ZUID-AFRIKAANSCHE REPUBLIEK / TRANSVAAL
Postage Stamps: 1882 2nd Republic to 1910
SECOND REPUBLIC
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1883 Celliers printings
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1881-1910, Second Republic to Union
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| T1608 |
c1899 sheet of watermarked paper (251x199mm) with ‘ZA/R’ repeated 60 times (10x6) and with corner guide-lines and spaced ‘Z A R’ at top and bottom. A few minor stains or discolouration, otherwise fine. Uncommon.
Note: Prepared in England for a proposed ‘Kruger’ issue to be printed in the ZAR and which was subsequently abandoned following the outbreak of Second Anglo-Boer War. Quantities of the paper were sold to various philatelic publishers including F. Hugh Vallancey who used this paper to publish the Large Paper Edition of “A Collectors’ Catalogue of Philatelic Literature” (London, 1917). Robson Lowe also used some of this paper to print price lists and monographs.
(See ‘The Kruger essays and ‘ZA/R’ watermarked paper’ published in The Transvaal Philatelist, August 1996, Volume 31, Issue 3, pp.95-96 by Gerrit Jonkers) |
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