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Auction: 8029 - Soldiers' Rates of the BE - Gerald Sattin Collection
Lot: 14

Cape of Good Hope 1832 (8 Apr.) entire from "Adam J. Ziedeman Private Soldier Cape Mounted Rifle" to Cape Town, countersigned and dated by the Commanding Officer "Caffer Drift Post", marked "1d" and showing a fair large part strike of the "post office/Crown/grahams town" h.s. Photo Estimate £ 500-600 Note: The Cape Mounted Riflemen service was the protection of the Cape Colony´´s Eastern Frontier. Upper Caffer Drift Post was a post around a signal tower on the bank of the Fish River, in communication with the east of Grahams Town

Sold for
£480