Lot 306
1936 1½d two unusual covers ‡




The Moody Tidwell Collection of South Africa, with Important Pioneer Airmails | S26032
Auction: 17 December 2026, 10:00 GMT
Description
1936 1½d green and bright gold. One a marginal pair with Dynamite Factory datestamps of 16 NOV 36, on an envelope proclaiming it to be ‘first day’; the stamps were first issued at the JIPEX post office four days earlier, and this may well have been the first day of availability at other post offices. Also a JIPEX Robertson envelope posted on the 12th, bearing a single with JIPEX cancel, showing missing mine dump shading. SG 57, a
Footnote
Examples postmarked Rissik St, Johannesburg, on the 14th, may well have been carried from the Exhibition




