1/13/22, 4:19 PM Northern Rhodesia Stamps and Covers

Rhodesian Ormskirk
Specialist Stamps

Home Page Northern Rhodesia About Us - Terms

Previous Page Stamps, Postage Dues, Revenues, Stationery and Covers Next Page

This Page Includes 1953 Rhodes Centenary SG 54 - 58

1925 KGV Definitives SG 1 - 17 1953 Rhodes Exhibition
 Scroll Down the Page
1935 Silver Jubilee SG 18 - 21 1953 Coronation
1937 Coronation 1953 Definitives SG 61 - 74
1938 - 52 KGVI Definitives SG 22 - 45
1963 Definitives SG 75 - 88 and Varieties
1946 Victory
1929 - 1963 Postage Dues D1 - 10
1948 Royal Silver Wedding Revenues
1949 UPU Postal Stationery and Postal History

Order Form Word Doc 1925 KGV Specimens Order Form PDF

All the high values,

except 2/- and 3/-,
with a horizontal
printers mark
on their NW corner

NR 5
SG 1 - 17s - Complete set Overprinted Specimen (3/- perfined)
Mint £1000

1925 KGV Definitives

SG 1 - 17
Complete set Mint
https://www.rhodesianstamps.net/Northern_Rhodesia_Stamps_and_Covers.htm 1/17
1/13/22, 4:19 PM Northern Rhodesia Stamps and Covers
Mint £560

SG 8 SG 9 SG 11
KGV 8d KGV 10d KGV 2/-
UMM £13 UMM £13 UMM £45

Mint £6.50 Mint £6.50 Mint £21

Used £45 Used £40 Used £35

SG 12 SG 13
KGV 2/6 KGV 3/-

Mint £16 Mint £33

Used £11 Used £19

SG 14
SG 16
KGV 5/-
KGV 10/-
UMM £75

Mint £85
Mint £38

Used £70
Used £15

NR 6 - SG 14 SG 15 SG 17 Few pulled
5/- Pair KGV 7/6 KGV 20/- Perforations
Used at Lusaka £30 Mint £110 Mint £225 Mint £100

1925 KGV Definitives - Multiples

https://www.rhodesianstamps.net/Northern_Rhodesia_Stamps_and_Covers.htm 2/17
1/13/22, 4:19 PM Northern Rhodesia Stamps and Covers

NR 7- SG 11 NR 8 - SG 14 NR 9 - SG 17
2/- Block of 6 - Fiscally Used 5/- Block of 6 - Fiscally Used 20/- Block of 4 - Fiscally Used
Rare Multiple £60 Rare Multiple £60 Rare Multiple £150

NR 10 - SG 3
1½d
Deep Carmine Lake
Shade
NKANA 15 NOV 32
Scarce used multiple
£10

1935 KGV Silver Jubilee

SG 18 - 21
UMM
£30

Mint £14

SG 18 - 21
Used
£11

NR 12 - SG 18 - 21
Complete set in blocks of four
UMM £120

1937 Coronation
https://www.rhodesianstamps.net/Northern_Rhodesia_Stamps_and_Covers.htm 3/17
1/13/22, 4:19 PM Northern Rhodesia Stamps and Covers
SG 22 - 24
UMM
£1

1937 Coronation
SG 22 - 24
Used
£2.25

1938 - 52 KGVI Definitives - Complete set UMM

SG 25 - 45
Set of 21 Values
UMM
£190

1938 - 52 KGVI Definitives - Complete set Used

All values are available individually - see Pricelist

https://www.rhodesianstamps.net/Northern_Rhodesia_Stamps_and_Covers.htm 4/17
1/13/22, 4:19 PM Northern Rhodesia Stamps and Covers

SG 25 - 45
Set of 21 Values
Used
£120

1938 - 52 KGVI Definitives - Multiples

NR 15 - SG 26a & 28
½d & 1d Coil join strips of 6
Hinged on one stamp
UMM £80

NR 16 - SG 29
1½d Carmine red
UMM £160

NR 17 - SG 31
2d Yellow brown UMM £160

NR 18 - SG 29 NR 19 - SG 31
1½d Carmine red An Exceptionally deep shade 2d Yellow brown Commercial use
NDOLA 13 JUL 40 £15 NDOLA 18 JUL 40 £10

