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| Country: Cape of Good Hope Clear Subject: Destination mail Clear | Sort: Newest listed first |
;) ;) | Great Britain (Hereford College flap) to CAPE OF GOOD HOPE postal history: 1875 cover, with enclosed letter, to Miss Helen Ayliffe, Grahamstown with pair GB QV 6d Plate 14 tied Manchester "498" duplex dated FE 4 1875 showing CAPE TOWN MR 5 75 transit, reverse with Grahams Town MR 9 75 arrival, fine intact printed blue HEREFORD COLLEGE flap. £50 |
;) | Great Britain to CAPE OF GOOD HOPE postal history: 1875 covers, both with enclosed letter, to Miss Helen Ayliffe, Grahamstown marked "per R.M.S. via Plymouth NOV 25 1875" and "DE 5 1875" each with GB QV 1/- Plate 12 tied Manchester "498" duplex dated NO 25 1875 and DE 5 75 and both showing CAPE TOWN N/JA 1 76 transit, reverse of each with Grahams Town JA 5 76 arrival. The former was posted too late for the sailing specified and has small red handstruck circled cross on the address panel. £75 |
;) | Great Britain to CAPE OF GOOD HOPE postal history: 1875 cover, with enclosed letter, to Miss Helen Ayliffe, Grahamstown with GB QV 1/- Plate 12 tied Manchester "498" duplex dated DE 25 1875 showing CAPE TOWN D/JA 29 76 transit, reverse with Grahams Town FE 2 76 arrival. Carried by the "American" on her record breaking voyage to Cape Town. £40 |
;) | Great Britain to CAPE OF GOOD HOPE postal history: 1876 cover, with enclosed letter, to Miss Helen Ayliffe, Grahamstown with pair GB QV 6d Plate 15 tied Manchester "498" duplex dated JU 24 1876 showing CAPE TOWN B/JY 22 76 transit, reverse with Grahams Town JY xx 76 arrival. £40 |
;) | Great Britain to CAPE OF GOOD HOPE postal history: 1876 cover, with enclosed letter, marked per Steamer "Anglian" to Miss Helen Ayliffe, Grahamstown with GB QV 1/- Plate 9 tied Manchester "498" duplex dated SP 27 1876 showing CAPE TOWN G/OC 25 7(6) transit and purple "3" accountancy, reverse with Plymouth cds and Cape Packet Plymouth cds both dated SP 28 76 and Grahams Town OC 30 76 arrival, front soiled and creased. £30 |
;) ;) ;) | Surbiton Hill, Great Britain destination mail to Fort Murray, BRITISH KAFFRARIA postal history 1859 mourning cover to George Brownlow, Fort Murray, British Kaffraria, Cape of Good Hope from SURBITON HILL (no date slugs backstamp) with GB QV 6d pale lilac tied KINGSTON-ON-THAMES "422" duplex dated D/SP 5 59 showing red crayon 1d credited to the Cape Colony, reverse London S.W., DEVONPORT E/SP 6 59, red CAPE TOWN NO 16 1859 arrival, under flap "Ansd letter to Edward 12 Dec 1859". (Carried by the "Dane" packet boat). The area annexed to the British Cape Colony on 10 May 1835 as Queen Adelaide Province, but on 5 December 1835 the Cape Colony disallowed the annexation and it was renamed Queen Adelaide Land district with Grahamstown as its capital until 1847. On 17 December 1847 it was again annexed to the Cape Colony as British Kaffraria Colony with King William's Town as its capital. On 7 March 1860 British Kaffraria became a separate crown colony. It was finally re-incorporated into the Cape Colony on 17 April 1866. £425 |
;) ;) | JAMAICA to CAPE OF GOOD HOPE postal history 1854 wrapper marked "via Southampton" to John Clark, Graffe Riennet (sic), Cape of Good Hope, South Africa pmk'd red KINGSTON-JAMAICA-PAID SP 26 1854 and rated red 1/6d (triple 6d new rate introduced March 23 1854 to London), black "8", black 1/8, black 2/- due with London Paid (OC 13) and b/stamped Cape Town (DE 29) with red GRAAFF-REINETT arrival dated JA 4 1855, centrally folded, peripheral faults but a rare destination. £195 |
;) | JAMAICA to CAPE OF GOOD HOPE postal history 1853 wrapper marked "via London" to John Clark, care of Mr. Martin, Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth, South Africa pmk'd red KINGSTON-JAMAICA-PAID DE 11 1853 dbl-arc and rated red 2/- (double) with London JA 9 1854 and Cape Town MR 1 1854 backstamp, on arrival re-directed to Graff Reinet and rated black "8" and 1/4". Fragile internal folds, rare destination. £240 |
;) | BERMUDA to Belgian Congo forwarded Cape of Good Hope postal history 1941 (AU 4) KG6 3d, 6d, 1/- pmk'd Hamilton to British Liason Staff, Leopoldville re-directed Standard Bank of S. Africa in Cape Town, backstamped Elisabethville (SP 19) and Leoploldville (SP 21) with indistinct Johannesburg on front. £24 |