Stamps of the Orange Free State

An interpanneau block of eight of the 1900 1d on 1d purple showing positions 57-60 of a top right pane and the corresponding stamps from the lower right pane (positions 3-6). The stamp at position 57 shows the variety damaged left serif to V and the adjacent stamp (position 58) has level stops after R and I.

The Orange Free State Bulletin

The Bulletin is the official journal of the Orange Free State Study Circle. Go to their home page.

Image Catalog of OFS Stamps

This section contains a catalogue of postage and revenue stamps of the Orange Free State, along with a number of related items such as postal stationery, military frank stamps, and so forth. I intend to build this into as complete a catalogue as I can, over time.

Unless explicitly stated, the images have been created from stamps in my own collection. Stamps are generally scanned at 300 dpi. Where fine details need to be shown, 600 dpi has been used. Inline thumbnails of stamps are at approximately 100 dpi, covers at approximately 25-30 dpi. All images are in JPEG format.

Postage Stamps

• The 1868 definitives
• The 1877 4d on 6d provisional
• The 1878 definitives
• The 1881 1d on 5s provisional
• The 1882 ½d on 5s provisional
• The 1882 3d on 4d provisional
• The 1883-4 additional values
• The 1888 2d on 3d provisional
• The 1890 1d on 3d and 1d on 4d provisionals
• The 1892 2½d on 3d provisional
• The 1896 ½d on 3d provisional
• The 1897 2½(d) on 3d provisional
• The 1897 definitives
• The COMMANDO BRIEF Frank
• The "R.D.M." Official Frank
• The British Occupation - the 1900 VRI Overprints
• The Orange River Colony definitives
• Miscellaneous Items
• Forgeries

Revenue Stamps

Telegraph Stamps

• Telegraph Stamps

Postal Stationery

• Postcards
• Envelopes

Miscellaneous

• A mapping between old and current place names in the Orange Free State.
• List of Alphabetic and Numeral Cancellers

Books

• Pages from a Postmark Collection by Archie Batten (1983)
• Philately of the Anglo-Boer War by Stephen Rich (1943)
• Stamps of the Orange Free State (Volumes 1 to 3) by Buckley and Marriott (1966, 1971, 1976, and updates to 1997)
• The South African Provisional War Stamps by Bertram W.H. Poole (1901)