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Auction: 18043 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 569

(x) Basutoland
The Cape Post Office Period
Leribe (Thlotse Heights)
1889 (7 June) envelope ex the Burmeister correspondence, complete with letter from Louis Wroughton, Assistant Commissioner of Leribe, "Via Kimberley" to Cape Town, bearing 2d. bistre cancelled by fine "thlotse/heights" datestamp (D3) with a further strike alongside, the reverse with "ficksburg/o.v.s." datestamp (an unrecorded type) in magenta and small parts of Bloemfontein and Cape Town datestamps; clean and most attractive. Photo

Note: The writer requests a quote for a pendant made out of "17-18 Jubilee Shillings and Jubilee florin" and asks for correspondence to go to Thlotse Heights "via Aliwal North"

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Sold for
£320