‘VIC’ VISSER BECHUANALAND
Postal History
- Postal History
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BECHUANALAND / Stellaland / Warren Expedition 1885 (6th February), soldier’s 1d concessionary rate envelope addressed to Scotland. Bearing a single Cape 1d rose-red (SG 41, fault) tied by a very fine ‘232’ BONC with a proving strike of BARKLY G.W. (FE 6 85) single circle datestamp alongside. Endorsed at top ‘B. Christie. 1st Mounted Rifles and countersigned at lower left above ‘Commanding B Troop’. Backstamped with Cape Town (FE 10), Greenock (MR 4) and Largs (MR 4) transit / arrival datestamps. Small part of flap missing otherwise a very fine and rare early example of mail from this expedition.
Note: this is the third earliest cover recorded by Alan Drysdall in his census of Warren Expedition mail in his article ‘A Postal History of Stellaland’ (London Philatelist 101.65, March 1992). Also illustrated in The Runner Post issue 23, June 1991, p430.
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