The London Assurance: First Day Covers – Nyasaland
The London Assurance
First Day Covers – Nyasaland
Nyasaland QEII Definitive Series Booklets Details Date of Issue: 1st January, 1954 Date Withdrawn: Date Invalidated: Designer: Printer: De La Rue & Co., Ltd, London Process: Typographed Paper: Watermark: Multi Script CA Perf: 12 Booklet: 1953 QEII Definitive Series 2/6d – ½d x4, 1d x4, 2d x12 5s – ½d x12, 1d x8, 6d x8, 2d…
Lions International Lions Club of Fort Jameson
Stewarts and Lloyds of South Africa Limited Salisbury In 1898, British Company Lloyds and Lloyds decided to open two branches in South Africa. At the same time, British company A & J Stewart and Menzies was being represented in South Africa by Brown & McKenzie. By 1903, seeing the need to consolidate their South African…
Johnson & Fletcher Ltd. Salisbury
Central News Agency Bulawayo/Salisbury In 1896 two entrepreneurs, Michael Davis and Albert Lindbergh, paired up to sell newspapers in Johannesburg. By coordinating teams of newsboys who delivered papers by foot and on bicycles, the Central News Agency (CNA) was founded. The first newspapers sold were The Star, The Standard and Diggers News. Davis and…
St. John Ambulance St. John Ambulance is the name of over 40 affiliated international organisations which teach and provide first aid and emergency medicine and are primarily staffed by over 500,000 volunteers worldwide. The associations are overseen by the international Order of St John and its priories (national branches). The first such organisation to be founded was the St John Ambulance Association, which was founded…