Details
- Date of Issue: 24 October 1964
- Reprintings:
- 26 October 1965 (4d)
- 3 January 1966 (2d)
- 24 August 1966 (½d, 2d & 4d)
- 24 February 1967 (3d, 6d, 9d, 1/-, 1/3d, 2/-, 2/6d, 10/-, £1)
- Date Withdrawn: 15 January 1968 (Statutory Instrument No.6 of 1968)
- Date Invalidated: 30 April 1968 (Statutory Instrument No.49 of 1968)
- Designer: Gabriel Ellison
- Printer: Harrison & Sons Ltd.
- Process: Photogravure
- Paper:
- Watermark: None
- Perf:
- 14.5 comb (½d, 1d, 2d, 3d, 4d)
- 13.5 x 14.5 (6d, 9d, 1/-, 2/6d, 5/-, 10/-)
- 14.5 x 13.5 (1/3d, 2/- & £1)
- Cylinders:
- 1A x 2 (3d, 2/6d & 10s)
- 1A x 3 (½d, 1d, 2d, 4d, 6d, 9d, 1/- & 5/-)
- 1A x 4 (1/3d, 2/-, £1)
- 1B x 2 (3d)
- 1B x 3 (1d)
- Sheet:
- R12 x 10 (½d, 4d)
- R10 x 12 (1d, 2d, 3d)
- R6 x 10 (6d, 9d, 1/-, 2/6d, 5/-, 10/-)
- R10 x 6 (1/3d, 2/- & £1)
- Coil – ½d
- Coil – 1d
- Quantity:
Subjects
- ½d – Maize
- 1d – Health
- 2d – Chinyau Dancer
- 3d – Cotton
- 4d – Angoni Bull
- 6d – Communications Old & New
- 9d – Zambezi Redwood
- 1s – Fishing
- 1/3d – Tobacco
- 2s – Tonga Basket Maker
- 2/6d – Luangwa Game Reserve
- 5s – Education
- 10s – Copper Mining
- £1 – Makishi Dancer
Zambia National Archives
The Zambia National Archives contained a copy of the following:
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- A complete sheet of each value, each numbered 001 (the 1d & 3d are from cylinders 1B)
- A complete set of imperforate proofs individually mounted on presentation cards
- Similar additional copies of the proofs as follows:
- 2d (slightly paler colours)
- 1/3d (paler features and headscarf)
- 2/- (paler features and inscribed “not approved, 25.08.64”)
- 2/6d
- 10/- (pale grey-black and orange, and inscribed “not approved 31.8.64)
- A set of three colour slides of the accepted designs of the 1d, 3d to 2/- & 10/- values differing from the final stamps in that the word “POSTAGE” is not incorporated, and that the lettering on the larger format designs is in black. (The lettering of the 6d design reads “EDUCATION”).
