CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
Revenues, Railways
REVENUES
AC1116
Revenue 1906 (20th December), four page printed Deed of Transfer document (212x342mm) for ‘The Royal Hotel (1906) Limited’, situated on Plein Street, Cape Town. The transaction value was £30,000 and the stamp duty was receipted by the affixing of £107 in revenue stamps, comprising one ‘Hope Standing’ £5 grey-green and blue-green, FIVE examples of the £20 grey-green and deep carmine and one KEVII £2 grey-green and yellow-green (Barefoot 142, 143, 156), each stamp tied / cancelled with DEEDS REGISTRY / CAPE TOWN (20 DE 06) crowned oval datestamps. A spectacular and very rare franking.
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