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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
Underpaid mail
Tarkastad to Cape Town to the United Kingdom
July 1876
Main feature
The deleted manuscript figures.
The postage for a ship letter to the United Kingdom at this time was 6d for each \12 ounce from the 1st
July 1876 until the 1st October 1888 when the rate went down to 4d for each \12 ounce. This was the
same rate as the packet rate.
The 8d in a circle was applied at Plymouth [Plymouth Ship Letter on the back] and is made up as to
the deficient postage of 2d and a fine of one rate - 6d. The '5d' is the deficient postage of 2d and half
the fine due to the cape Post Office out of the 8d collected in the United Kingdom and was an
accountancy mark which needed to be deleted prior to delivery. The other marks are inexplicable
because they were wrong. 
