will be found in these volumes.A few notes on the illustrations are in order. Most of the stamp/overprint illustrations are given in twice life size for clarity. Some are actual scans, and others are tracings or drawings from actual scans, as seemed best. Most of the actual overprints show dirty type. The tracings are generally adjusted to show an outline somewhere between the true outline of the type and that of the actual dirty print, which varies considerably from stamp to stamp. Even if an illustration of the variety is shown in the text, it will be included in the general variety page for convenience of readersThis is a meticulously researched and lavishly illustrated volume. Read more