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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
The use of revenue stamps to pay postage June 1867
The use of revenue stamps is described in Jurgens from page 127. The facts are that: revenue stamps were supplied by the Stamp Office to Distributors who were
normally magistrates or civil commissioners but never postmasters; most revenues used to pay postage are found on official letters where fees and disbursements such
as postage would be collected from the public; the large triangle defacer was first issued to the Stamp Office in Cape Town in 1837 and was used to deface revenue
stamps on documents. The design was copied by the Post Office into the small triangle defacer of 1853. In the case of the use of revenue stamps to pay postage the
stamps would have been cancelled by the magistrate or civil commissioner using the triangular defacer with the PO oval or circular date stamp being applied at the
post office on receipt. The Cape Government Gazette twice in November 1864 carried warning about the use of revenue stamps to pay postage. The postage paid is
8d being two rates of 4d for each Y, oz on an internal letter. Victoria became Victoria West. The cds of Schiet-Fontein is on the back [Putzel - very rare - see over]. 
