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Postcards: Blantyre Printing & Publishing Co Ltd – Type I

Blantyre Printing & Publishing Co Ltd

Type I

: P74573

: P74574

: P74756

: P74759

: P74581

No.s	Description	Earliest PMK Date
P74573	Palm Beach Malawi.
P74574	Wayside Chat (Cholo) Malawi
P74576	Weeding ground nuts at Nasawa, Malawi	13/06/1976
P74579	In a Malawi Village (Preparing of the market)	29/12/1967
P74581	Mlanje Mountain and Tea Estate, Malawi.
	Market Day in Malawi.	30/07/1969
	War Memorial - Zomba.	14/07/1976

Blantyre Printing & Publishing Co Ltd

Blantyre

The Blantyre Printing & Publishing Co Ltd was originally established in 1895, largely through the efforts of R S Hynde, a Scotsman with teaching experience at Domasi, Zomba. The company shared printing with the Blantyre Mission Press.

The company closed in 1907 but was resurrected after independence in 1964 to become a sophisticated printing and publishing company with subsidiary companies such as Times Bookshop Ltd and Blantyre Periodicals Ltd.

The business is now known as Blantyre Printing and Packaging Co Ltd.

Postcards

Type I
Type II
Type IIA

References

The Society of Malawi Journal Vol 31 No.2, July 1978

Postcards: The Central Bookshop – Type I

The Central Bookshop

Type I

No.s	Description	Earliest PMK Date
N/A	Basket Maker - Lower Shire Malawi.	14/04/1990
N/A	Beautiful People Mother and Child.	29/03/1984
N/A	Bringing in the catch - Lake Malawi.	05/08/1985
N/A	Cormorants at Liwonde National Park	24.11.1993
N/A	Dugouts, Lake Malawi.	08/10/1986
N/A	Lake Malawi, end of day.
N/A	Market Scene in Malawi.	25/03/1991
N/A	Nkudzi Bay, Lake Malawi
N/A	Playing traditional Bao game - Malawi.
N/A	Railway Stop - Malawi.	31/07/1985
N/A	Railway stop - Malawi.	31/07/1985
N/A	Tea Pickers - Mulanje, Malawi.	10/07/1988
N/A	Tea Plantation at the foot of Mulanje Mountain, Malawi.
N/A	Tea Plantation near Mulanje Mountain.
N/A	View from the Thuchila Plateau, Malawi.
N/A	View over Chancellor College, Malawi.	14/06/1990

The Central Bookshop

Blantyre

Postcards

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1989 – Christmas 1989

Details

Date of Issue: 15th December, 1989
Date Withdrawn:
Date Invalidated:
Designer: Harrison & Sons Ltd
Printer: Harrison & Sons Ltd
Process: Lithographed
Paper:
Watermark: N/A
Perf: 14
Cylinders:
- 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A
- 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B
- 1C 1C 1C 1C 1C
- 1D 1D 1D 1D 1D
Sheet:
Booklet: N/A
Quantity:

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