Lot 212
Cape of Good Hope and mostly South African Colonies, group of over 55 Nineteenth or early Twentieth Century covers in cigar box, including Cape 1873 Registered letter accompanying receipt cover to be, retained by the Post Office from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth, 1888 cover from Kei Bridge to London, stamps 1d (4) and 2d with "647" BONC cancels, two "POSTED LATE" covers bearing boxed handstamps, one 1889 to Springfield, Mass., the other 1893 to Port Elizabeth, another "TOO LATE" cover, 1892 from Port Elizabeth to Richmond, 1896 Registered cover to Vienna, Austria, two different EASTERN T.P.O. picture postcards to the U.K., 1900 cover to Bulawayo with FOUND OPEN & OFFICIALLY CLOSED IN THE POST OFFICE label on reverse, 1901 Book Post printed label for Photographs bearing six 1d "Standing Hope," Ex Bertolaja, much other Boer War material with a P.O.W. cover from St. Helena to Bloemfontein bearing 1880 perf. 14 1d, Transvaal 1900 cover to Johannesburg bearing 1896-97 ½d to 1s (8 values) cancelled by violet oval Modderspruit datestamps, extensive range of postal stationery with Orange Free State and Transvaal, 1903 Registered cover to New Zealand, Orange Free State 1906 picture postcard to Koffyfontein bearing Edward ½d with T.P.O. SOUTH O.R.C. 2 c.d.s., much fine to very fine though some small faults to be expected, many colorful and attractive items, a valuable lot worth careful inspection., ex Dillaway.
Estimate $2,500 - 3,000.
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