WASC on FaceBook

WASC runs an active Facebook group, which enables person-to-person discussion, and is particularly useful for sharing information, and for asking questions.

Because the group is private, it's not possible to view the content or add to it unless you are already a member, so we have made a short video which enables you to look at a sample of the content before you make a decision about whether to join the group. You can find it at https://youtu.be/K0JodTMSC98.

Roughly half of the posts simply show West African material without exciting comment, and a few are announcements, but a significant number of posts have involved questions followed by discussion, usually resulting in answers. Recent topics have included:

• Significance of letters sent from Nigeria via the UK Board of Trade during WW2.
• First day covers issued for the various printings of the Nigeria sterling Wildlife set.
• Double overprints on St Helena QV stamps.
• Use of privately illustrated first day covers for West African issues of the omnibus Coronation set.
• When is a double-overprint on Lagos SG42, real and when it is just a ‘kiss’ print?
• Experience of ‘print on demand’ publishing.
• Query about an Ascension 2d ‘badge’ variety.
• Ghost A & B varieties of Nigeria SG520.
• How scarce is the Ascension 1½d missing cobalt variety?
• Northern Nigeria forgeries using Leeward Islands stamps and Madame Joseph cancels.
• Nigeria 1943 airmail: unknown cancel, censor and routing query.

To join the group is easy, and we have made a WASC on Facebook .pdf to explain the process.