Introduction
The British Libraries’ Crawford Library catalogue1 contains many books and pamphlet which list stamp dealers. Many of those were published in North America and therefore mostly relate to dealers from that continent. However international dealers were sometime recorded; M.Z. Booleman is one of these Transvaal dealers that is normally found.2 However, I have yet to find Heinrich Henning.
The postal stationery card illustrated here has a messages related to the selling of stamps.
This postal stationery card was first illustrated (address side only) in the South African Philatelist3. Later it featured on Transvaal Study Circle’s website and in a full article in the The Transvaal Philatelist.
The 1d South African Republic (Second Republic) postal stationery card is addressed to Germany, up rated with 1d Vurtheim stamp and datestamped at Pretoria on 23rd June, 1894. The sender Heinrich Henning, a stamp dealer, enquires if the stamps he sent have arrived. His address is given on the purple handstamp as “Pretoria. S.A.R.” Like all stamp dealers he was expectant of future business.
Notes
1 Bacon, E.D., (1911), Catalogue of the Crawford Library of Philatelic Literature at the British Library, The London Literature Society, The Printer’s Stone Limited in Association with the British Library; a supplement appeared during 1926 and this in turn was followed by Bacon, E.D. (Sir), (March 1938), Addenda to the “Supplement to the Catalogue of the Philatelic Library of the Earl of Crawford, K.T.”, was published as a Supplement to the London Philatelist. These three works were incorporated in a reprinted edition, which was limited to 500 copies, during 1991, which include the British Libraries shelfmarks for the books etc.; it was published by ‘The Printer’s Stone Limited’ in association with The British Library. A copy of which can be viewed in the Rare Books and Music Reading Room of the British Library and is on open access at Shelfmark: RAR 769.56. Please bear in mind that a reader’s pass will be required.
2 Bunce’s dealers address book, (1896), printed New York, records Booleman’s address as: Box. 997, Johannesburg, Transvaal.
3 Early JHB [Johannesburg] Stamp Dealers, South African Philatelist, (April 1983), p.103.
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