ORANGE FREE STATE
Orange Free State
REPUBLICAN PERIOD
- BRITISH OCCUPATION
- POSTAL HISTORY
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POSTAL HISTORY 1908 (May), envelope containing a printed wedding invitation. Addressed to Heilbron, bearing a single KEVII ½d yellow-green (SG 148) tied by a ‘16’ in triangle. With Heilbron 12 May) arrival backstamp. The envelope was sent at the unsealed ½d letter rate. Charming and very scarce.
Note: in Volume 1 of Postmarks of South Africa by Ralph Putzel, it is stated on page 28: ‘Triangular Numerals: used only on ½d postage stamps, they are thought to have been a cheap rate obliterator (between 1 and 60). Few have so far been identified.’
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