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Auction: 16027 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 953

Orange Free State
Transorangia
1847 (14 Nov.) entire letter from Cornet C.J.B. Plestow at "Bloem Fonteyne" to London, rated "8" in red (deleted) and in black and showing a largely fine strike of the "ship letter/Crown/cape of good hope" handstamp, arrival c.d.s. (3.2) on reverse; small adhesive tape stain at top, otherwise fine. See handbook, pages 37-38. Photo

Note: With no Post Office in Bloemfontein military mail was taken, probably to Colesberg where it entered the Cape postal system. In the letter Plestow expresses his dislike of being in Bloemfontein although an 1853 Census records that he still lived there in 1853 when he was awarded the South Africa Medal

provenance:
Gerald Sattin


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