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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
1 shilling green
January 1864
Orange Free State to the United Kingdom
July 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 'Is' in green black as evidence of the payment of the
internal OFS postage [two rates of 6d]. This is matched by the double
packet rate of 2s Od. These covers are rare and this cover is the only
recorded double rate cover.
The full story or the Farie correspondence [of which this is part] is told in the London Philatelist for
Aprill999 at page 91- The Farie Correspondence Some early covers from the Orange Free State.
This cover is recorded as number 11 in the table on page 96. The reason for the pen cancellation is not
known. It travelled to the United Kingdom on the Cambrian.
This cover and the other two in this collection are three out of the eigi.t known covers with Cape
Colony rectangular stamps of this period and treated in this way 
