BECHUANALAND
Revenues, Tati, Railways
RAILWAYS  -  Rhodesia Railways Parcel Stamps with Botswana Station Codes
AB4500
RAILWAYS 1979 (25th July), airmail envelope addressed to Mahalapye. Bearing a single 5t ‘African Jacana’ (SG 415) tied by a R.R. / FRANCISTOWN (25 Jul) double circle datestamp with a second strike alongside. ‘R.R.’ denotes ‘Rhodesia Railways’ who at that time operated that section of the line.
 
Note: the addressee, Roy Setterfield, was a Government veterinary surgeon stationed in Mahalapye. After retiring to Hove in the U.K, Roy became the founding member of the Bechuanaland and Botswana Society and sole or joint-editor of the society journal ‘The Runner Post’ for the first 21 issues.
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