Z.A.R. / TRANSVAAL
Postal History and Postal Stationery
- POSTAL HISTORY
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1886 (19th June), ‘Schenck’ envelope addressed to Germany. Bearing four different duties of the 1885 Vurtheim issue comprising ½d grey, 2d brown-purple, 3d mauve and 4d bronze-green (SG 175b, 177, 180, 181a) each cancelled or tied by very fine strikes of the ‘16’ target-type canceller of Marabas Stad. Showing on the front a ‘2½d’ accountancy mark struck in red. The reverse with two strikes of MARABAS STAD / ZUID AFRIKA (single circle datestamps with only the ‘9’ of the date present), G.P.O. TRANSVAAL (JU 28), Cape Town (JY 7), London (JY 27) and Siegen (28 7) transit / arrival backstamps. A very scarce and most attractive four-colour combination franking and a wonderful example of the 9½d per half-ounce rate to Germany.
Note: the writer, Prof. Dr. Adolf Schenk was a noted German Geologist who travelled to GSWA in 1884 and in 1886 to the ZAR where he investigated the goldfields at Barberton, Lydenburg, and the Witwatersrand.
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| £575 |
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