RHODESIA AB4501

BECHUANALAND
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AB4501

RAILWAYS 1979 (16th July), airmail envelope addressed to Mahalapye. Bearing a single uncancelled 5t ‘African Jacana’ (SG 415) with a RHODESIA RAILWAYS / 16 JUL 1979 / STATION MASTER, SHASHE boxed cachet alongside struck in magenta. Also showing a light RHODESIA RAILWAYS / STATION MASTER’S OFFICE / 18 JUL 1979 / TSHESEBE oval transit datestamp also struck in magenta.

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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