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RAILWAYS  -  Rhodesia Railways Parcel Stamps with Botswana Station Codes
AB2231
RAILWAYS 1969 (3rd February), part of a Rhodesia Railways ‘Parcels Waybill’ (reduced to 151x139mm). Bearing ten Rhodesia Railways stamps with various printed station codes: 3c and 4c ‘TES’ (Tsessebe), 5c and R1 ‘PY’ (Palapye), 10c single and strip of three ‘MAG’ (Mahalapye), 2s and £1 ‘OZ’ (Odzi, Rhodesia). All stamps further hand-stamped ‘GS’ in violet for use at Gaberones and all tied by R.R. Gaberones (3 Feb) oval datestamps struck in purple. A most unusual combination of codes, values and currencies and use of non-decimal Rhodesian values / station codes in Botswana.
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