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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
Underpaid foreign mail
Kimberley to the United Kingdom
September 1886
Main feature
The handstruck ls/- in a circle and the B16 mark of the Plymouth to
Bristol TPO.
The postage to the United Kingdom was 6d for each V, ounce from the I st July 1876 until the I st October
1888 when the rate went down to 4d for each V, ounce.
CGH noted this letter as being two rates [2 in manuscript] and noted a 9d accountancy mark which after
arrival in the UK was obliterated by the B 16. The 1 s/- charge mark was applied in the Plymouth to Bristol
TPO. CGH claimed 6d deficient postage and 3d of the 6d fme on an underpaid letter. The second 3d was
added in the UK to make ls Od due on delivery which was equal, on a second step letter to double the
deficient postage . 
