RHODESIA

It seems that the reason the Rhodesian TPO down cancellation is scarcer that the TPO up is that the TPO up mail mainly carried letters from women to their men 'up country' in the mines. Anectdotally is seems it was the women who wrote more to the men that vice-versa hence the relative scarcity of the TPO down. To this day, by the way, we still use the 1977 Rhodesia Stamp Catalgoue produced in Africa to evaluate relative values of this cancels.