NR 20
SG 37 & 39
1952
4½d
and 9d
Cylinder
Imprint
corner
marginal blocks
of 35
Cancelled
FDI
KITWE

https://www.rhodesianstamps.net/Northern_Rhodesia_Stamps_and_Covers.htm 5/17
1/13/22, 4:19 PM Northern Rhodesia Stamps and Covers
5.5.52
£500

NR 21
NR 22
SG 29b 1938 - 41
SG 30b
1½d Carmine red KGVI Definitive
1½d Yellow brown
Livingstone 31 JAN 30 Tick bird flaw
Used
Pulled perforation along top ex R7/1
£40
£225

1946 Victory

SG 46 - 47
UMM £1

Used £1.50

1946 Victory - 1½d

Perforation 13½
NR 30 - SG 46a
1½d Perforation 13½
Top marginal block of 4
with printers mark SG 46a SG 46a
UMM 1½d Perforation 13½ 1½d Perforation 13½
£40 UMM Used
£10 £15

1948 Royal Silver Wedding

SG 48 - 49
UMM
£110

Used
SOLD

1949 UPU

SG 50 - 53
UMM
£4

https://www.rhodesianstamps.net/Northern_Rhodesia_Stamps_and_Covers.htm 6/17
1/13/22, 4:19 PM Northern Rhodesia Stamps and Covers

1953 QEII Issues

NR 35 - SG 57 1953 Set of five

4½d In a cylinder block of 4 commercially used
Cancelled KITWE with a Montreal, Canada arrival Birth Centenary of Cecil Rhodes UMM £2.50
cancel on the margin

SG 54 - 58 Used £9
£14

1953
Rhodes
Exhibition
SG 59
UMM £1

Used £1.75

1953 Coronation

SG 60
UMM £1

Used 0.50

NR 36 - 1953 Coronation SG 60 - Full Sheet

Complete sheet of sixty - Cylinder 1B 5B, sheet No11387. Has been hinged to an album page - full sheets rarely seen nowadays £50

1953 QEII Definitives - Complete set UMM

SG 61 - 74
Set of 14 Values
UMM £60

Mint £30

https://www.rhodesianstamps.net/Northern_Rhodesia_Stamps_and_Covers.htm 7/17
1/13/22, 4:19 PM Northern Rhodesia Stamps and Covers

1953 QEII Definitives - Complete set in blocks of four - UMM

NR 38

Blocks of four
1953 Set SG 61 - 74
In superb blocks of four
(14 Blocks)
Rarely offered
UMM
£320

1953 QEII Definitives - Complete set Used

All values are available individually - see Pricelist

SG 61 - 74
Set of 14 Values
Used
£70

1953 6d Definitive - Watermark Inverted

https://www.rhodesianstamps.net/Northern_Rhodesia_Stamps_and_Covers.htm 8/17
1/13/22, 4:19 PM Northern Rhodesia Stamps and Covers

NR 40 - SG 68a
NR 39 - SG 68a
6d Watermark Inverted
6d Watermark Inverted
BPA Certificate (1967)
Around two dozen or more known
One of three Used examples
Mint
(One is damaged)
£2500
£7500

My initial research into this variety was published in the February 1994 edition of The Rhodesian Philatelist No 3
This variety is thought to originate from two different sheets and at the time of publication only three mint and one used copy was known
However in the 1998 SG Part I the inverted watermarks were added to the catalogue - As a result of the foregoing numerous mint examples appeared out of the
woodwork. Only one more used copy (damaged - Spink 2015) came to light

In The Rhodesian Philatelist No 38 (July 2016) I published an updated article and concluded: Mint Inverted watermark copies
In my humble opinion I suggest that at least thirty plus mint examples are known. Should they originate from a sheet, split up by the stamp trade,
then there are many more copies awaiting discovery. The 6d value was printed in sheets of 120 stamps

In The Rhodesian Philatelist No 43 (February 2018) another update was published and the current opinion is that there were perhaps three sheets of said variety

This Section Includes Value Omitted Varieties

1963 Definitives SG 75 - 88 3d & 9d Value & Eagle Omitted
UMM & Used 1963 Post Federation 3d Eagle Printed twice
3d Eagle Omitted
1/-Booklet with pane QEII Definitives Hair line flaw
Upright or Inverted Value & Colour shifts

