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Auction: 15022 - Northern Rhodesia, The Award-Winning Collection formed by Neville Polakow, FRPSL, RDPSA
Lot: 120

(x) Northern Rhodesia
Postage Dues
1953 Mkushi Provisional Issue
In July 1953, postal rates within the South African Postal Union were increased. Many post offices in Northern Rhodesia experienced shortages of Postage Due stamps. Owing to a misunderstanding, quantities of 1d. Definitive stamps and of the 1953 Rhodes Birth Centenary 1d. stamps were overprinted and surcharged. Although unofficially prepared, their usage was subsequently approved by the Postal Authorities
1953 (July) envelope from Broken Hill to Mkushi bearing Coronation 1½d. with double-ring datestamp, showing manuscript "To Pay 1d" in blue crayon and bearing Rhodes Centenary 1d. Type 2 marginal example with type-written "postage/due/1d" in red cancelled and tied by two arrival c.d.s. (31.7); central vertical fold. Very rare with only five such covers recorded in "The Rhodesian Philatelist" listing, of which this is number 4. S.G. cat. from £4,250. Photo

provenance:
Sam Kelly, March 1992

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Sold for
£4,500