RHODESIA AB4502

BECHUANALAND
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RAILWAYS - Rhodesia Railways Parcel Stamps with Botswana Station Codes

AB4502

RAILWAYS 1979 (18th July), airmail envelope addressed to Mahalapye. Bearing a single uncancelled 5t ‘African Jacana’ (SG 415) with a R.R. / TSHESEBE (18 Jul) double circle datestamp struck at left. ‘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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