Complete set UMM

SG 75 - 88
Set of 14 values
UMM
£45

Complete set Used

SG 75 - 88
Set of 14 values
Used
£55

https://www.rhodesianstamps.net/Northern_Rhodesia_Stamps_and_Covers.htm 9/17
1/13/22, 4:19 PM Northern Rhodesia Stamps and Covers

1963 Booklets and Coil Stamps

SB1
1964 1/- Booklet
NR 50 - With 3d Pane upright £25

1964 1/- Booklet

NR 51 - With 3d Pane inverted £12

Coil Join strips of 4

NR 52
½d and 1d
UMM
£10

1963 QEII Value Omitted Varieties

NR 55 - SG 75a NR 56 - SG 76a
½d 1d
Value Omitted Value Omitted
UMM UMM
£950 £10

NR 57 - SG 78a NR 58 - SG 79a
3d 4d
Value Omitted Value Omitted
UMM UMM
£100 £110

NR 59 - SG 80a NR 60 - SG 81a
6d 9d
Value Omitted Value Omitted
UMM UMM
£700 £500

NR 62 - SG 88a
20/- Value Omitted
Corner Marginal
From the 1st sheet
UMM
£1000 NR 63 - SG 88a
20/- Value Omitted - From the second Sheet
UMM £950

1963 QEII 3d & 9d Value & Eagle Omitted

NR 64 NR 65
SG 78b SG 81b
3d Value & Eagle Omitted 9d Value & Eagle Omitted
UMM UMM
£200 £475

https://www.rhodesianstamps.net/Northern_Rhodesia_Stamps_and_Covers.htm 10/17
1/13/22, 4:19 PM Northern Rhodesia Stamps and Covers

NR 66 - SG 78d
3d Eagle Omitted NR 68 NR 69
UMM £1200 SG 78a SG 78b
3d Value Omitted 3d Value & Eagle Omitted
NR 67 - In marginal block of 4 Used Used
UMM £5200 £700 £800

1963 1d Value Shift

NR 76
SG 76
1d with shift of 1d
Above PO of POSTAGE
In block of nine
Small tear in one stamp
NR 75 - SG 78 UMM
3d One Perforation Hole - Missing on each Stamp between £80
Stamps & margin
UMM £150

Break in Hairline
Value Shifts
Ex R4/11
On
On
½d and 3d
4d & 6d
NR 77 NR 78 NR 79 NR 80
SG 75 UMM £350 SG 78 UMM £ SG 79c Used £15 SG 80c Used £20

This Section Includes Postage Due Collection

1929 Postage Dues D1 - 4
1952 Dues on Chalky paper D1a & 3a
1929 - 63 Revenues
3d Watermark Error St Edwards Crown Postage Dues & Revenues 1953 Definitives overprinted R
1963 Postage Dues D5 - 10 1955 QEII Revenues

1929 Postage Dues

NR 100
D1 - 4s
1929
Set of 4 values
Perforated
SPECIMEN
Mint £175

D1 - 4 D1 - 4
1929 1929
Set of 4 values Set of 4 values
UMM Mint
£30 £15

D1 1d Used £2 D3 3d Used £25

D2 2d UMM £11 D4 4d UMM £16

D2 2d Used £2.50 D4 4d Used £30

https://www.rhodesianstamps.net/Northern_Rhodesia_Stamps_and_Covers.htm 11/17
1/13/22, 4:19 PM Northern Rhodesia Stamps and Covers

1952 Chalky Paper

Variety D1a 1d UMM £25
D4 4d with broken
‘d’ in 4d D3a 3d UMM £7
Ex Row 5

Used £35 D3a 3d Used £150

(Very Rare)

1952 Postage Dues on Chalky Paper in Blocks

NR 101 - D1a - 3a NR 102 - D3ac

1d & 3d Chalky in blocks of four 3d Chalky Watermark Error
UMM St Edwards Crown
£140 UMM £550

1963 Postage Dues

D5 - 10
Set of 6 values
UMM £25

1963 Postage Dues

D5 - 10
Set of 6 values
Used £50

QEII Revenues

NR 122
Postage Stamps
1953 QEII Definitive
Overprinted R
6d Grey - Overprint Variety
R shifted to left on first stamp
NR 120 - ½d Used £20
With Normal
Used
NR121 - 1d Used £8
£25

