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Auction: 18043 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 574

(x) Basutoland
The Cape Post Office Period
Mafeteng
1891 (1 June) 1d. brown missionary correspondence card, uprated with ½d. grey, from Louis Germond at "Siloe" to the Editor of the Express at Bloemfontein, twice cancelled with barred oval "156" and with despatch datestamp (D2) at foot, arrival squared-circle datestamp (9.6) on reverse. Photo

Note: Louis Germond was responsible for establishing the missionary station in 1863. No postal facilities were ever established at Siloe and mail was posted at the nearest town of Mafeteng

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Sold for
£80