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Auction: 20040 - Stamps and Covers of Southern Africa
Lot: 212

Cape of Good Hope
Covers and Cancellations
1866 (15 July) envelope from Cape Town "Via Hopetown" to Rev. J.S. Moffat at Kuruman, bearing 4d. blue cancelled "1" with despatch datestamp alongside. Unusual. Photo

Note: John Smith Moffat, the son of Dr. Robert Moffat, the London Missionary Society's representative amongst the Bechuanas, was the brother-in-law of David Livingstone. In 1879 he resigned from missionary service and joined the Government. In 1888 he founded the Mafeking-Bulawayo Runner Post between Bechuanaland and Matabeleland

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