| F817 |
½d, 1d and 2d booklet panes of six for each value, left margin attached. Superb unmounted. SG 1-3 booklet panes |
£8 |
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| F799 |
1954 QEII 1d QEII, two examples plus 6d on piece, left example showing TWO pre-printing paper creases running through, the lower strong and both now flattened out. Used on piece cancelled 'UMTALI'. Somewhat grubby but highly unusual. SG 7, 2 and var. |
£275 |
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| F795 |
1956 QEII 2½d, upper marginal block of 12 showing curious thread-like printing interruption running vertically through the central column. Minor crease in margin just into upper right stamp, very fine unmounted. Most unusual. SG 3a and vars. |
£225 |
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| F813 |
1954 QEII 2/6, block of six. Very fine used. SG 12 |
£12 |
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| F814 |
1954 QEII 5/-, left marginal block of four. Very fine used. SG 13 |
£25 |
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| F807 |
1954 QEII £1, lower marginal block of four showing imprint in margin. Light datestamps, attractive and most unusual. SG 15 |
£135 |
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| F812 |
1960 (4th March), long printed 'O.H.M.S.' envelope, bearing QEII 1/- grey-black (SG 9), cancelled 'LUVEVE / S. RHODESIA' datestamp, addressed to Causeway. Sent registered with registered label appropriately hand stamped, and further struck with green oval 'SUPERINTENDENT / NATIVE DEPT LUVEVE / NATIVE VILLAGE SETTLEMENT' cachet. |
£30 |
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| F806 |
1962 27th February, blue envelope bearing QEII 1/- and 5/- definitives, plus 2/6 Airmail (SG 25, 29, 42, 8/6d rate), cancelled 'SHIWA NGANDU' datestamp, registered label alongside with manuscript endorsement, sent airmail to Colonel R. F. Gore-Browne, England. Folded at right and some light faults, still an extraordinary item, presumably sent to a member of his family.
Note: Sir Stewart Gore-Browne returned to Northern Rhodesia in 1920 after a period surveying the border between there and Belgian Congo. His wish was to establish an estate in Africa, which he found at Shiwa Ngandu. His extraordinary life was told in The Africa House by Christina Lamb. He played a part in the political development of the country, and finally died in 1967.
'By the late 1950s Shiwa Ng'andu epitomised everything Sir Stewart represented – orderly, neat, precise. For years it had been an oasis for travellers on the Great North Road, a place where hospitality had never been refused; and this little bit of England in Africa never ceased to impress its visitors. |
£250 |
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| F808 |
1960 Kariba, complete set of six blocks of four. Each cancelled with special oval crested 'ROYAL VISIT / 17 MAY 1960 / KARIBA' datestamps. SG 32-37 |
£70 |
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| F815 |
1960 Kariba 5/-, 'seagull' flaw (constant, row 8/4 right pane), stamp 3/1 in a right marginal vertical block of eight. Superb unmounted. Extremely scarce in this positional multiple (by printer's guide cross in margin). SG 37 and var. |
£345 |
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| F809 |
1962 Airmail, set lower left corner blocks of four showing running sheet numbers in margins, in addition the 2/6 showing Extra landing light flaw (row 9/2, cylinder B). Hinged on margins stamps superb unmounted. SG 40-42, 42a |
£60 |
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| F810 |
1963 Red Cross 3d, lower right corner cylinder ‘1A’ block of six, showing distinct lighter impression of left four stamps, then a clear line of normal impression through the right vertical pair. Superb unmounted. SG 47 var. |
£60 |
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| F811 |
1963 Red Cross 3d, left marginal block of 12 showing interrupted printing line running vertically through central column, distorting the images to the left. Superb unmounted. SG 47 and vars. |
£95 |
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| F816 |
1963 YMSC 6d, lower right corner cylinder '1A' block of four, showing dramatic down and leftwards shift of black printing. Minor marginal faults, stamps very fine unmounted. DRAMATIC AND RARE this strong, and no doubt unique as such. SG 48 vars.
Note: the progressive nature of the shift may well indicate that the most pronounced size of the shifts may well be at the base of the sheet, and by the slight slant, at this right corner |
£1,000 |
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| F798 |
1959 ‘POSTAGE DUE’ handstamp in violet. Ex. the Bridger & Kay sheet with their handstamp on reverse, positions noted as 147. Superb unmounted. SG unlisted (see footnote) |
£325 |
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| F796 |
1959 'POSTAGE DUE’ handstamp on 1d QE definitive, diagonally in violet. On piece very fine used cancelled with part correct ‘DELIVERY ROOM’ datestamp. Very scarce, apparently 26 examples off cover recorded. BPA certificate (1989). see SG footnote |
£850 |
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| F797 |
1959 'POSTAGE DUE’ handstamp on 1d QE definitive, diagonally in violet READING DOWN. Very fine used cancelled with part correct ‘DELIVERY ROOM’ datestamp. APPARENTLY THE SOLE RECORDED EXAMPLE. see SG footnote |
£1,350 |
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