J Block: First Day Covers – Southern Rhodesia
J Block
First Day Covers – Southern Rhodesia
Shoesmith & Etheridge Ltd Hastings, U.K. Albert George Barrett Shoesmith (1876-1957) was the son of George Shoesmith, a grocer’s assistant. In 1899, Albert married Rosina Osborne and had become a jeweller’s assistant. In 1908 Pike’s Hastings Directory reported that he was Manager of the Sussex Post Card Co. and by 1909 was publishing real photographic…
Gregory Salzman Ltd. Salisbury Gregory Salzman Ltd was a British owned tobacco merchant company. It was purchased by Rhodesian tobacco farmers Anthony Charles Blair Taberer and his father, Tony Taberer during the 1960’s and became Tabex. Contributors James Gavin Walter Herdzik FB
Southern Rhodesia Government Stationery Office – 158/52/S E.3 E.9 Details Date of Issue: 13 May 1952 Dept: Government Stationery Office Reqn.: 158/52/S Printer: E.3 – J D & Co E.9 – P A & Co Paper: Quantity: E.3 – 50,000 E.9 – 50,000 FB
Percy M Clark General Series VD FB
Roman Catholic Church Brunapeg Mission The Roman Catholic Church established Brunapeg Mission in 1954. The mission is located in rural Zimbabwe near the Botswana border, in Mangwe District, Matabeleland South Province, approximately 70 miles south of Plumtree. Brunapeg is site of St. Anne’s (Brunapeg) Mission Hospital. The hospital includes a nursing school – St Anne’s…
G.W. Wilson & Co., Ltd The G.W.W. Series FB