Z.A.R. / TRANSVAAL
Postal History and Postal Stationery
- POSTAL HISTORY
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1889 (21st June), envelope addressed to Germany. Bearing a pair of Vurtheim 4d bronze-green (perf 13½, SG 181a) tied by WITWATERSRAND (21 JU) single circle datestamps with ‘9 for year. With large 2½d Cape accountancy mark struck in red. Cape Town (JU 26) and London (JY 15) transit and Linx (17/7) arrival backstamps. Rare usage.
Note: the postage rate to Europe at this time was 7½d per half ounce (from 1st October 1888) suggesting an overpayment of ½d.
Note: in an article in the 1998 Ilsapex brochure, George van den Hurk stated the Witwatersrand Post Office opened on 1st October 1886 (following the discovery of gold in March 1886) and the earliest recorded date of use of this datestamp (the first Johannesburg postmark) was 23 March 1887. Examples of the Witwatersrand datestamp are occasionally found as arrival marks though very rarely on outgoing mail, this being the first we have handled.
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