Postcards: Focus Limited – Type I
Focus Limited
Type I
| No.s | Description | Earliest PMK Date |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | The Pasi Dam, Gatooma, Southern Rhodesia |
First Regular Mail Service to Hong Kong 14 March 1936 On the 14th March, 1936, Imperial Airways inaugurated its mail route from London to Hong Kong. Mail from central Africa joined the flight at Cairo. Mail arrived at Penang on 23rd March as part of the Imperial Airways London-Australia route and was then flown to Hong…
E. T. Brown Type V – Gordon Ave – Salisbury – Southern Rhodesia
Percy Missen Clark (1875-1937) Percy Missen Clark (b.1875) arrived from Cambridge, England in Rhodesia during the Boer War where he met Rhodes during his stay in Bulawayo. During this stay in Bulawayo he shared lodgings with another well-known publisher of Rhodesian postcards – Ellis Allen. Clark established the first curio, or souvenir, shop, Clark’s Curios,…
Gevaert Type IC This type has Wesson’s Camera Shop stamped along the divider. FB
Universities’ Mission to Central Africa Pictorial Post Card III
National Gallery of Rhodesia Salisbury The National Gallery of Rhodesia was initially planned in the 1930s, but the outbreak of the Second World War impeded the colonial government’s involvement in its progress. However, the idea was given new life when in 1943, Sir James McDonald, a friend and colleague of Cecil John Rhodes, left a…