CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
Griqualand West, Mafeking, Vryburg
GRIQUALAND WEST
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| GRIQUALAND WEST / Postal History 1872 (28th March), envelope addressed to England bearing two examples of the Cape 1/- deep green (watermark Crown CC, with outer frame-lines, SG 26) cancelled with barred triangle cancellations and with Cape Town (4 April) transit datestamp struck on the front. The reverse with a fine dispatch strike of the DU TOITS PAN (1872 / MR 28) Dated Town Oval and a Leeds (16 May) arrival datestamp. The envelope open on three sides and small piece missing on reverse (clear of postmarks). A very scarce high franking item of mail emanating from the diamond fields before Griqualand West became a Crown Colony in January 1873 and the issue of overprinted stamps in 1877. Putzel records the opening of Du Toits Pan in March 1872, which must make this one of the earliest recorded strikes. |
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