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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
Underpaid foreign mail
Port Elizabeth to the United Kingdom
November 1883
Main feature
The manuscript 7 and the handst~ck 1 Od.
The postage to the United Kingdom was 6d for each Yz ounce from the 1st July 1876 until the 1st
October 1888 when the rate went down to 4d for each Yz ounce. ·
Cape Colony did not have the equivalent of the British accountancy mark 'Deficient postage/Colonies
share of fine'. The 7 d represents the deficient postage of 4d and a half share of the 6d fine die to cape
Colony from the United Kingdom. The I Od represents the deficient postage of 4d and the whole fine of
6d collected from the addressee in the United Kingdom. 
