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Details Series: 1968 New Currency Definitives Subject: Vimbuza Dancer Designer: Gabriel Ellison Printer: Harrison & Sons Ltd. Process: Photogravure Paper:  Watermark: None Perf: 14.5 x 13.5 Gum: Gum Arabic (original printing) Polyvinyl Alcohol (reprint) Cylinders: 1A (Copper), 1A (Deep Blue), 1A (Orange), 1A (Sepia) Sheet: 10 x 10 Quantity: Reprint: 27 October 1970 Cylinders Sheet Numbers

View More Zambia Philately: 1968 New Currency Definitives – 8n Vimbuza Dancer

The Livingstone Museum was established in 1934 as the David Livingstone Memorial Museum (and later the Rhodes-Livingstone Museum). It is the largest and the oldest museum in Zambia, located in Livingstone near Victoria Falls. The Spanish colonial-style building was opened in 1951. Jock Millar, former mayor of Livingstone, requested that…

View More Zambia Philately: 1968 New Currency Definitives – 5n National Museum, Livingstone

Immunisation is the process by which an individual’s immune system becomes fortified against an infectious agent (known as the immunogen). When this system is exposed to molecules that are foreign to the body, called non-self, it will orchestrate an immune response, and it will also develop the ability to quickly…

View More Zambia Philately: 1970 Preventive Medicine – 25n Immunisation

Details Series: International Year For African Tourism Subject: Defassa Waterbuck – Kafue National Park Designer: Gabriel Ellison Printer: Harrison & Sons Ltd., London Process: Photogravure Paper:  Watermark: None Perf: 14.5 x 14 (comb) Cylinders: 1A 1A 1A 1A Sheet: R10 x 5 (50 stamps) Quantity: Sheet Numbers

View More Zambia Philately: 1969 International Year For African Tourism – 10n Defassa Waterbuck

In the 1960’s, tourism was a growing industry in Zambia, especially with the recent construction of the Kariba Dam and Lake Kariba, offering a range of water sports, fishing activities and luxury hotels. Victoria Falls (Mosi-oa-Tunya) tourism had already been established during the 19th Century. Zambia was home to Kafue…

View More Zambia Philately: 1969 International Year For African Tourism – 5n Map of Africa

The General Post of Zambia announces the forthcoming issue of a special postage stamp to commemorate World Meteorological Day 1970. The date of issue will be 23rd March, 1970, the day designated by the World Meteorological Association. The 15 ngwee stamp shows weather satellite Nimbus III in position over the…

View More Zambia Philately: 1970 World Meteorological Day

The General Post Office announces the forthcoming issue of a special postage stamp to commemorate the Summit Conference of Non-Aligned Nations to be opened at Lusaka on 8th September, 1970. The value is 15 ngwee and stamp will be placed on sale on 8th September, 1970. Up to 60 Nations…

View More Zambia Philately: 1970 Summit Conference Non-Aligned Nations

Poling is metallurgical method employed in the purification of copper which contains copper oxide as an impurity and also in the purification of tin which contains tin oxide (stannic oxide or “SnO2”) as an impurity. The impure metal, usually in the form of molten blister copper, is placed in an…

View More Zambia Philately: 1969 50th Anniversary of the ILO – 25n Poling a Furnace

The Zambian copper mining industry began in the 1920s. Consistent private sector-driven investment in the industry over a period of over 50 years in exploration, mine development and operation, development of minerals processing facilities, building of infrastructure for pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical processing, with attendant support facilities, including building of whole…

View More Zambia Philately: 1969 50th Anniversary of the ILO – 3n Copper Miner