Art Craft: First Day Covers – Southern Rhodesia
Art Craft
First Day Covers – Southern Rhodesia
Albert Spear Hitchcock 1865-1935 Albert Spear Hitchcock (b.September 4, 1865) was an American botanist and agrostologist. Hitchcock graduated from the Iowa Agricultural College with bachelor’s degree in 1884 and M.S. in 1886. From 1892 to 1901 he was a professor of botany at the Kansas Agricultural College. Hitchcock joined the United States Department of Agriculture in…
Payne’s Studios Ltd Bulawayo Edwin ‘Ted’ A. Payne was the first regular newsreel cameraman in South Africa. His weekly ‘Payne’s Mirror’ first appeared in 1912, a year before the first ‘African Mirror.’ He originally had a photographic studio in Long St, Cape Town which he later transferred to No. 77E Main Street (East), Bulawayo, Southern…
C. W. George First Day Covers – Nyasaland 1949 – 75th Anniversary of the U.P.U.
Arthur Merlin Climenhaga (1916–2005) Arthur Merlin Climenhaga was born to Rev. John and Emma (Smith) Climenhaga in February 1916. His grandfather was founder of Messiah College, Pennsylvania. He received his Bachelor of Sacred Literature Beulah (later Upland) College 1936, his M.A. from Taylor University in 1938. In the same year he married Arlene Brubaker. In…
Christmas Malawi Details Date of Issue: 6th November, 1968 Designer: Perf: Stamps: 14 x 14.5 MS: 14 x 13.5 (sideways on 4d) Watermark: Cockerels Printer: Harrison & Sons Ltd, London Print Type: Photogravure First Day Covers Maxim Cards
Postage Paid Belmont