SOUTHERN CENTRAL AFRICA

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Due to popularity a second edition of the Stanley Gibbons Southern and Central Africa is to be published. Listings for issues up to 1970 have been extracted from the 2015 Commonwealth and British Empire Stamps 1870–1970. Later new issues have been revised and updated especially for this catalogue. KEY SELLING Comprehensive priced listings of the stamps of present-day Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique (from 1995), Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Includes earlier stamp issuing Basutoland, Bechuanaland, British Central Africa, British South Africa Company, Cape of Good Hope, Griqualand West, Natal, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Orange Free State, Rhodesia, Rhodesia and Nyasaland, South West Africa, Southern Rhodesia, Stellaland, Transvaal and Zululand. Also includes Anglo-Boer War provisional issues for Mafeking and other towns and the ‘Homelands’ of Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Transkei and Venda. On cover ‘multipliers’ provided for all stamps to 1945, to allow calculation of prices for stamps on cover. Watermark varieties, shades, plate flaws, Major errors, postage due stamps and booklets all listed and priced. Includes priced listings of Transvaal Republic stamps used in Swaziland and British stamps used by the Army in South Africa. Prices have been extensively revised throughout with a number of significant increases in early issues in particular. Handy size and format. Illustrations in colour.