My contribution to this week's Sunday Stamps is a bit of a cheat, but please bear with me while I explain my story. Some of you who have read my previous stamp related posts will recall I inherited a family stamp collection many years ago. This 'stamp' was part of that collection, and although not really a stamp, I've always regarded it as one and it's been kept alongside my British Commonwealth stamps ever since. Rather than a stamp which has been stuck on to an envelope, it's more like one of those transfers that you rubbed on with a coin, that you used to get (and maybe still do) with packets of kids' sweets. It's a 4 pence registration stamp from Southern Rhodesia, although curiously postmarked in Deal, Kent. Hopefully there's another Sunday Stamps reader who might know a little more about this registration stamp and what it was used for.
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This is a very interesting stamp. Looking at online prices for Southern Rhodesia stamps it will be quite valuable. I haven't turned this or one like it up.
ReplyDeleteI think it may be the back flap of a registered letter. Maybe it was forwarded from Deal.
ReplyDeleteFascinating. That is what I enjoy about contributing to these weekly memes, is that we get to "meet" others and share information and explore what we already have in our collections.
ReplyDeleteI don't know anything about it, but Sheila's comment makes sense.
ReplyDeleteStill very interesting. Wonder what it's worth.
ReplyDeleteThanks for participating.
The image looks a bit like Edward 7, but that cannot be so Southern Rhodesia was created in 1923. Do you know who is the image of and does it have a date?
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting hope you will keep us posted when you find out what it is and when.
This is interesting no-matter-what. :)
ReplyDeleteI had forgotten just how interesting stamps could be. Thanks for reminding me.
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