Author: thedigitalphilatelist

The ½d. design, which depicts an African woman with a basket picking tea in Nyasaland, was compiled from two photographs taken by Messrs. R. K. D-Hadden and R. L. Kinsey, both of the Public Relations Department. The former showed a woman picking tea and the latter a male African performing…

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A philatelic advisory committee was set up consisting of 11 members, representing philatelic societies at Salisbury, Bulawayo, Kitwe and Limbe, and various Government Departments. The committee decided that a new issue of Federal postage stamps was desirable, and that the designs should be pictorial and taken from selected photographs. The…

View More Rhodesia & Nyasaland Philately: 1959 Definitive Series

The Chirundu Bridge (Otto Beit Bridge) was only one of two road links at that time across the Zambezi linking the Rhodesias. The other bridge being the Victoria Falls Bridge. Details Designer:  Printer: Thomas De La Rue & Company London Process: Recess Paper:  Watermark: None Perf: 14.5 (comb) Plates: Printed in panes of two…

View More Rhodesia & Nyasaland Philately: 1959 Definitive Series – 2/- Chirundu Bridge

The 2/6d stamp shows a Central African Airways ‘Viscount’ airliner standing on the apron of the Salisbury air terminal building. The official photograph shows the aircraft as being ‘VP-YND Mweru’, and the time on the airport clock as 8.35 on a sunny morning. Details Designer:  Printer: Thomas De La Rue…

View More Rhodesia & Nyasaland Philately: 1959 Definitive Series – 2/6d Salisbury Airport

The photograph used for the 5s. denomination is an official public relations office photograph taken by Mr. H. M. Crane, and depicts a scene in Salisbury of Rhodes’ statue with Tanganyika House in the background. This statue was designed by John Tweed and unveiled in 1926. Unlike other statues of…

View More Rhodesia & Nyasaland Philately: 1959 Definitive Series – 5/- Rhodes Statue

The 10s. stamp depicts, what is Central Africa’s most majestic mountain— Mlanje. The photograph was taken by Mr. R. L. Kinsey, and includes a gentle foreground of trees and tea plantations. Details Designer: From a photograph by R L Kinsey Printer: Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ltd, New Malden, Surrey, England Process: Recess…

View More Rhodesia & Nyasaland Philately: 1959 Definitive Series – 10/- Mlanje

This stamp depicts the Federation’s cost of arms. The individual territories have two elements from their individual cost of arms and the motto is Motto: “Magni Esse Mercamur” (Let us deserve to be Great). Details Designer:  Printer: Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ltd, New Malden, Surrey, England Process: Recess Paper:  Watermark: None Perf: 11…

View More Rhodesia & Nyasaland Philately: 1959 Definitive Series – £1 Coat of Arms