Details Series: 1970 Goodwill Caravan Subject: Coach Designer: Gordon Drummond Printer: Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ltd, New Malden, Surrey, England Process: Lithography Paper: Watermark: Multiple St. Edward’s Crown Block CA (sideways) Perf: 13.5 x 13 (comb) Cylinders: Printed in sheets of two and separated by vertical gutter. 1a (Magenta) 1a (Orange) 1a (Cyan)…
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Bahamas Philately: 1970 Goodwill Caravan
The theme of the 1970 Goodwill Caravan is associated with world-wide travel and tourism as a means of getting people everywhere together in mutual understanding. The issue was originally slated for a release date of 30 June 1970. Details Date of Issue: 14 July 1970 Date Withdrawn: 31 December 1970 Date…
View More Bahamas Philately: 1970 Goodwill CaravanMalawi Philately: Grey-Headed Bushshrike (Malaconotus blanchoti)
The grey-headed bushshrike (Malaconotus blanchoti) is a species of passerine bird in the family Malaconotidae. It is widespread throughout sub-Saharan Africa, although relatively absent in Central Africa and the interior of southern Africa. It is the most widespread species of its genus, which consists of large bushshrikes with massive bills…
View More Malawi Philately: Grey-Headed Bushshrike (Malaconotus blanchoti)Zambia Philately: 1970 Preventive Medicine
Preventive medicine aims to prevent sickness before it happens. The ideology behind preventive medicine focuses on protecting, promoting, and maintaining health and well-being. It also aims to avert disease, disability, and death on an individual basis, as well as on a large scale in communities and populations. During the 1950s,…
View More Zambia Philately: 1970 Preventive MedicineZambia Philately: 1970 Preventive Medicine – 15n Nutrition
In 1968, Marianne Dettmers Wightman was a Canadian volunteer with the National Food and Nutrition Commission. She took a photo that became the ‘healthy baby’ for one of the posters that were distributed widely throughout Zambia and Malawi. Gabriel Ellison used a drawing of the healthy baby for the 15n…
View More Zambia Philately: 1970 Preventive Medicine – 15n NutritionRhodesia Philately: 1970 Inauguration of the Posts & Telecommunications Corporation – 25c Telephone Exchange
Modern telecommunications equipment is the subject of this stamp. Rhodesia was the first country in Africa, and one of the first six in the world, to have subscriber trunk dialling facilities when equipment, designed and built by post office engineers, was introduced to the public system in March, 1954. Details…
View More Rhodesia Philately: 1970 Inauguration of the Posts & Telecommunications Corporation – 25c Telephone ExchangeRhodesia Philately: 1970 Inauguration of the Posts & Telecommunications Corporation – 15c Telegraph Line
As the railway pushed northwards so too did the first telegraph line. This followed a route from Mafeking to Palapye and on to Macloutsie, where it then followed the same route taken by the pioneer column to reach Salisbury. The stamp shows a typical construction party of the time. Details…
View More Rhodesia Philately: 1970 Inauguration of the Posts & Telecommunications Corporation – 15c Telegraph LineRhodesia Philately: 1970 Inauguration of the Posts & Telecommunications Corporation – 3½c International Airport
The contrasting stamp illustrates the loading of mails at Salisbury’s international airport. This airport, with one of the longest runways in the world, can accommodate any of the great modern aircraft now in service. Extensive use is made of the facilities available for the conveyance of mails by air to,…
View More Rhodesia Philately: 1970 Inauguration of the Posts & Telecommunications Corporation – 3½c International AirportRhodesia Philately: 1970 Inauguration of the Posts & Telecommunications Corporation – 2½c Despatch Rider
Less than a hundred years ago the first postal services followed closely on the heels of the pioneer column sent by Rhodes to occupy Mashonaland. The mails were carried by relays of despatch riders of the British South Africa Company’s Police. The 2½c stamp depicts a despatch rider of the…
View More Rhodesia Philately: 1970 Inauguration of the Posts & Telecommunications Corporation – 2½c Despatch RiderRhodesia Philately: 1970 Inauguration of the Posts & Telecommunications Corporation
The Posts and Telecommunications Corporation Act, 1970 provides for the establishment of a statutory corporation to undertake the management and operation of the postal, telegraph and telephone services in Rhodesia with effect from the 1st July, 1970. This legislation terminates a distinguished era of almost 80 years of spectacular achievement…
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