Rhodesia Philately: 1970 Second Definitive Issue – 3½c Commerce

Commerce is symbolized in this stamp by a complex of buildings with a statue of the Founder, Cecil John Rhodes, in the foreground. The first government in Rhodesia was provided by a commercial organisation, the British South Africa Company, and Rhodesia’s modern history can be said to date from 1899 when, in a commercial transaction, Rhodes signed a contract with Major Frank Johnson for £90,000 to bring the Pioneer Column into what is now Mashonaland to take up the concession granted by Lobengula, King of the Matabele.

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 (Magenta) 1A (Cyan) 1A (Yellow)
    • 1B (Black) 1B (Magenta) 1B (Cyan) 1B (Yellow)
  • Sheet: 10 x 10 (100)
  • Quantity:
    • 1st Printing – 6,010,000 (Sheet No. 001-30,500)
    • 2nd Printing – 2,000,000 (Sheet No. 30,501-41,050)
    • 3rd Printing – 1,910,000 (Sheet No. 41,051-49,600)
    • 4th Printing – 3,000,000 (Sheet No. 49,601-64,600)
  • Reprints:
    • 15 July 1971 (2nd Printing)
    • 8 November 1971 (3rd Printing)
    • 27 March 1972 (4th Printing)
Sheet Numbers (1st Printing)
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