Clark’s Curios: First Day Covers – Southern Rhodesia
Clark’s Curios
First Day Covers – Southern Rhodesia
Haim Galante 1890-1980 Haim Galante was an Italian Jew from Rhodes Island, Greece. In 1913, Isaac Simon Benveniste, who had established a furniture trade in Gatooma after he arrived in 1908, offered Galante and his friend Jacques Nissim Alhadeff a post in his furniture business in Chakari. Another trader, Behor Leon established himself at…
Southern Rhodesia The Pensions Office Stationery
Revenue Stamps of Rhodesia Sandy Jardine Download: Revenue Stamps of Rhodesia – Sandy Jardine (pdf) References www.revenuesociety.org.uk.
The South African Timber Co Ltd Kitwe
Lennon Limited Bulawayo/Salisbury Barry Grey Lennon, an Irish chemist and nephew of the Governor of Cape of Good Hope, Sir George Grey, settled in Cape of Good Hope on suggestion of his uncle. In 1850 he opened a chemist and druggist in Port Elizabeth as B. G. Lennon and Co. Ltd. Their shops were to be found…
Counsell’s Lusaka Hotel Ltd Lusaka In 1914, Canadian Couple Mr.& Mrs. Councell’s, registered the Counsell’s Lusaka Hotel. The Councell’s family seized the opportunity in the hospitality business due to the economic boom in Lusaka emanating from the opening up of the first hospital built south of Villa Elizabetta in 1918. In the same year the financial sector saw…