Category: Southern Rhodesia

Packaging and Printing Industries (Pvt) Ltd were established around c1961. They were located in Bulawayo and Salisbury. Postcards Type III Type IIID – From the Victoria Falls Hotel, Southern Rhodesia

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Art Flooring Co. (Pvt) Ltd was located in Workington. The office was located on the corner of Portland Road and Darwin Road, with the store and factory on Portland Road. The company was a flooring specialist business that owned a parquet factory and were the sole distribtuors of B.W. Swiss…

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A W Bardwell & Co (Pvt.) Ltd. were located on the corner of Baker Avenue & Rezende Street, Salisbury established c.1959. It was established by Arch Bardwell who arrived in Rhodesia in 1906. The business provided die-stamped and lithography printing services that included bookbinding. They also produced stationery including rulers.…

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The stamp shows an image of the Balancing Rocks – a structure of granite rocks that have come about following the erosion of the African Plain. These Balancing rocks are at Epworth Mission near Salisbury. Details Designer: From a photograph by Ronald D K Hadden (Department of Public Relations) Printer:…

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Details Subject: Flame Lily Designer:  Printer: Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ltd, New Malden, Surrey, England Process: Recess (vignette typographed) Paper:  Watermark: None Perf: 14 x 13.5 (comb) Plates: None. Printed in panes of two, separated by vertical gutter, and guillotined through gutter. Sheet: R10 x 6 (60) Quantity:  600,000 (ordered) 1,139,043 (sold) Sheet Numbers Maximum…

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Details Subject: Lion Designer:  Printer: Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ltd, New Malden, Surrey, England Process: Recess Paper:  Watermark: None Perf: 14 x 13.5 (comb) Plates: None Sheet: R10 x 6 (60) Quantity: Printed in panes of two, separated by vertical gutter, and guillotined through gutter. 180,000 (ordered) 49,625 (sold) Sheet Numbers Maximum Cards (Unofficial) References Rhodesian Study Circle:…

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Details Designer:  Printer: Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ltd, New Malden, Surrey, England Process: Recess Paper:  Watermark: None Perf: 14 x 13.5 (comb) Plates: None. Printed in panes of two, separated by vertical gutter, and guillotined through gutter. Sheet: R10 x 6 (60 stamps) Quantity: 750,000 (ordered) 580,248 (sold) Sheet Numbers References Rhodesian Study Circle: 1953 QEII…

View More Southern Rhodesia Philately: 1953 Definitive Series – 3d Farm Worker

Details Designer:  Printer: Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ltd, New Malden, Surrey, England Process: Recess Paper:  Watermark: None Perf: 13.5 x 14 (comb) Plates: None. Printed in panes of two, separated by horizontal gutter, and guillotined through gutter. Sheet: R6 x 10 (60 stamps) Quantity: 90,000 (ordered) 98,394 (sold) Sheet Numbers References Rhodesian…

View More Southern Rhodesia Philately: 1953 Definitive Series – 5s Basket Maker

The 6d stamp is based on a 1952 publicity still of a Baobab Tree that grew on the foothills of Mutemwa hill – a massive rounded granite outcrop near Mutoko village, adjacent to the Tere Ruins. Details Subject: Baobab Tree Designer:  Printer: Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ltd, New Malden, Surrey, England…

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Kariba Gorge was located on the Zambezi that would by 1960 have had a dam constructed across to provide the world’s largest man made dam. Details Subject: Kariba Gorge Designer: From a photograph by Ronald D K Hadden (Department of Public Relations) Printer: Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ltd, New Malden,…

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