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Auction: 21030 - The 'Greca' Collection of Southern African Postal History
Lot: 149

New Republic
1888 (18 Aug.) envelope registered to Bordeaux, bearing 2d. ("4 jan 87") on granite paper without embossed Arms, in combination with Transvaal 1883 re-issue 1d. (3), 1885 6d. blue, 1885 ½d. on 1/- green and 1887 2d. on 3d. mauve (2, one damaged), all tied by oval "vryheid" datestamp in violet with year date error "87", showing red manuscript registration number, London and Calais to Paris c.d.s. with, on reverse, Dundee, Durban and arrival datestamps; the envelope with large part cut away. Photo

Note: This letter was posted less than a month after the New Republic became part of the Transvaal. Transvaal postage stamps were already available in Vryheid. The postage rate to France from the Transvaal was 9½d. going via the Cape Colony and 7½d. via Natal. The registration fee was 4d.. The 2d. New Republic internal charge should no longer have applied, but was never the less paid by the sender. From the transit marks this letter followed the more convenient and cheaper route through Natal and is thus 4d. overpaid.

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Estimate
£2,000 to £2,500

Starting price
£1600