Category: Rhodesia

Details Publisher: Big Game Photography (Pvt.) Ltd. Distributor: Printer: Big Game Photography (Pvt.) Ltd., Salisbury Process: Photographer: Year: 1971 Series: B6 (Buffalo)

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Sun-Tours-Africa were run in association with Camera Africa Safaris and located at 3 Parkway, Victoria Falls. In 1971, it was announced that Southern Sun Hotel Corporation were introducing package tours for South Africans to visit Rhodesia. Although there is no direct connection to the hotel corporation, it appears the tours…

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Mother Patrick Mary Anne Cosgrave (22 May 1863 – 31 July 1900) was an Irish Dominican nun, pioneer nurse in Rhodesia, educationist, and prioress. In Salisbury, Cosgrave organised the first hospital, which was located in a series of grass huts and tents before a purpose-built hospital was built in 1895. She…

View More Rhodesia Philately: 1970 No.4 in the Famous Figures Series – Mother Patrick

Kyle View Chalets was a caravan and camping park located on the shores of Lake Kyle. It was owned by Mrs Chris van Rooyen. Postcards T R Blackmore & Co (Pvt.) Ltd (Kyle View Chalets) References Camper’s digest (1974) – Erwin A Bauer & Peggy Bauer

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Details Publisher: Big Game Photography (Pvt.) Ltd. P.O. Box 220, Salisbury, Rhodesia. Telephone 22200 Distributor: Printer: Process: Photographer: Big Game Photography (Pvt.) Ltd. P.O. Box 220, Salisbury, Rhodesia. Telephone 22200 Year: 1971 Series: U Series (Umtali)

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Details Publisher: Big Game Photography (Pvt.) Ltd. P.O. Box 220, Salisbury, Rhodesia. Telephone 22200 Distributor: Printer: Process: Photographer: Big Game Photography (Pvt.) Ltd. P.O. Box 220, Salisbury, Rhodesia. Telephone 22200 Year: 1971 Series: V Series (Victoria Falls)  

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Modern telecommunications equipment is the subject of this stamp. Rhodesia was the first country in Africa, and one of the first six in the world, to have subscriber trunk dialling facilities when equipment, designed and built by post office engineers, was introduced to the public system in March, 1954. Details…

View More Rhodesia Philately: 1970 Inauguration of the Posts & Telecommunications Corporation – 25c Telephone Exchange

As the railway pushed northwards so too did the first telegraph line. This followed a route from Mafeking to Palapye and on to Macloutsie, where it then followed the same route taken by the pioneer column to reach Salisbury. The stamp shows a typical construction party of the time. Details…

View More Rhodesia Philately: 1970 Inauguration of the Posts & Telecommunications Corporation – 15c Telegraph Line

The contrasting stamp illustrates the loading of mails at Salisbury’s international airport. This airport, with one of the longest runways in the world, can accommodate any of the great modern aircraft now in service. Extensive use is made of the facilities available for the conveyance of mails by air to,…

View More Rhodesia Philately: 1970 Inauguration of the Posts & Telecommunications Corporation – 3½c International Airport

Less than a hundred years ago the first postal services followed closely on the heels of the pioneer column sent by Rhodes to occupy Mashonaland. The mails were carried by relays of despatch riders of the British South Africa Company’s Police. The 2½c stamp depicts a despatch rider of the…

View More Rhodesia Philately: 1970 Inauguration of the Posts & Telecommunications Corporation – 2½c Despatch Rider