Suburban Stamp Co.: First Day Covers – Northern Rhodesia
Suburban Stamp Co.
First Day Covers – Northern Rhodesia
International Red Locust Control Service Abercorn The International Red Locust Control Service (IRLCS) was established by an international convention on 22nd February, 1949. The formation of IRLCS was partly a result of nearly 15 years’ work to identify sources of Red Locust (Nomadacris septemfasciata Serville) plagues and to prevent their re-occurrence. A plague of Red Locusts,…
Christmas Mail Experimental Flight 9 – 21 December 1931 On the 30th November, 1931, the British Post Office announced there would be a special Christmas flight from London to Cape Town. Imperial Airways Ltd left London on 9th December, arriving in Cape Town 21 December. Mail was forwarded to England via the Union Castle Line….
African Collector’s Exchange First Day Covers – Northern Rhodesia 1946 – Victory Issue
J Block First Day Covers – Southern Rhodesia
Halsted & Co Ltd Bulawayo The first Halsted trading business was opened in Bulawayo in 1897 by Major C W Halsted under the name of Halsted and Webb. With the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer war in 1899, Major Halsted closed that business and spent the next 3 years fighting with the British forces. At the…
Seventh-Day Adventist Church Northern Rhodesia Mission Field The Northern Rhodesian Mission Field was organised in 1921. The territory covered Northern Rhodesia and the Caprivi Strip (a salient of Namibia that protrudes eastward for about 450 km from the north-eastern corner of Namibia. It is bordered by Botswana to the south, and by Angola and Zambia…