rod222
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Post by rod222 on Apr 25, 2014 22:50:55 GMT
Scott Malawi Southeast Africa CAPITAL — Lilongwe The British Protectorate of Nyasaland became the independent state of Malawi on July 6, 1964, and a republic on July 6, 1966. 12 Pence = 1 Shilling 20 Shillings = 1 Pound 100 Tambalas = 1 Kwacha (1970) Location : about 2 o'clock on this boundary map of South Africa. ( Coordinate "E 1.") Lies along the Western Shoreline of Lake Malawi (Was : Lake Nyassa)   |
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Apr 25, 2014 22:54:03 GMT
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Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Apr 26, 2014 8:12:07 GMT
Last night I sorted through a small glassine filled with stamps from Malawi. It was an unhappy discovery to find that the Marker Monkey has made his way over there. Usually, countries with low development like Malawi will count on hand-cancelling for their postal services, and stamps cancelled with a scribble are thankfully uncommon. But I found two of them last night. Boo.  Ryan |
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Apr 26, 2014 9:17:37 GMT
Last night I sorted through a small glassine filled with stamps from Malawi. It was an unhappy discovery to find that the Marker Monkey has made his way over there. Usually, countries with low development like Malawi will count on hand-cancelling for their postal services, and stamps cancelled with a scribble are thankfully uncommon. But I found two of them last night. Boo. Ryan It just may be, that these were applied at the receiving end, wherever that may have been. The evidence is circumstantial. I find the question open (but still Boo)  PS: I was questioning (In the page above) What was "Turkish Tobacco" , doing in Malawi ? Google fixed that. |
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blaamand
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Post by blaamand on Apr 16, 2019 19:58:47 GMT
I'm in the process of creating my custom pages for Malawi. Unlike most catalogs and stamp albums, I consider Malawi to be more than the area that changed its name upon its independence in 1964. It was the same area, people and history from the area was defined as British Central Africa, hence my collection for Malawi will include stamps from before its independence. Here's a thumbnail of my Malawi front page, reflecting my way of thinking on presenting the collection from an area that has changed its name.  Anybody else that is consolidating these 3 different 'stamp countries' into 1 collection? Maybe I am just being the odd one.  |
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Post by clivel on Apr 16, 2019 23:28:52 GMT
That is a really nice looking cover page. I collect BCA and Nyasaland which I have consolidated into one collection. Although I don't collect Malawi, if I did, then I would also include it in the same collection. There is also of course, a fourth 'stamp country', when from 1953 to 1963, Nyasaland was part of the "Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland". This, however, I have included in my Rhodesia collection which consists of: Rhodesia (British South Africa Company), Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Rhodesia Post Federation.
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renden
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Post by renden on Apr 16, 2019 23:31:26 GMT
Jon ( blaamand ) - Catalogues have separated this same Country because it is easier for the WW beginning collector (and most collectors I guess) and I have checked the old Scott Junior International 40s albums...(Nyasaland was in there, mentioning the former British Central Africa)...so the only way to do it is your way - more work but better historically !!....we call this continuum..... And another member just made the puzzle harder  ....but not BCA stuff René |
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blaamand
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Post by blaamand on Apr 17, 2019 7:19:52 GMT
Thanks for the kind words clivel, and for your feedback. Good to know others are also organizing on national identity rather than merely by name or by following a catalogue As you are pointing out, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland also comes into the picture to complicate things further. In my logic that Federation doesn't 'sort' under neither Rhodesia or Nyasaland/Malawi - but as a entity on its own. Clearly the majority of that area was Rhodesia, so if anything Rhodesia seems the logical 'owner'. What I am doing in such instances - I will keep a separate collection for this Federation outwidt the collection for Rhodesia and Nyasaland. However it still annoys me because the timeline in the national collections for both Rhodesia and Nyasaland will be 'broken' - as if no stamps were used. In order to fill this gap in the timeline, I will try to find postmarks to identify if a Rhodesia & Nyasaland stamp was used in either Nyasaland or in Rhodesia, and use these to fill 'intermediate' collections for both areas - one set for stamps used in Rhodeisa and the other for Nyasaland. There are several of these 'federations' that is interrupting the continued timeline of one area, example given KUT. So I am doing the same for Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda - filling the years of gap in the KUT period with stamps of KUT used in either of the 3 countries. Similar applies for many other temporary areas, for instance Czekoslovakia, Soviet union and Yugoslavia stamps. I will try to find stamps postmarked in each of the nations that broke out of these federations and use them to create intermediate collections. It takes time and I have no intention to build complete collections in this way - just a selection to fill the gap in a nations postal timeline. To each his own  |
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blaamand
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Post by blaamand on Apr 17, 2019 7:23:03 GMT
Thanks renden - well said - that is exactly what I am trying to achieve  And you are absolutely right - it creates much more work - but it fulfills a desire to build a historical timeline |
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angore
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Post by angore on Apr 17, 2019 16:18:42 GMT
The year gaps never have been an issue for me but I find the "old" Rhodesia and the "new" Rhodesia (I think what Southern Rhodesia became) confusing to follow since I believe Scott separates them by another entity. (thinking from memory) My title pages are boring - just the title -- but do want to expand it more. I wanted to use a map at some point to locate. I definitely have not mastered them.  |
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Post by clivel on Apr 17, 2019 17:25:31 GMT
I find the "old" Rhodesia and the "new" Rhodesia (I think what Southern Rhodesia became) confusing to follow since I believe Scott separates them by another entity. (thinking from memory) The British South Africa Company formed in the late 19th century administered Rhodesia until it was divided into Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia. The former becoming a British Protectorate in 1924, the latter a British Colony in 1923. In 1953 they joined with Nyasaland (known until 1907 as British Central Africa) to form the "Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland". After the Federation was dissolved in 1963 Nyasaland was granted independence and became Malawi, Northern Rhodesia also granted independence became Zambia. Southern Rhodesia remained a British Colony until 1965 when under Ian Smith it declared UDI (Unilateral Declaration of Independence) and became known as Rhodesia. Eventually, it was also granted full independence in 1980 to become Zimbabwe. Clive |
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renden
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Post by renden on Apr 21, 2019 20:00:12 GMT
The way I try to figure it out, these 3 B.C.A. stamps (Sc 1-2-3) under British South Africa, are forerunners of Nyasaland Protectorate and further down the timeline.....Malawi. Let me see your British Central Africa stamps  |
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blaamand
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Post by blaamand on Apr 22, 2019 10:16:42 GMT
That's cool Rene - very nice B.C.A. stamps - indeed issued for use in what we now know as Malawi |
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angore
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Post by angore on Mar 18, 2022 10:17:34 GMT
A somewhat innovative postage due set design. Scott J1-J6  |
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....but not BCA stuff
