RHODESIA UNILATERAL DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Postage Dues on cover / Booklets / Political & Postal History / Bush War
- POSTAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY
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1974 – 77 M.P.O. (military Post Office) labels. An apparently complete collection of these including reprints, comprising:
M.P.O. 1 SALISBURY, on green (February 1974)
M.P.O. 1 altered to ‘2’ in ink, on deeper green (utilised June 1976)
M.P.O. 2 SALISBURY, on yellowish green (February 1974)
M.P.O. 2 SALISBURY, non-serifed lettering, on blue-green (24th September 1976)
M.P.O. 2 SALISBURY, non-serifed lettering, on bluish green (23rd May 1977)
M.P.O. 1 BULAWAYO, on yellow (September 1976)
M.P.O. 3 SALISBURY, on salmon (1st March 1976)
M.P.O. 3 (SALISBURY) hansdtamped over in violet ‘UMTALI’, on salmon (10th March 1976)
M.P.O. 3 UMTALI, on orange (August 1976)
M.P.O. 3 UMTALI, on pale salmon (second printing, August 1976)
M.P.O. 3 UMTALI, on mottled pale salmon (3rd May 1977)
M.P.O. 4 FORT VICTORIA, on white (13th May 1976)
M.P.O. 4 FORT VICTORIA, dark grey on white (October 1976)
M.P.O. 4 FORT VICTORIA, on white (3rd May 1977)
M.P.O. 5 GWELO, on pale blue (30th November 1977)
A total of 15 labels, unused on gummed paper. A most unusual group.
Note: this group was accumulated by a serving member of the Armed Forces at the time, and may be assumed to be the definitive record of these labels.
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