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Auction: 20040 - Stamps and Covers of Southern Africa
Lot: 58

Cape of Good Hope
The First British Occupation
1795 (19 Sept.) entire from Lieut. (later Rear-Admiral) George Astle at Cape Town to his grandfather Thomas Astle (Keeper of the records at the Tower of London) at "Battersea Rise Surry", rated "4" and showing "gravesend/ship lre" (S1), part arrival datestamp on reverse. A scarce and unusual cover written just three days after the Dutch capitulation at Muizenberg. Photo

Note: The Dutch garrison at the Cape capitulated at Muizenberg on 16 September after a short skirmish at Wynberg Hill

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