“These are found in the wild only in Africa south of the Sahara and in Madagascar. The bird depicted is a Helmeted (or Crowned) Guineafowl, Numida meleagris, common in savannah and woodland throughout Southern Rhodesia. It is not a multicoloured bird, but nevertheless its red patch behind the eye, microscopic…
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Southern Rhodesia Philately: 1964 Definitive Series – 5s Cattle
“This, eventually, became a three-colour subject. The initial drawing, in black and green, was based on transparencies of a large Hereford and a group of cattle. The golden-dun Tuli cattle on the stamp represent the second attempt to portray the Rhodesian beef industry which is expanding rapidly to meet growing…
View More Southern Rhodesia Philately: 1964 Definitive Series – 5s CattleSouthern Rhodesia Philately: 1964 Definitive Series – 2/6d Tiger Fish
“Hold that tiger” becomes less of a catch-phrase and more of a necessity to the anglers of the Zambezi and Lake Kariba, where Hydrocyon vittatiis or “Lively water dog” has its haunts. The stamp picture, satisfactorily confined to two colours when it was thought three or more would be necessary,…
View More Southern Rhodesia Philately: 1964 Definitive Series – 2/6d Tiger FishSouthern Rhodesia Philately: 1964 Definitive Series – 2s Lake Kyle
“Another magazine picture, with emphasis on the lake waters and the undeveloped (foreground) verge requested of the artist, was the basic source. The latter made a suitable background for Whiteley’s cased letters, showing the advantage of this “see-through” technique. The stamp shows an amazing variety of tones derived from the…
View More Southern Rhodesia Philately: 1964 Definitive Series – 2s Lake KyleSouthern Rhodesia Philately: 1964 Definitive Series – 6d Flame Lily
Another transparency was the source of this picture of Rhodesia’s unofficial floral emblem, the flame lily, also known as the Turk’s Cap or gloriosa lily. Originally rendered in two colours, a third colour, yellow, was found necessary and a background similar to that of the Fiji 8d. “Hibiscus” stamp (now…
View More Southern Rhodesia Philately: 1964 Definitive Series – 6d Flame LilySouthern Rhodesia Philately: Packaging and Printing Industries (Pvt) Ltd (Type IIID)
Details Publisher: Distributor: Printer: Packaging and Printing Industries (Pvt) Ltd Process: Photographer: Year: 1964 Series: From the Victoria Falls Hotel, Southern Rhodesia (Type IIID)
View More Southern Rhodesia Philately: Packaging and Printing Industries (Pvt) Ltd (Type IIID)Southern Rhodesia Philately: R A Bourlay (Bardwell – Type II)
Details Publisher: R. A. Bourlay, Greendale, Southern Rhodesia Distributor: Printer: Bardwell Process: Photographer: Year: 1964 Series: Veld Life (Type II)
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Postcards Bardwell Type II
View More Southern Rhodesia Philately: R A BourlaySouthern Rhodesia Philately: Lake Kyle
Lake Kyle lies in south eastern Rhodesia. It is thought to have been named after Kyle Farm which occupied most of the land required for the lake, which in turn was named after the Kyle district in Scotland from which the pioneer of the Lowveld, Tom Murray MacDougall came originally.…
View More Southern Rhodesia Philately: Lake KyleSouthern Rhodesia Philately: Packaging and Printing Industries (Pvt) Ltd
Packaging and Printing Industries (Pvt) Ltd were established around c1961. They were located in Bulawayo and Salisbury. Postcards Type IIID – From the Victoria Falls Hotel, Southern Rhodesia
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