Postage Stamps Postage Stamps Postage Stamps

Overprinted R Overprinted R Overprinted R

NR 123 NR 124 NR 125

1/- SG 70 10/- SG 73 20/- SG 74

https://www.rhodesianstamps.net/Northern_Rhodesia_Stamps_and_Covers.htm 12/17
1/13/22, 4:19 PM Northern Rhodesia Stamps and Covers
Used Used Used
£40 £175 £350
(Very Rare) (Very Rare)

QEII NR 130
1d & 3d in pairs plus 6d
Design inscribed UMM
REVENUE £30

NR 132 NR 133 NR 134 NR 135 NR 136 NR 137

1/- Violet 2/- Orange, scarce 2/6 Ultramarine 2/6 Deep Ultramarine 5 /- Olive-green 10/- Slate
Used £10 Used £30 Used £10 Used £10 Used £25 Used £60

NR 140
NR 138 B&H 24
20/- Black 20/- Black
Used In a strip of 5
£25 Used
£125

NR 143
NR 142 NR 145
£50 Grey
10/- Slate 5/-

Boxed Employment Stamp

Used
‘FEE STAMP’ Seldom Offered
£1200
Used

£75 £100
(Extremely Rare)

NR 146 NR 147
6d, 1/-, 2/6, 5/-, 10/- (corner fault) & 20/- pair used on piece 1d, 3d, 1/- x 3, 5/-, 10/- and 20/-
Cancelled 3 MAY 1959 £100 Used on piece Pen cancelled £100

This Section Includes KGVI Covers

Postal Stationery Postal Stationery & WWII Covers & Censors

https://www.rhodesianstamps.net/Northern_Rhodesia_Stamps_and_Covers.htm 13/17
1/13/22, 4:19 PM Northern Rhodesia Stamps and Covers
Mint & Used QEII Covers
KGV Covers Postal History Airmail Covers
Postage Paid Covers Postage Due Covers

Postal Stationery Postage Paid WWII & Censors QEII Covers Airmails

Postal Stationery - Scout Jamboree

1945 Nkana Scout Jamboree - A privately produced postcard depicting a crocodile
Printed in green on a buff card, inscribed N.RHODESIA RALLY – NKANA 1945 and at the foot of the card
CHRONICLE, BYO. – 84720 – 6/6/45 - I have owned this card for many years and it remains the only example I have ever seen.
It is a nice thematic item that would please any collector of Scouts or Reptiles.
I showed this item to an American dealer who has a vast scouting collection and his only comment was that he had not previously seen this card!

NR 160
It seems that Nkana hosted a Scout Jamboree
circa mid 1945 and for the occasion the
Bulawayo Chronicle printed these postcards on 6 June 1945
How many were printed is anyone’s guess
I believe that the code figure 84720 has nothing to do with the print run
and is in all probability the Printer’s Job No
Extremely Rare
£750

Mazabuka Post Paid

PAID AT MAZABUKA - During Dec 1928 & April 1929 due to a shortage of low value stamps, local mail was posted stampless and
endorsed in manuscript either as Post Paid, Postage Paid or simply Paid in either black or red pen or in pencil
In some cases the Postmaster’s initials were added

NR 170 NR 171
Post paid in Pencil with MAZABUKA 3 DEC 1928 cancel (Ex Sinton) Postage paid in red ink with Postmaster’s initials added
£575 MAZABUKA 5 DEC 1928 cancel (Ex Sinton) £575

https://www.rhodesianstamps.net/Northern_Rhodesia_Stamps_and_Covers.htm 14/17
1/13/22, 4:19 PM Northern Rhodesia Stamps and Covers

NR 172 NR 173
Paid in Pencil with Postmaster’s initial added Paid in Black ink with MAZABUKA 1 APR 1929 cancel
MAZABUKA 4 MAR 1929 cancel (Ex Sinton) £575 Last recorded date (Ex Sinton) £600

Postage Paid Chingola

During December 1946, stocks of low value stamps at the Chingola Post Office were running low the Postmaster R. Foster obtained a
Two line handstamp ‘POSTAGE PAID CHINGOLA’ and used it on mail, in lieu of postage stamps, for a short period.
The only recorded dates of use are 31 XII 46, 3 I 47 and 6 I 47 - The latter being the most common date
It is believed that Mr. Foster produced several envelopes for himself on 6th January

