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Auction: 24018 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 731

Rhodesia and Nyasaland
1956-59 Provisional Postage Due
1959 (7 Jul.) envelope to 'Hoover Rhod. Ltd., Salisbury' bearing 2½d. ochre tied by 'salisbury' machine cancellation and taxed 1d. in blue crayon, provisional 1d. ultramarine handstamped 'postage due' in violet applied and tied by 'salisbury/ delivery room' c.d.s., very rare; also an unused pair of the handstamped provisional postage dues. Photo

Note: In 1959 following the increase in the postal rate to 3d., there were a large number of letters sent with insufficient postage paid. The Salisbury Post Office ran out of Southern Rhodesian postage due stamps and resorted to using ordinary postage stamps to denote the surtax. This created a certain amount of confusion, so these stamps were handstamped 'Postage Due'. No other post office adopted this practice, so the 'Salisbury Delivery Room' datestamp is the only authentic cancellation'

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