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;) | ORANGE RIVER, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel (CDS) B/DE 3 00 on re-united hinged together 1d, 3d (SG.59,60). £10 |
;) | ADELAIDE, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel (CDS) MR 15 93 on 1d (SG.49a). £8 |
;) | MQUANDULI, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel (CDS) JY 31 08 on KE7 1d (SG.71). £9 |
;) | EAST LONDON, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel (CDS) SP 13 98 on 1/- (SG.67) £5 |
;) | EMGWALI, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel (CDS) A/JY 5 05 on KE7 ½d (SG.70). £5 |
;) | VRYBURG B.B., Bechuanaland postmark/cancel (CDS) DE 24 98 on CGH 5/- (SG.67). £12 |
;) | CAPE OF GOOD HOPE postal history 1839 lengthy cross-written entire headed "Bedford Wednesday Feb'y 6th 1839" and marked "Post paid March 8th" to Mrs Maclear, Royal Observatory, Cape Town with red ink PAID-SHIP LETTER/(crown) 9 MR 9 1839/LONDON and black SHIP LETTER/(crown)/CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. £150 |
;) | PRUSSIA to CAPE OF GOOD HOPE postal history 1860 stampless wrapper "per Royal Mail Str via Plymouth via Ostend" to Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope with red strikes FRANKFURT 5 SEP 1860, circled "P.", LONDON PAID SP 5 60 displaying CAPE TOWN OC 14 1860 arrival on top flap. £125 |
;) | 232, Cape of Good Hope postmark on NIEUWE REPUBLIEK stamp on 3d issue. £85 |
;) | MIDLAND T.P.O.2 railway postmark on TRANSVAAL stamps dated 4 DEC 11 UP on block of four KE7 1d (SG.274), light top right corner crease. £18 |
;) | FRANCE to CAPE OF GOOD HOPE postal history 1855 (FE 12) entire written Paris to Monsieur le Consul de France, Cape de Bonne Esperance with 20c, 40c, 80c plus excised missing stamp arriving Cape of Good Hope MY 5 1855, adhesives with faults. £120 |
;) | MIDLAND UP, Cape of Good Hope railway postmark H/FE 14 98 on 6d pair, creased perfs 1/- piece. £14 |
;) | MIDLAND UP, Cape of Good Hope railway postmark dated C/17 JA 98 on ½d, 6d, 1/- piece. £18 |
;) | MIDLAND T.P.O. DOWN, Cape of Good Hope railway postmark in red ink dated SP 24 91 on 1d (SG.49a), creased corner. £15 |
;) | MIDLAND T.P.O. DOWN, Cape of Good Hope railway postmark on BECHUANALAND stamps dated M/13 OC 00 on horiz. pair GB ovp'd QV ½d vermilion (SG.7). £60 |
;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) | BRITISH KAFFRARIA WRAPPER from a SURVIVOR OF THE H.M.S. BIRKENHEAD TROOPSHIP DISASTER In response for requests for testimonies from survivors the only surviving letter from the Cape: 1858 wrapper docketted "Andrews 20 Nov 1858" (the content removed but published) to David Seton, Portabello, near Edinburgh marked "Registered at King W Town 25.11.58" and "K.W.T. C.G. Hope" at lower left with two damaged copies 4d blue tied triangular handstamp with CAPE PACKET DEVONPORT JA 26 1859, red Crown/REGISTERED and red oval REGISTERED/LONDON 27 JA 59 alongside address panel, reverse red CAPETOWN DE 2 1858 transit, black Edinburgh and blue PORTABELLO JA 28 1859 arrivals. Younger brother (Major) David Seton was quite determined from an early stage to gather as many facts as possible. He met many of the survivors personally and continued with his determination that the heroism displayed by his elder brother Alex should always be associated with the ‘Birkenhead’. Personal interviews, and correspondence with testimonies from survivors, continue as late as 1858-59 and he printed a little book on the Wreck of the ‘Birkenhead’ in Edinburgh in 1861, and again in 1873 and 1890 which was initially intended for private use and not for publication or sale. The Andrews testimony is published on pages 134/5 in "A Deathless Story" by A.C. Addison being a 318 page account of the Birkenhead. £7250 |
;) | CAPE TOWN, CAPE COLONY postmark on TRANSVAAL stamp dated I/AU 9 80 on Transvaal QV 6d (SG.137a), minor perf. faults. £36 |
;) | RONDEBOSCH, CAPE COLONY postmark on TRANSVAAL stamp dated I/JA 23 83 on EEN PENNY on QV 4d (SG.170), blunt corner perf. £48 |
;) | MARIBOGO, Cape of Good Hope postmark MY 26 01 on 1d (SG.59a), stamp slightly tired. £14 |
;) | TINA BRIDGE, Cape Of Good Hope postmark AP 19 11 on KE7 1d (SG.71) piece. No postmark previously seen for this office, Putzel unrecorded £28 |