Bechuanaland and Botswana Philately

Collect Botswana Booklets & Postage Dues
This Page Illustrates
Booklets issued by Botswana from 1989 to 2002
Postage Dues 1967 - 1996
Booklets by
Malcolm Batty, Hans Blach & Otto Peetoom

Postage Dues - Otto Peetoom
1989 - 1992 Stamp Booklets SG SB1 to 16
Made up from the 1987 Definitives using strips of 10 or blocks of 20
SG SB1
20t booklet with SG 620 strip of 10
SG SB3
50t booklet with SG 623 strip of 10
SG SB4
80t booklet with SG 625 strip of 10
SG SB4a (1992)
Containing SG 725
SG SB6a (1990)
Containing SG 690
SG SB6b (1992)
Containing SG 726
8t on 12t SG 725
10t on 1t SG 690
10t on 12t SG 726
SG SB6
P1 booklet with SG 626 strip of 10
SG SB7
P1.50 booklet with SG 628 strip of 10
SG SB8a (1992)
Containing SG 725
SG SB9a (1990)
Containing SG 690
SG SB9b (1992)
Containing SG 726
8t on 12t SG 725
10t on 1t SG 690
10t on 12t SG 726
SG SB10
P2 booklet with SG 629 strip of 10
SG SB10a
(1990)
Containing SG 691
20t on 6t
SG 691
SG SB12
P3 booklet with SG 631 strip of 10
SG SB14
P4 booklet with SG 633 strip of 10
SG SB14a (1992)
Containing SG 728
SG SB14b (1990)
Containing SG 692
SG SB16a (1992)
Containing SG 728
40t on 3t SG 728
50t on 12t SG 692
40t on 3t SG 728
SG SB2
40t booklet with SG 620 block of 20
SG SB5
P1 booklet with SG 623 block of 20
SG SB8
P1.60 booklet with SG 625 block of 20
SG SB9
P2 booklet with SG 626 block of 20
SG SB11
P3 booklet with SG 628 block of 20
SG SB13
P4 booklet with SG 629 block of 20
SG SB15
P6 booklet with SG 631 block of 20
SG SB16
P8 booklet with SG 633 block of 20
1993 - 1994 Stamp Booklets SG SB17 to 34
Made up from the 1992 Definitives using strips of 10 or blocks of 20
SG SB17
P1 booklet with SG 742 strip of 10
SG SB17a (1994)
Containing SG 792
10t on 12t
SG SB20a (1994)
Containing SG 792
10t on 12t
SG SB18
P1.20 booklet with SG 743 strip of 10
SG SB19
P1.50 booklet with SG 744 strip of 10
SG SB21
P2 booklet with SG 745 strip of 10
SG SB23
P2.50 booklet with SG 746 strip of 10
SG SB25
P3.50 booklet with SG 747 strip of 10
SG SB27
P4 booklet with SG 748 strip of 10
SG SB28
P4.50 booklet with SG 749 strip of 10
SG SB30
P5 booklet with SG 750 strip of 10
SG SB20
P2 booklet with SG 742 block of 20
SG SB22
P2.40 booklet with SG 743 block of 20
SG SB24
P3 booklet with SG 744 block of 20
SG SB26
P4 booklet with SG 745 block of 20
SG SB29
P5 booklet with SG 746 block of 20
SG SB31
P7 booklet with SG 747 block of 20
SG SB32
P8 booklet with SG 748 block of 20
SG SB33
P9 booklet with SG 749 block of 20
SG SB34
P10 booklet with SG 750 block of 20
1996 Cover as before - Cut down
SG SB35
P1 booklet with 5t & 15t SG 741 & 744 in strips of 5 - Stamps attached by selvedge

SG SB35
Openend up
Issued from machines at Gaborone
and Francistown Main Post Offices.
Subsequently replaced by booklets with plain white covers containing
P1 worth of current stamps
attached by the selvedge.
Booklet with a Blank cover dated stamped - GABORONE 1997-12-16
With strips of the 1997 5t x 2 and 30t x 3 Bird definitives = P1
2002 - 2004 Stamp Booklets SG SB37 to 48
Made up using strips of 10 of current issues

SG SB 37
P5 booklet with 50t Sunset SG 954 - Illustrated

SG SB 38
P5 booklet with 50t Bee Eater SG 958 - Illustrated

SG SB 39
P5 booklet with 50t Snake SG 964 - Illustrated

SG SB 40
P5 booklet with 50t Pottery SG 968 - Illustrated

SB 41 to 48 - Sold at P5.50

SG SB 41
P5 booklet with 55t QEII SG 972 - Illustrated

SG SB 42
P5 booklet with 55t Elephant SG 979

SG SB 43
P5 booklet with 55t Aids awareness SG 990

SG SB 44
P5 booklet with 55t Aardwolf SG 994

SG SB 45
P5 booklet with 55t Lover's Hill SG 1000

SG SB 46
P5 booklet with 55t Beetle SG 1004

SG SB 47
P5 booklet with 55t Giraffe SG 1009

SG SB 48
P5 booklet with 55t Kuru Art SG 1015
SG SB37
P5 booklet with
SG 954 strip of 10
SG SB38
P5 booklet with
SG 958 strip of 10
SG SB40
P5 booklet with
SG 968 strip of 10
SG SB 42
SG SB 43
55t Aids awareness
SG 990
SG SB 44
SG SB 45
SG SB 46
SG SB 47
SG SB 48

55t Elephant

55t Aardwolf

55t Lover's Hill

55t Beetle

55t Giraffe
SG 979
SG 994
SG 1000
SG 1004
SG 1009
SG 1015
2002 - 2004 Stamp Booklet Make-up

Red Front Cover
Used for
P5.00 & P5.50 booklets

Inside Front
Postage Rates

Inside Back
Warning You are...

Back Cover
BotswanaPost
Advert

Booklet Covers
SG SB41 (QEII) and SG SB 39 (Snakes) - Illustrated above
Each back cover had a punch hole as these booklets were intended to for for sale in Supermarkets - hence the hole in the back cover
They were a failed attempt by the marketing department, without advice from anyone having philatelic understanding to sell stamps in supermarkets
They were never announced to the philatelic public, were only available for about a year, and were withdrawn even before any of the locals had heard of them
Botswana Postage Dues 1967 - 1996
1 March 1967 Overprints on 1961 issue
SG D13 - 15
9 June 1971 - Litho by Bradbury, Wilkinson
SG D16 - 19
18 April 1977 - 1984 Designed by M. Bryan Printed in Litho by the Government Printer in Pretoria
SG D20 - 24
Perforation 12½
April 1977 Issue

Perforation 14
June 1981 on white paper - 1t, 2t & 4t
1984 10t & 16t

September 1988 - Reprinted on poorer paper
1t
1978 (D20)
Black & Vermilion

1980 (D20a)
Bright orange
1 April 1989 - Printed in Litho by National Printing and Packing, Zimbabwe
SG D25 - 29 Type I - Perforation 12½
Type I

Grass sparse
No shading dots on Zebra
Zebra's right ear has right edge missing

1993 - Printed in Litho by National Printing and Packing, Zimbabwe
SG D25a - 29a Type II - Perforation 14
Type II

Grass thicker
Shading dots on Zebra
Right ear almost complete

Reprinted - Perforation 14½
D25ab - 29ab

Botswana Miniature Sheets
Botswana Fifty Years of Stamps