Power, the life blood of all development, is featured on this stamp, which shows the great Kariba Dam. This is one of the world’s finest technological achievements. From its enormous transformer and generator halls spreads a vast network of more than 9,500 miles of power lines. The double-curvature concrete arch dam, 420 feet high and 2,025 feet long, carries a 40-feet-wide road along its crest. There are six massive flood-gates to control the flow from the 170-mile-long and 20-mile-wide man-made lake.
Details
- Designer: Rose Martin
- Printer: Mardon Printers (Pvt.) Ltd., Salisbury, Rhodesia
- Process: Lithography
- Paper: Chromo with brown gum
- Watermark: None
- Perf: 14.5 (comb)
- Cylinders:
- 1A (Black) 1A (Cyan) 1A (Magenta) 1A (Yellow)
- 1B (Black) 1B (Cyan) 1B (Magenta) 1B (Yellow)
- Sheet: 10 x 5 (50)
- Quantity:
- 1st Printing – 2,800,000 (No.001-28,000)
- 2nd Printing – 200,000 (No.28,001-30,000)
- Reprints:
- 1 January 1973 (2nd Printing)
Sheet Numbers (1st Printing)
Sheet Numbers (2nd Printing)
