Selfridges: First Day Covers – Southern Rhodesia
Selfridges
First Day Covers – Southern Rhodesia
Victory Southern Rhodesia Production Details Waterlow & Sons Ltd – Victory (SR) Details Date of Issue: 8th May, 1947 Designer: Perf: Line 14 Printer: Waterlow & Sons Ltd., London Wall, London E.C. Varieties 1d Long imprint (with imprint between margin). Appears on Sheet C & D. 2d Double Print (one print Albino). Damaged Frame. (R1/10) 3d Line…
Arlen Raymond Mather 1888-1956 Arlen R. Mather was born July 1888 in Indiana. He graduated from Franklin College in 1910 and later did postgraduate work at the University of Chicago. He married fellow Franklin College graduate, Miss Faye Moore Smith, in 1914. The Mathers served as missionaries in Southern Rhodesia with the American Board Mission…
George VI Coronation The coronation of George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon as King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth and as Emperor and Empress of India took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on 12 May 1937. George VI ascended the throne upon the abdication of his brother, Edward VIII, on 11 December 1936, three days before his 41st birthday. Edward’s coronation had been planned for 12th May 1937 and…
Christmas Rhodesia Details Date of Issue: 16th November, 1977 Designer: Dianne Deudney Perf: 14.5 Printer: Mardon Printers (PVT) Ltd., Salisbury, Rhodesia Process: Offset Lithography Sheet Value: 3c – $1.50 6c – $3.00 8c – $4.00 16c – $8.00 Cylinders: 1A 1A 1A 1A 1B 1B 1B 1B Quantity: 3c – 4,000,000 6c – 1,000,000 8c – 750,000 16c…
E. T. Brown Type V – Subject – Victoria Falls – Southern Rhodesia
Dutch Reformed Church Zimuto Mission African evangelist from the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) first entered the area of what would become Zimuto Mission in the 1870-80’s, but it was the Berlin Missionary Society (BMS) that opened Zimuto Mission in 1904, 15-20 km north of Fort Victoria (Masvingo). BMS transferred control of Zimuto to the DRC…