NR 175
A rare Example of the
POSTAGE PAID CHINGOLA
Dispatched on 3 I 47
Information provided by Foster himself was
that he had only employed his ‘Paid’ handstamp
For one day on 6 I 47 and used it
On 42 items of mail
This cover proves otherwise
£500

Postage Paid in Cash

NR 177
POSTAGE PAID IN CASH - NDOLA
27 AU 53 in red
Hoyte type P5t
Rare
£50

G.P.O. Registered OHMS Envelope

NR 179
A Printed Post Office Registered envelope to Cape Town
containing two printed sheets from GPO Livingstone
One being an order form for the then current
KGV definitives & Postage Dues

The other a 23 February 1932 letter informing the addressee that the
GPO no longer has stocks of the 8d, 10d, 2/- & 7/6
Cancelled Livingstone 23 FEB 1932 &
Rondebosch 26 FEB arrival backstamp
Rare item, only example seen
£75

WWII Airgraph
NR 185
Airgraph from PEMBA
Sent on Christmas Day 1944
https://www.rhodesianstamps.net/Northern_Rhodesia_Stamps_and_Covers.htm 15/17
1/13/22, 4:19 PM Northern Rhodesia Stamps and Covers
To the Isle of Wight
Conveying
Compliments of the Season
£25

QEII Postal History - Mkushi

District Commissioner Mkushi Handstamp - Old Mkushi two line ‘Chop’

NR 190
Rare Commercial Envelope to HR Beck’s Mother
With correct 1/3 Airmail rate
Cancelled with the District Commissioner
Mkushi 12 APR 1954 handstamp
£975
NR 191
Rare Commercial Envelope to HR Beck’s In-laws
With correct 1/4 Airmail rate
Cancelled with the dumb datestamp Broken Hill excised
Used at Mkushi 27 VI 54 with the OLD MKUSHI Chop alongside
£425

Airmails

1932 First Northbound Flight

NR 221
Illustrated Imperial Airways Springbok envelope with KGV 2d x 2 & 6d
To North Wales with three line cachet in violet

BY IMPERIAL AIRWAYS
FIRST FLIGHT
MPIKA TO LONDON

Cancelled MPIKA 28 JAN H 32

With Anglesey 17 FE 32 backstamp - Scarce cachet
£50

Crash Airmail - 1932 Oscar Garden Flight

NR 223
Posted Cape Town 19 Apr 32
Crashed at Abercorn & Flight Abandoned
Two Crash Cachets & Abercorn 22 APR 32 datestamp
Rare item
£950

https://www.rhodesianstamps.net/Northern_Rhodesia_Stamps_and_Covers.htm 16/17
1/13/22, 4:19 PM Northern Rhodesia Stamps and Covers

1937 Clouston - Kirby Green Flight

A Bargain - Buy me Breakfast & I’ll carry your Covers
During November 1937 a new record was set by Flying Officer A.E. Clouston and Mrs. Betty Kirby Green flying a De Havilland Comet named
‘The Burberry’ from Croydon to Cape Town and back - The 14,690 mile journey was achieved in 4 days 6 hours and 25 minutes with
a flying time of 77 hours 49 minutes at an average speed of 189 mph

During the short stop at Broken Hill Mr. Clouston was requested to carry a number of envelopes on the remaining flight to Cape Town and to post them on arrival
Mrs Kirby-Green was not in favour of this, as they were already under contract to an English philatelic firm to only carry a limited number of flight covers
Clouston had no such reservations and suggested that if Scott paid for their breakfast, he would take the covers, this was agreed and considered ‘A Bargain’

There are four covers in total - two each addressed to G. Scott, the local wireless operator and Hoston Dubber a postal official
Rediscovered: The two covers addressed to Hoston-Dubber had most of Clouston’s writing rubbed out and my belief is that someone mistook the caption
‘A Bargain’ as a reference to the sale price when the envelopes changed hands. They were in the collection of the late Neil Hartley sold by S. Welz in 1995

NR 230
Dubber & Scott had prepaid their envelopes with
N.R. stamps for their return
These were disallowed in Cape Town hence the
3d ‘Postage Due’
Clouston’s writing restored to the cover
A Rare & delightful
Airmail Item
£2500

Order Form Word Doc Back to top of Page Order Form PDF

https://www.rhodesianstamps.net/Northern_Rhodesia_Stamps_and_Covers.htm 17/17