Z.A.R. / TRANSVAAL
Postal History and Postal Stationery
POSTAL HISTORY
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1894 (17th November), entire printed letter and intact proxy form folded and addressed to King Williams Town, Cape Colony. Contents refer to a forthcoming EGM for ‘The Mulder’s Farm Gold Mining Co., Ltd.’ to be held in Johannesburg on the 19th December 1894. Bearing a single Vurtheim ½d grey (SG 175) tied by an unclear Johannesburg datestamp. The letter was readdressed to Queenstown, the additional postage being paid by affixing a Cape ½d grey-black (SG 48a) on top of the ZAR stamp which was then tied by a KING WILLIAMS TOWN (DE 8) hooded datestamp. With a QUEENS TOWN (DE 9) single circle arrival backstamp. Some splitting and the Cape ½d with pre-affixing fault. Most unusual and scarce examples of ½d printed matter rates for both territories.
Note: in ‘South African Mails’ (p422) Brian Trotter records the printed matter rate from Transvaal to “all of Southern Africa” was 1d per ounce at this date, the ½d per ounce rate only being introduced the following year on 1st September 1895. At the date of posting the Cape rate to Transvaal was ½d per ounce, which had been amended on the 26 September 1892 (Trotter, p121). It is unclear if the records are incorrect or the letter was underfranked.
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