Lockdown2 - Day 1.
Another stamp from my old album.
The Colony of Southern Rhodesia was a self-governing British Crown colony in southern Africa from 1923 to 1980. Following the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965, the nation existed as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia. It then returned to a period of interim British control until, in 1979 it became Zimbabwe.
This stamp, from 1940, shows 'Hoisting the Flag' by Lt Edward Tyndale Biscoethe of the Pioneer Column on the Kopje overlooking Fort Salisbury on the morning of September 13th 1890.
The Pioneer Column was raised by Cecil Rhodes and his British South Africa Company in 1890 and used in his efforts to annex the territory of Mashonaland.
Clearly a period of Colonialism and of course Cecil Rhodes is not held in the highest of regards these days!
The stamps were printed by Waterlow & Sons Ltd of London.
Lockdown2 - Day 1.
Another stamp from my old album.
The Colony of Southern Rhodesia was a self-governing British Crown colony in southern Africa from 1923 to 1980. Following the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965, the nation existed as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia. It then returned to a period of interim British control until, in 1979 it became Zimbabwe.
This stamp, from 1940, shows 'Hoisting the Flag' by Lt Edward Tyndale Biscoethe of the Pioneer Column on the Kopje overlooking Fort Salisbury on the morning of September 13th 1890.
The Pioneer Column was raised by Cecil Rhodes and his British South Africa Company in 1890 and used in his efforts to annex the territory of Mashonaland.
Clearly a period of Colonialism and of course Cecil Rhodes is not held in the highest of regards these days!
The stamps were printed by Waterlow & Sons Ltd of London.