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Stamps, postmarks, postal stationery and postal history

The West Africa Study Circle, formed in 1950, is the international specialist society for the study of stamps, postal stationery and postal history of West Africa. It originated from small specialist groups which already existed and has undergone several expansions of scope.

The following philatelic areas are the ones covered in the most depth. The map shows where they are. From there, or from these links, you will find brief introductions to each area:

Ascension / Tristan da Cunha / Gough Is. Cameroons Gambia Gold Coast / Ghana
Nigeria St Helena Sierra Leone Togo
Additionally, several other areas are also included: British Postal Agencies on Madeira, Tenerife. St Vincent (Cape Verde Islands) and Fernando Po; airmails and sea-mails throughout the region.

Study dates from the earliest times and includes military campaigns, maritime, censorship and airmails.

If you wish to contact the Study Circle for information which does not appear on the site, please use this email address (remove spaces): wasctreasurer @ aol. com

LATEST! (May 2013)

Prestedge Biafra in Grosvenor auction
The Grosvenor auction of June 5th is now on line. This includes the remarkable Biafra collection of our late member Dudley Prestedge, who sadly died during April. The link to the catalogue is here:

The Wartime Atlantic Routes of Pan American Airways
This set of documents, introduced and compiled by WASC member John Wilson, gives details of PanAm flights across the Atlantic during the Second World War, December 1941 to October 1945. Substantial amounts of mail were carried. The excellent maps have been produced by Peter Wingent.

WASC member, Peter Hørlyck, gained a gold medal at Nordia 2012 (Roskilde, Denmark) for his exhibit of Nigeria postal stationery. This will be one of the displays at our conference in October 2013.

The booklist was updated in January 2013.

An updated index to Cameo for "Volumes 1 to 13" is available on the Publications page. On the Nigeria page the "Index of Designs" has been updated to mid 2012.

Some other documents produced by members (RAF West Africa-Rabat, Shipping, Civil Aviation, Nigerian postmarks) are reached by links from the "Additional Documents" page.

Details of meetings were updated in April 2013.

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last updated: May 2, 2013

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