Postmarks: 1951 – Nyasaland Diamond Jubilee Exhibition

Postmarks

1951 – Nyasaland Diamond Jubilee Exhibition

The Nyasaland Postal Department provided facilities at the 1951 Nyasaland Diamond Jubilee Exhibition for sending commemorative covers stamped with Diamond Jubilee stamps.

The covers were stamped with the original ‘Chiromo’ barred-circle obliterator (the first obliterator used in Nyasaland). The mail was then dispatched to the Blantyre Post Office by a messenger dressed in a uniform similar to that worn by the mail-carrier in the early days.

Nodder and Twynam believe that the obliterator was actually an ‘O’ with a nick made to produce the ‘C’.

A special postmark was also used as part of the associated stamp release.

Commemorative Covers

• 1951 – Nyasaland Diamond Jubilee Exhibition

References

• The Journal of the Rhodesian Study Circle No.178
• The Nyasaland Journal Vol.4 No.2 1951