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Auction: 16033 - British Africa, The David Pitts Collection
Lot: 387

(x) Rhodesia
1910-13 Double Head Issue
Seven Shillings and Sixpence
All are perforated 14 unless otherwise stated

Cover
1920 (23 Jan.) Ewans envelope registered from Bulawayo to London, bearing deep rose-red and (bright) grey-blue (RSC "C"), [8] with printer's mark at lower left, neatly cancelled and tied by double-ring datestamp and with pink registration label at left, the reverse with London (21.2) and Norwood (21.2) datestamps. Most attractive and a great rarity. Photo

provenance:
Harry Birkhead, June 1986
Robert M. Gibbs, October 1987
Clive Wolpert , April 2000
Alan Uria, July 2012

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Sold for
£7,000