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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
Y2d grey-black, 1d red and 6d purple
September 1882, December 1885 and December 1884
Port Elizabeth to Italy
October 1885
R TH I S ~E:~~~;8~~~?o LETTER. ~ 0FFIG . E TO BE R~ISTIHIED AND A
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Main feature
The 1V2d V2 ounce rate to Italy .
The postage seems to have gone to this rate in 1880. Cape Colony did not join the UPU until the 1s t January
1895 whereas Italy and Great Britain had joined in July 1875. The 2\tid accountancy mark [in red crayon
underneath the London registered mark] is the credit to the United Kingdom and is the equivalent of the
UPU rate for a \ti ounce letter from the United Kingdom to Italy. The balance of 5d represents Cape postage
and the cost of sea transit to the United Kingdom. 
