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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
2d chocolate- brown
March 1897
Mossel Bay to the United Kingdom
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May 1903
The rate is the Imperial Penny rate [1d for each :Y2 ounce from the 1st
September 1899 to the 31st December 1906 and then 1d for each ounce
from the 1st January 1907).
The UPU rate was 2 1 /2d for each % ounce after Cape Colony joined the
UPU on the 1st January 1895 and then 2%d for the first ounce and 1 %d
for each succeeding ounce from the 1st January 1907.
The registration fee was 4d.
The envelope is the advertising envelope of the Mossel Bay Advertiser.
The KEVII 1 d stamp was issued in December 1902 but the KEVII 2d brown stamp was not issued until
October 1904. 
