Description: This horizontal definitive postage stamp features a highly detailed, monochrome line engraving of Cecil John Rhodes’s grave site, situated on a flat rocky plateau flanked by two massive natural granite boulders. In the upper-left corner, a crisp circular vignette frames a right-facing side profile portrait of a young Queen Elizabeth II. The territory name "RHODESIA AND NYASALAND" is printed prominently across the top right field in clean, capitalized sans-serif block typography. The face value is designated as "3D" (3 Pence) in the bottom-left corner, immediately preceding the word "POSTAGE." A small directional label in the lower-right corner cleanly identifies the historical scene as "RHODES'S GRAVE MATOPOS." A faded, partial black ink postal mark is visible across the center-left side from its time in active postal transit.
Circa: 1959-1964
Condition: Used - Hinged
Notes:
This three-pence stamp represents a short-lived, geopolitically complex territory known to history as a "dead country" among stamp collectors. The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was an amalgam of Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, and Nyasaland that existed for just a single decade before decolonization divided the region into modern-day Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi. The physical burial site depicted on the stamp is located at "World's View" in the Matobo Hills (historically spelled Matopos), where Cecil Rhodes was buried at his own explicit request in 1902.