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;) | AGOTIME KPETOE, Gold Coast postmark/cancel (T.21) */13 FE 60 on QE2 ½d (SG.153a), creased. £4 |
;) | FWIDIEM, Gold Coast postmark/cancel (T.21) */5 MR 57 on QE2 3d (SG.158). £12 |
;) ;) ;) | 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 |
;) | 922, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on ½d (SG.61a). £5 |
;) | ALICEDALE, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel (D/R) B/3 JU 11 on KE7 6d (SG.76), thinned. £4 |
;) | KIMBERLEY, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel (CDS) F/JU 8 92 on 5/- (SG.54). £5 |
;) | ROSEBANK, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel (CDS) G/NO 8 93 on 2½d (SG.56). £7 |
;) | 309, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on 1d (SG.59a). £6 |
;) | 226, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on "3" on 3d CC wmk (SG.37), some soiling. £5 |
;) | 230, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on 3d CC wmk (SG.39a). £7 |
;) | 227, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on 5/- (SG.54). £7 |
;) | 227, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on 5/- (SG.54). £7 |
;) | 588, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on 1d (SG.49). £5 |
;) | 442, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on 1d (SG.49a). £5 |
;) | DABALA, Gold Coast postmark/cancel (T.21) 20 JU 53 on QE2 4d (SG.159). £4 |
;) | DOMIABRA, Gold Coast postmark/cancel (T.21) 23 JY 52 on KG6 1½d (SG.137). £5 |
;) | AKPAFU MEMPEASEM, Gold Coast postmark/cancel (T.21) 14 AP 55 on QE2 2d (SG.156). £7 |
;) | 230, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on 3d CC wmk (SG.39a). £8 |
;) | 15, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on 6d CC wmk (SG.25b). £5 |
;) | 508, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on 3d CA wmk (SG.43). £6 |