Southern Rhodesia #2 The very rare provisional issue. The indicium (a different plate than the one used for the regular air letters) was lithographed on a UK military air letter form (control no. 51-5829 on side panel) to cover the demand for air letters before the new regular air letter (#3) was issued on 25 March 1947.
Peetoom (2009) says that „used examples are thin on the ground and may total a dozen or so. No mint copies have been seen“. He lists eight used copies which were postmarked between 27 December 1946 and 8 April 1947.
This copy was postmarked Salisbury (6 FEB 47) and sent to India. It has not been recorded by Peetoom and is the only one so far to a destination other than the UK.
References
Peetoom, O. (2009), The 1946 Emergency Printing of a Civilian 6d Aerogramme on form 51-5829.The Rhodesian Philatelist No. 28, pp. 483-485
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