Category: Rhodesia

Details Publisher:  Distributor:  Printer: Process: Photographer:  Year: 1977 Series: Cutty Sark Hotel (Type I)

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This stamp depicts one of the most well known of Rhodesian Bridges — the Birchenough Bridge which crosses the Sabi River 71 miles from Umtali on the road to Fort Victoria. It was a gift to the people of Southern Rhodesia from the Beit Trust and was named after the…

View More Rhodesia Philately: 1969 Bridges of Rhodesia – 2/6d Birchenough Bridge

The subject of this stamp is the bridge over the Mpudzi River 26 miles from Umtali on the Umtali-Birchenough road. The single 100-foot span which rises 40 feet from the river is an open spandrel twin-rib arch with a trestle approach. The bridge has a double carriageway and an overall…

View More Rhodesia Philately: 1969 Bridges of Rhodesia – 9d Mpudzi Bridge

This stamp shows a low-level bridge or causeway. The majority of these bridges were built between 1926 and 1933 in an endeavour to improve Rhodesia’s road communications at a low cost. Grants from the Beit Trust provided some £106,336 for their construction. Although under water at times during a particularly…

View More Rhodesia Philately: 1969 Bridges of Rhodesia – 3d Low Level Bridge

In Rhodesia’s early days money and. building materials were scarce and travellers whose means of transport was the coach and ox waggon had to be content with crossing rivers at their narrowest and shallowest points, all very well in the dry months of the year, but practically impossible during the…

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Details Publisher: R. A. Bourlay, Greendale, Rhodesia Distributor: Printer: Art Process: Photographer: R. A. Bourlay, Greendale, Rhodesia Year: 1969 Series: Veld Life PS Series

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Details Publisher: Big Game Photography (Pvt.) Ltd. Distributor: Printer: Big Game Photography (Pvt.) Ltd., Salisbury Process: Photographer: Year: 1969 Series: Z1 (Zebra)

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Art Printers Ltd were located on Stanley Road, Salisbury and the printing factory on Lytton Road. The company specialised in printing and packaging. The company appears to have been related to Art Printing Works Ltd, being established c.1969. Postcards R A Bourlay References Braby’s Commercial Directory of South, East and…

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Details Publisher: R. A. Bourlay, Greendale, Southern Rhodesia Distributor: Printer: Art Printers Ltd., Salisbury Process: Photographer: R. A. Bourlay, Greendale, Southern Rhodesia Year: 1969 Series: Veld Life PA Series

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This denomination depicts the equestrian figure of Allan Wilson. The illustration is taken from the frieze of the memorial to the Shangani Patrol and its leader Allan Wilson, all of whom were annihilated in an heroic engagement during the Matabele War of 1893. The memorial is situated in the Matopos…

View More Rhodesia Philately: 1968 Matabeleland (1893-1968) – 1/6d Allan Wilson