Z.A.R. / TRANSVAAL
Postal History and Postal Stationery
 -  POSTAL STATIONERY
T1188
GROET UIT ZUID AFRIKA 1901 (September), 1896 ½d green postal stationery card (H&G 3), the reverse with privately printed view of a Boer mounted on a horse surrounded by the Arms of the Republic with the caption below “Souvenir / GROET UIT ZUID AFRIKA / 1899-1900”, all printed in black. Addressed to Switzerland and bearing a pair of ½d on 2d (SG 243) tied by Pretoria (9 Sep) double circle datestamp. Triangular Pretoria censor mark in red and Oerlikon (6 Oct) arrival datestamp. The ZAR stamp was left uncancelled, presumably as it was then invalid. Rare, especially used. Unrecorded by Quik & Jonkers, Leeflang 25.
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