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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
4d blue and 1 s Od green
January 1877 and December 1885
Grahams Town to the United Kingdom
September 1890
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Four rates of 4d for each 1h ounce totalling 1 s 4d
The postage to the United Kingdom by Royal Mail Steamer i.e a contract ship was 4d for each Y2 ounce
from the 1s t October 1888 until the 31st December 1890 after which the Y2 ounce rate dropped to 2 Yzd. It
had been 6d for each Yz ox from the 1st July 1876. 
