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Auction: 20040 - Stamps and Covers of Southern Africa
Lot: 95

Cape of Good Hope
General Screw Steam Shipping Co
1852-54 Second Contract: Cape Town and Indian Ocean

1852 (Nov. and Dec.) entire letters being annual report Nos. 10 and 13 of the Wesleyan missionaries in Kaffraria and Natal and written by the Rev. Horation Pearse relating to the missionary stations at Palmerston and Pietermaritzberg, both rated "8" and "1/-" and showing fine strikes of the "general post office/Crown/cape town" handstamp, one on reverse; both carried by the Queen of the South on the first of the return packets under the second contract

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