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Auction: 23021 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 678

South Africa
1911 (30 Aug.) late envelope from Cape Town to Goole, Yorkshire mailed on board 'Kinfauns Castle', Cape Town Docks and cancelled and posted just before sailing, bearing Orange River Colony 1d. (2) paying double the 1d. per half ounce letter as the letter weighed in excess of half an ounce and additionally franked with Transvaal 1/- to pay the late fee all tied by the very scarce shipping postmaster/ cape town' rubber handstamps in blue; fine and rare . Illustrated in 'Southern African Mails by Brian Trotter (pg. 519). Photo

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£550

Starting price
£240