ZUID-AFRIKAANSCHE REPUBLIEK / TRANSVAAL
Postal History and Postal Stationery
POSTAL HISTORY
T2188
1897 (15th November), envelope addressed to ‘Kantoor Staats Secretaris’ (Office of the State Secretary) in Pretoria. Bearing a single 1d rose-red and green (SG 217) tied by a very fine ‘26’ target-type canceller attributed to Sterkfontein. With Rustenburg (15 Nov) transit and Pretoria (17 Nov) arrival backstamps. Small piece of flap missing and some contemporary (?) notations on face of envelope, otherwise a fine and attractive example of the 1d per half ounce internal letter rate introduced on the 6th September 1895.
 
Note: Putzel records the Sterkfontein agency as closed by the 30th June 1890 and only reopened in 1904. This cover suggests either the agency had reopened by late 1897 or the ‘26’ canceller may have been reassigned to another agency.
£125