RHODESIA & NYASALAND FEDERATION
Stamps & Postal History
1959 QE DEFINITIVES, SG 18-31
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POSTAL HISTORY
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1962 27th February, blue envelope bearing QEII 1/- and 5/- definitives, plus 2/6 Airmail (SG 25, 29, 42, 8/6d rate), cancelled 'SHIWA NGANDU' datestamp, registered label alongside with manuscript endorsement, sent airmail to Colonel R. F. Gore-Browne, England. Folded at right and some light faults, still an extraordinary item, presumably sent to a member of his family.
Note: Sir Stewart Gore-Browne returned to Northern Rhodesia in 1920 after a period surveying the border between there and Belgian Congo. His wish was to establish an estate in Africa, which he found at Shiwa Ngandu. His extraordinary life was told in The Africa House by Christina Lamb. He played a part in the political development of the country, and finally died in 1967.
'By the late 1950s Shiwa Ng'andu epitomised everything Sir Stewart represented – orderly, neat, precise. For years it had been an oasis for travellers on the Great North Road, a place where hospitality had never been refused; and this little bit of England in Africa never ceased to impress its visitors. |
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