The annual Moomba Festival is being held over the period 26th February to 8th March, 1971, and the usual Victorian Philatelic Association Stamp Display will be a featrure of the festival, with an associated temporary post office. Details Date: 26 February 1971 – 8 March 1971 Quantity: 4,596 (ordinary articles)…
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Australia Philately: 1971 Fifth Congress International Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
A temporary post office was provided at the Masonic Centre, East Melbourne, from 22nd to 26th February, 1971, for the convenience of delegates to the 5th International Congress of the International Confederation for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Details Date: 22 February 1971 – 26 February 1971 Quantity: 3,998 (ordinary articles)…
View More Australia Philately: 1971 Fifth Congress International Plastic & Reconstructive SurgeryMalawi Philately: 1971 Introduction of Decimal Currency – 56t Miniature Sheet
Details Designer: Victor Whiteley Printer: Format International Security Printers Ltd Process: Lithography Paper: Watermark: Cockerels (sideways) Perf: 14 (comb) Cylinders: Sheet: Quantity:
View More Malawi Philately: 1971 Introduction of Decimal Currency – 56t Miniature SheetMalawi Philately: 1971 Introduction of Decimal Currency – 30t Coinage and Rooster
Details Designer: Victor Whiteley Printer: Format International Security Printers Ltd Process: Lithography Paper: Watermark: Cockerels (sideways) Perf: 14 (comb) Cylinders: 1D (Blue), 1B (Black), 1B (Gold), 1B (Silver) Sheet: Quantity: Cylinder Numbers
View More Malawi Philately: 1971 Introduction of Decimal Currency – 30t Coinage and RoosterMalawi Philately: 1971 Introduction of Decimal Currency – 15t Coinage and Rooster
Details Designer: Victor Whiteley Printer: Format International Security Printers Ltd Process: Lithography Paper: Watermark: Cockerels (sideways) Perf: 14 (comb) Cylinders: 1D (Deep Purple), 1B (Black), 1B (Gold), 1B (Silver) Sheet: Quantity: Cylinder Numbers
View More Malawi Philately: 1971 Introduction of Decimal Currency – 15t Coinage and RoosterMalawi Philately: 1971 Introduction of Decimal Currency – 8t Coinage and Rooster
Details Designer: Victor Whiteley Printer: Format International Security Printers Ltd Process: Lithography Paper: Watermark: Cockerels (sideways) Perf: 14 (comb) Cylinders: 1B (Red), 1B (Black), 1B (Gold), 1B (Silver) Sheet: Quantity: Cylinder Numbers
View More Malawi Philately: 1971 Introduction of Decimal Currency – 8t Coinage and RoosterMalawi Philately: 1971 Introduction of Decimal Currency – 3t Coinage and Rooster
Details Designer: Victor Whiteley Printer: Format International Security Printers Ltd Process: Lithography Paper: Watermark: Cockerels (sideways) Perf: 14 (comb) Cylinders: 1A (Greenish-Blue), 1A (Black), 1A (Gold), 1A (Silver) Sheet: Quantity: Cylinder Numbers
View More Malawi Philately: 1971 Introduction of Decimal Currency – 3t Coinage and RoosterMalawi Philately: 1971 Introduction of Decimal Currency
Malawi officially replaced the Malawian pound with the Kwacha on 28 August 1970. The country had circulated the Pound sterling, the Rhodesian Dollar and the South African Rand at different stages. The Kwacha is divided into hundred Tambala. The word kwacha means “dawn” in the Nyanja and Bemba languages and…
View More Malawi Philately: 1971 Introduction of Decimal CurrencyMalawi Philately: 1971 Special United Kingdom Delivery Service (Overprint)
The 1971 United Kingdom postal workers strike was a strike in the United Kingdom staged by postal workers between 20 January and 3 March 1971. When the British postal service went on strike, the Malawi Government made a special arrangement for the transmission of mail to the United Kingdom. On…
View More Malawi Philately: 1971 Special United Kingdom Delivery Service (Overprint)Australia Philately: 1971 Fifth Commonwealth Education Conference
A special postmarker will be used at a temporary post office at the Hayon-Allen Building, Canberra, for the Fifth Commonwealth Education Conference, 3rd-17th February, 1971. Australian collectors may obtain impressions by forwarding fully stamped and addressed envelopes, under pre-paid cover, to the Postmaster, Canberra City, A.C.T. 2601, to reach him…
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