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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
Diamond Fields to the United States
December 1875
Main feature
The 1 s 4d % ounce rate to the United States.
The postage rates to the USA via the UK by packet were in transition at this time having been ls 8d for
Yz oz between 1864 and 1874 and moving to this rate between 1874 and 1876 when they went down to
Is 2 Yz d. The Cape PO kept 3Yzd and credited the UK PO with Is O Yz d
It is believed that the ls Od stamp has been added but the whole franking may have been added . The cds
is that of Kimberley and the use of the Lined Circular Bar dumb defacer is late for 1875 [but see
Goldblatt p 180 para 3 for use outside the Diamond Fields Pos] . No backstamps . Not proven verdict. 
