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Auction: 16034 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 2841

(x) Zululand
1888 (10 Apr.) OHMS envelope from Eshowe to Sir. A.E. Havelock, the Governor of Natal, to Pietermaritzburg, posted twenty days before official mail was issued from Zululand, showing Eshowe c.d.s. (second digit of month altered in manuscript) in violet and lightly over-cancelled by Lower Tugela c.d.s., the reverse with a further strike of the Eshowe c.d.s., Durban and G.P.O. natal (16.4) c.d.s. Photo

Note: On 23 April A.S. Windham wrote a circular to Zululand Officials instructing them that "from and after the 1st. of May 1888 all letters, newspapers, parcels and other postal matter posted in Zululand will be required to have affixed to them Zululand Postage Stamps". A photocopy of this letter accompanies the lot. Despite this Notice the agreement between Natal and Zululand was only signed on 15 May 1888

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Estimate
£500 to £600