Gem Mine
Gem Mine Hartley District – Southern Rhodesia Date: 27.03.1912 – 31.12.1912 Type: Postal agency under Hartley Postmarks References Postal History of Southern Rhodesia
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Gath’s Mine
Gath’s Mine Victoria District The claims for Gath’s Mine was originally pegged by J W Gath 28 June 1907 and were the first pegging for asbestos in the Mashaba area. Between 1907 and 1908, the ownership moved between: Forbes Rhodesian Syndicate Ltd T.H.S. Syndicate Ltd Rhodesian Asbestos Co Ltd From as early as 1908,…
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Eldorado Mine
Eldorado Mine Lomagundi District – Southern Rhodesia Date: 18.02.1907 – 1920 Type: Postal agency under Sinoa Departmental office (01.01.1909 – 31.07.1909) Service: Runners to Banket Junction Rail (06.03.1911) Notes: Changed it’s name to Eldorado (1920-21) Office destroyed by fire (28.12.1930) Postmarks References Postal History of Southern Rhodesia The Journal of the Rhodesian Study Circle No.47 – W.G. Nodder…
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1975 – Victoria Falls Bridge Constitutional Conference
Victoria Falls Bridge Constitutional Conference 25 August 1975 The Victoria Falls Conference took place aboard a South African Railways train halfway across the Victoria Falls Bridge on the border between the unrecognised state of Rhodesia and Zambia. It was the culmination of the “détente” policy introduced and championed by B. J. Vorster, the Prime Minister of…
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Postmark – Salisbury
Salisbury Reference: The Collector’s Guide to the Postage Stamps of the Republic of Zimbabwe – M J Amos