Early South Africa

Today is question day for me - this pair was pulled out of my kiloware box from several years ago. I think it's the later pair since the R in Africa appears to have a straight leg rather than the curved leg of the earlier version, but I don't have a decent reference for this. Can anyone help on this? It's fine either way as both pairs are close in value, but the later one is a tad bit higher than the earlier one. I'm not actively collecting South Africa but I do end up with them in my kilo purchases on a regular basis.

Mary,
there is a very valuable weblink for these very frustrating
African stamps, unfortunately, I have lost the link.

I'll post an image, maybe an SCF member will recognise it?

Found it!
http://www.rjbw.net/OneP.html

Rod, that link is great - once I could see the variations, it was easy to pin it down. A bit of confusion though, as the site shows the pair labeled as 1948 being scott #49 while the Scott catalog shows this stamp as being from. Since mine appears to be a 1940 postmark and its coloring is a good match for the 1940 version, I'm going to put it down as Sc#49 from 1940, assuming that the Scott catalog date is correct.

Very nice display and thank you for the info that you shared .

That's a really useful link, thankyou! I was struggling with matching my stamps to the grainy black and white images in my (rather old) SG Commonwealth catalogue and gave up in frustration. Maybe I'll tackle them again...

That makes two of Us :)
South Africa is one of my last countries to begin to mount,
I have boxes of them, but keep putting them off due to their difficulty.

I figure for the time it takes, you kinda want
to do it well, I have been putting it off waiting for a SG concise catalogue
but they have been expensive.

I recall my first attempt, I gave up at the "orange tree"
that confused the socks off me.