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Showing posts with label Rhodesia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rhodesia. Show all posts

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Rhodesia: Airmail labels 3

Here are some non postal issues of airmail labels from Rhodesia.

Year: 1965, Gummed. Günter Mair's catalogue no: - RHD-C-1, rouletted, sheets, issued at the occasion of Central African Trade Fair, Salisbury, 29.4.-8.5.1965, blue/red/white, 5*****








Year: 1966, Gummed. Günter Mair's catalogue no: - RHD-C-2, rouletted, sheets, issued at the occasion of Central African Trade Fair, Salisbury, 28.4.-7.5.1966, blue/red/white, 5*****








Year: 1968, Gummed. Günter Mair's catalogue no: - RHD-C-4, rouletted, sheets, issued at the occasion of Central African International Trade Fair, Salisbury, 2.5.-12.5.1968, blue/green/white, 5*****

Rodhesia: CAA airmail labels

Here are an airline issue labels from CAA (Central African Airways).


Central African Airways (CAA) was formed in 1946 from the wartime Southern Rhodesian Air Services (SRAS), which was in turn formed from the pre-war Rhodesia And Nyasaland Airways (RANA) and Southern Rhodesia Air Force (SRAF) communications squadron. The airline was the national carrier initially of Southern Rhodesia, then of the Central African Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1953. It was headquartered in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia.
The airline headquarters and maintenance base was at Belvedere Airport, close to the centre of Salisbury.(wikipedia)


Year: approx.1953, Gummed. Günter Mair's catalogue no: - RHD-B-1, perforated 11, sheets, 
dark violet-blue or dark grey-blue or dark blue(?), 4****
Dark violet-blue
Dark grey-blue
Dark blue?



Year: 1956, Gummed. Günter Mair's catalogue no: - RHD-B-2, perforated 12 ½ , sheets, dark 
violet-blue/white, 5*****

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Rhodesia: Airmail labels 2

Here i've got another label from Rhodesia.

Year: approx.1970, Gummed. Günter Mair's catalogue no: - RHD-A-7a, prforated H 14, V 14 ½ , 
sheets, blue/white, 2**

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Rhodesia: Airmail labels

Here are airmail labels from Rhodesia.

Rhodesia, officially the Republic of Rhodesia from 1970, was an unrecognised state located in southern Africa that existed between 1965 and 1979 following its Unilateral Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965. With its government based at the former colonial capital of Salisbury, its territory consisted of the former British colony of Southern Rhodesia. The state was named after Cecil John Rhodes, whose British South Africa Company acquired the land in the 19th century. (Wikipedia)

Year: approx.1965, Gummed. Günter Mair's catalogue no: - RHD-A-5, rouletted, sheets of 42(3x14),
"PAR AVION" ; 16.5mm, grey-blue or bright blue/white, 2**
  









Year: approx.1965, Gummed. Günter Mair's catalogue no: - RHD-A-6, rouletted, sheets of 42(3x14),
lettering modified, "PAR AVION" ; 16mm, bright blue/white, 2**










Year: before 1969, Gummed. Günter Mair's catalogue no: - RHD-A-8, rouletted, sheets, 
"BY AIRMAIL" : 25mm ; "PAR AVION" : 16mm, black/blue/white, 2**