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Auction: 26012 - The Dr. Erick Reeber Collection, FRPSL
Lot: 1433

(x) Northern Rhodesia
Postage Dues
1953 Mkushi Provisional Issue
1953 (17 Aug.) envelope from Broken Hill to Mkushi bearing 1938 ½d. chocolate (2) tied by 'broken hill' cancellation and taxed 2d. with T 2d. in blue crayon manuscript alongside and with 1d. green with typewritten "postage /due/1d" in red type 3 (roughly cut into at top since origin) and type 6 (very fine) affixed and cancelled by Mkushi datestamp; very rare with just twenty four covers and a front recorded and the unique type 6 on cover; S.G. see footnote after D4, from £5,500 on cover. Photo

literature: For an in-depth study on this issue please refer to:
Peetoom "Another Look at the 1953 Mkushi Postage Dues (2019), The Rhodesia Philatelist Number 46.

Trotter, Flanagan, Harrop "Rhodesia & Nyasaland Mails. Postage Due & Other Charges" (2025).

The cover offered in this lot is the Number "12" of the census.


Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Estimate
£1,500 to £2,500

Starting price
£1000