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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
THREE PENCE in red on Four Pence Blue
November 1879
Main feature
Grahams Town [3] via Cape Town to UK
January 1880
The packet rate to the UK was 6d for each '12 ounce from the 13th June
1876 until the 1st October 1888 when the rate was 4d for each% ounce.
This was the first surcharge to cope with the need for 3d stamps (pending a supply from
De la rue in London] following the reduction in postal rates for intemalletters to 3d for
Y2 ounce from 4d for Y2 ounce on the 1st November 1879.
The surcharge was done by Saul Solomon & Coin Cape Town. 5000 sheets were overprinted giving
1,200,000 stamps. The stamps were in the hands of the Cape PO on the 26th September 1879. 
