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Auction: 13027 - The Collector's series sale
Lot: 1318

Northern Rhodesia
The Mkushi Provisional Postage Due Stamps
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 stamps were overprinted and surcharged. Although unofficially prepared, their usage was subsequently approved by the Postal Authorities
1953 (16 July) envelope from Kasama to Mkushi, bearing Coronation 1½d. with superb double-ring datestamp, showing manuscript "1d" and bearing, at upper left, Definitive 1d. with type-written "postage/due/1d" (Type 5) in red cancelled by Mkushi c.d.s. for 23 August. Very rare and the earliest of only four such covers recorded in "The Rhodesian Philatelist" listing, of which this in number 6. S.G. cat. from £4,250. Photo

Sold for
£2,800