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Auction: 22025 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 251

(x) Basutoland
Covers and Cancellations
Cape of Good Hope used in Basutoland
1881 (19 July) envelope to Cape Town bearing Cape of Good Hope "3" on 3d. rose tied by barred numeral '317' with "thotse/heights" single-circle datestamp at upper left ("8'"inverted) with Maseru and arrival datestamps on reverse. The earliest recorded usage of the Thlotse Heights handstamp. Photo

Note: The writer, Captain McKay Dow of the Transvaal Horse was stationed at Thlotse Heights (later Leribe) during the Basutoland rebellion.

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Sold for
£400