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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
1 shilling green
January 1864
Orange Free State to the United Kingdom
May 1865
Main feature
Posting in the Orange Free State and transit to Cape Town to catch
the packet to the United Kingdom. The OFS origin is denoted by the
manuscript '6' in green black as evidence of the payment of the
internal OFS postage. This is matched by the single packet rate of ls
Od. These covers are rare.
The full story of this type of correspondence is told in the London Philatelist for April 1999 at page 91
- The Farie Correspondence Some early covers from the Orange Free State. This cover is not one of
those recorded in the article nor is it the cover to which reference is made in footnote 3.
This cover and the other two in this collection are three out of the eight known covers with Cape
Colony rectangular stamps of this period and treated in this way.
A letter from the author of the article is overleaf for a fuller description of this cover which was
carried on the Roman to the United Kingdom via St Helena, Ascension Island and Madeira.
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