ZUID-AFRIKAANSCHE REPUBLIEK / TRANSVAAL
Postal History and Postal Stationery
POSTAL HISTORY
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1880 (20th September), envelope addressed to England ex the ‘Nairne’ correspondence endorsed at top ‘Via Kimberley & Cape Town’. Bearing a lower marginal horizontal pair of Transvaal QV ‘Bourne Head’ 1/- green (SG 138) tied by ‘13’ target-type cancellers with a proving LYDENBURG / TRANSVAAL (20 Sep) single circle datestamp struck at left. The adhesives additionally tied by a Cape Town (5 Oct) transit datestamp. Southall (27 Oct) arrival backstamp. A very fine and rare example of the 2/- double weight rate. Cover 102 in the Jorgensen 2010 Census. Ex ‘Greca’ (2021); David Underwood collection, and beautifully written up on his display page.
Note: Captain Stanford Norman McLeod Nairne (1841-1880) was Commander of F Company and Adjutant of the 94th Regiment and served in the Zulu War, Sekukuni War and the First Boer War. At this date A and F Companies of the 94th formed the garrison at Lydenburg. While en route to Pretoria, the 94th were ambushed on 20th December by the Boers at Bronkhorstspruit. Captain Nairne was wounded during the battle and died shortly afterwards.
This envelope was carried on the Castle Line’s ‘Warwick Castle’ which departed from Cape Town on the 5th October and arrived in Plymouth on the 26th October 1880.
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