BECHUANALAND
Postal History, Postmarks
POSTAL HISTORY
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| 1861 (3rd May) stampless entire addressed to ‘Robbert Moffat Junior’ at the ‘Croe Man Ensutuiet’, a rather quaint phonetic version for ‘Kuruman Institute’. The message, written in Dutch is headed ‘Jakalsvleij Meij de 3rd 1861’ (situated in the Clanwilliam district) and concerns a financial matter. There are no postal markings and the entire would have been carried privately by whatever means were available, possibly by missionaries. At this date, Kuruman had no postal agency. Some stains, not overly detracting from this wonderfully charming early mail to the mission station at Kuruman, which was established in the early 1820s by the missionary Dr. Robert Moffat. |
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