Northern Rhodesia. The Mkushi Postage Dues and the renamed Old Mkushi Post Office

Plot

NORTHERN RHODESIA 1953-55
The Mkushi Postage Dues and
The renamed Old Mkushi Post Office
Contents Page
Preface 2
The 1953 Mkushi Postage Dues
Northern Rhodesia - Accounting for Unpaid or Insufficient Postage 3
The Creation and use of the Mkushi Postage Dues 3
Dates of use for the Mkushi Postage Dues 4
August 1953 - Notes: Beck to PMG Livingstone, GPO to Beck 6
The Validity of the Mkushi dues and doubts cast over their status 7
E. Hoston Dubber & The Variations on the typewritten overprints 8
The Typewritten Overprints 9
The number of stamps overprinted on the typewriter. 12
The number of surviving Mkushi postage due covers 12
A genuine single used typewritten postage due 16
Mint or 'Cancelled to order' Mkushi dues do not exist 16
Faked mint example of typewritten dues & some final observations 17
Appendix 1 - A Chronological List of Events 18
Appendix 2 - The Beck - Poole Letters 20
Appendix 3 - H.R. Beck's Article in Stamp Collecting 23
Appendix 4 - The Surviving Mkushi Postage Due Covers. 24
Appendix 5 - Addresses on the surviving Mkushi Postage Due Covers 26
The Mkushi Borna and Post office is renamed Old Mkushi 29
The Usage of the oval 'District Commissioner-Mkushi' handstamp 30
The alleged postal use of the oval 'Office of the District Commissioner' 30
Observation on the 'Office of the District Commissioner' cover 31
June 1954 - An alternative postal cancellation at Old Mkushi 31
The homemade 'Old Mkushi' chops 34
Alleged postal use of the circular 'Old Mkushi' chop 34
Use of the two line 'Old Mkushi' chop 35
Old Mkushi renamed Mboroma 35
Appendix 6 - Old Mkushi, A Chronological list of dates 36
Appendix 7 - 26.3.54 Letter H.R.B. to Postmaster, Broken Hill 37
Appendix 8 - June 1954 Experimental strikes at Old Mkushi by H.R.B. 38
Appendix 9 - Registered covers from Old Mkushi 39