BECHUANALAND
Postal History, Postmarks
- POSTAL HISTORY
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| AB4307 |
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| 1887 (18th May), stampless ‘O.H.M.S.’ entire, signed at upper right ‘E C Baxter’ (later PMG of British Bechuanaland) and endorsed ‘C.C. Office / Vryburg’ at lower left. With printed notice on the reverse in Dutch (translation: NOTICE / OLD STELLALAND DEBT / PROMISSORY NOTES AND TITLEDEEDS TO ERVEN IN VRYBURG) requesting all persons owing unpaid promissory notes to the late Stellaland Government to provide security within 2 months or face legal proceedings. Also, persons holding title deeds to redeem them by 30 June 1887, pay quitrent due, or forfeit such Erven to the Crown. ‘By Order of his Honour the Administrator / P.J. Truter, Civil Commissioner, Vryburg 14th April 1887’. Addressed locally, then readdressed to Bloemhof, S.A.R. Showing a light strike of the scarce ‘GEADVERTEERD EN ONAFGEHAALD.’ (Advertised and Unclaimed) boxed cachet struck in purple, applied in the S.A.R. Backstamped with BLOEMHOF / TRANSVAAL (23 Jul) and Kimberley (25 Jul) single circle datestamps. The entire never reached the intended recipient and was eventually forwarded to Cape Town five months later where it received a Returned Letter Office / Cape Town (24 Oct) datestamp, struck on the front. Some faults though rare. A superb end piece to a Stellaland exhibit. |
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| £475 |
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