Thursday/ telephone your telegrams 📞

There was mail today, with of old South African stamps from an Ebay seller in North Carolina.
(I have expanded the original 1961-2000 timeframe for my South Africa stamp collection backwards to 1910, when the Union of South Africa was established).

From the Stanley Gibbons Catalog:
Issued Nov 2, 1936, for the Johannesburg International Philatelic Exhibition
Perf. 14½ x14, watermarked  Multiple Springbok’s head, inverted, overprinted ‘JIPEX 1936’
MS70 7 Dromedaris (Jan van Riebeeck’s ship) 1d grey and carmine
Issued in miniature sheets of 6 stamps with marginal advertisements.
21 different arrangements of the advertisements exist. 

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