PTC: Philatelic Bureau – Bulletin No.2 of 1971
Philatelic Bureau Bulletin
No.2 of 1971
The Jameson Hotel Type III FB
Rhodes Day 9 July 1979 Rhodes Day was one of the original Rhodesian holidays designated by The Bills of Exchange Regulations, 1895. The holiday commemorated Cecil J Rhodes’s birthday (5 July 1853) and fell on the first or second Monday in July to create the four-day ‘Rhodes and Founders’ weekend.’ Commemorative Covers Den of Antiquity…
Shell Rhodesia (PVT) Ltd Shell Rhodesia (PVT) Ltd was controlled by Shell Petroleum Company, Ltd. and Bataafse Petroleum Maatschappij NV (now Shell Petroleum, NV) Netherlands. With the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI), sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council on Rhodesia on 16th December, 1966 (extended in 1968 to a total economic boycott) saw oil directed…
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…
R A Bourlay Art – Type 3B (PS Series) This type has a break between the description and the imprint. FB