Author: thedigitalphilatelist

The cluster of oranges was a black-and-white magazine picture, and the artwork’s original deep bluish green leaves and background was changed to a shade of bottlegreen at the request of the “client”. A panel of this colour was added to the artwork as a guide. The actual colour of the…

Two transparencies provided this charming subject, one being used for the pose of the animal, evidently on the alert in a forest of young trees, the other for detail of head and horns. The studio team decided to emphasize these aspects of the kudu as its most attractive and distinctive…

The artist’s brief was also brief and concise – “A hand of tobacco”, and the source of the design was another stamp, the 2s. 6d value of the Tobacco Congress issue of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1963. The “hand” depicted is of the cured Virginia type of tobacco, and when the…

Details Subject: Buffalo Designer: Victor Whitely Printer: Harrison & Sons Ltd, London Process: Photogravure Paper: White paper Watermark: None Perf: 14.5 (comb) Cylinders: 1A (Violet), 1A (Bistre) Sheet: R20 x 12 Quantity: 51,000,000 (ordered) 24,500,640 (sold) Cylinder Numbers Sheet Numbers Maximum Card (Unofficial) References Rhodesian Study Circle: Memoir 38 The Encyclopaedia of Rhodesian and Zimbabwean Postage Stamps Since…

In the corner window of Rhodesia House, looking out on the Strand with contemptuous eyes, is an enormous carved head of a buffalo, probably the only one that can be faced at close quarters without fear of reprisals! The sullen beast shown on the stamp was the subject of a…