WASC on FaceBook

WASC runs an active Facebook group, which enables person-to-person discussion, and is particularly useful for sharing information, and for asking questions.

It is a 'private' group, meaning that you must belong to the group in order to view the content or add to it, so we have made a short video which enables you to look at a sample of the content before you make a decision about whether to join the group. You can find it at https://youtu.be/K0JodTMSC98.

To join the WASC Facebook group you need to apply. The process is easy, and we have made a WASC on Facebook .pdf to explain it.

You can apply to join the WASC Facebook group even if you are not a member of WASC, but we will need you to provide us with an email address we can use to contact you. There is no charge for this.

Roughly half of the posts simply show West African material without exciting comment, and a few are announcements, but a significant number of posts have involved questions followed by discussion, usually resulting in answers. Recent topics have included:

• Significance of letters sent from Nigeria via the UK Board of Trade during WW2.
• First day covers issued for the various printings of the Nigeria sterling Wildlife set.
• Double overprints on St Helena QV stamps.
• Use of privately illustrated first day covers for West African issues of the omnibus Coronation set.
• When is a double-overprint on Lagos SG42, real and when it is just a ‘kiss’ print?
• Experience of ‘print on demand’ publishing.
• Query about an Ascension 2d ‘badge’ variety.
• Ghost A & B varieties of Nigeria SG520.
• How scarce is the Ascension 1½d missing cobalt variety?
• Northern Nigeria forgeries using Leeward Islands stamps and Madame Joseph cancels.
• Nigeria 1943 airmail: unknown cancel, censor and routing query.