Page 27 - 148 Years of the Royal Philatelic Society London

In 1893: New Zealand is the first country to give women the vote in national elections,

Eros statue erected in Piccadilly Circus, London, Tchaikovsky dies, Meccano invented.

At the PSL: H.R.H. The Duke of York, later King George V, joins the Society and membership

increases by 65% in one year. Society acquires Prince Edward Island printing plates and dies.

Honorary President H.R.H. Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, K.G. (Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha).

PSL President was The Earl of Kingston. Membership stood at 247.

A MAIL ARRIVES

AT FORT GABERONES

From the collection of Andrew Briscoe.

Member since 2012. Lives in Botswana.

This envelope is addressed to an officer of the Bechuanaland Border Police deployed at the Fort

Gaberones police station. It was mailed at East London in the Cape of Good Hope on Friday 3rd March

1893, and arrived in Gaberones twelve days later. On the final stage of its journey, the 94 mile trek

across rock-strewn terrain from Mafeking to Gaberones, the envelope was carried in a coach that

resembled "a square box on wheels with a couple of springs". The coach was pulled by eight mules

and also carried four passengers. The envelope arrived at Fort Gaberones on Wednesday 15th March.