An evening of Tanganyika Postal History

We were treated to a wonderful display of Tanganyika Postal History by Eric Coulton, where he covered the origins and development of postal services in the area of East Africa known as Tanganyika. Starting with a background to the area and its change from Portuguese to German to British, through various wars and treaties, he was able to show early mail from the area and the postal services that ran across East Africa.

As well as a lovely display of blocks of the first definitive series and the iconic Giraffe stamps of 1922-1925, he was able to show Internee mail from prison camps, postmarks from the region, and maritime mail, before moving onto the airmail services.

He illustrated Rail mail, Airmail and Lacustrine mail (mail carried across lakes such as Victoria and Tanganyika) with some scarce cancellations on some infrequently found mail routes.

He finished with a frame on the Polish Refugee camps found in this region in WWII including Tengeru Camp.

The vote of thanks was given by Brian Lythgoe and the Society is extremely grateful to Dr. Coulton for his excellent display.