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Post by smauggie on Dec 21, 2018 3:00:57 GMT
Capetown, South Africa
January 17, 1981
What makes this cover special is the NCR meter on the cover. These were only issued in post offices. As in this case these meters are usually found on registered covers. The catalog number of this meter is PO1.1. The cover was also forwarded form Durban, South Africa to Mesa, AZ, USA. I never could make out the design in the wax seal, though it is neat to see one on a cover from the 1980's. 
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Londonbus1
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Post by Londonbus1 on Jun 22, 2019 9:40:51 GMT
Does anyone know anything about this cover. Doing some research but not getting very far due to annoyances like work, phone calls, bad neck pain and other jobs. But it will be done.........any help would be appreciated ! (covers are not my strong point)  |
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Londonbus1
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Post by Londonbus1 on Jun 22, 2019 9:48:30 GMT
'Tomorrow is another day' !! That's what they say. Yesterday my brief searches turned up zero ! Today the whole world is opening up !  G.Budrick & Co is an Art Gallery and they also produced postcards that look very attractive. The Cape Town business must have produced covers at some point because I just found another one similar to mine that went unsold on eBay at £150.00 !!!!!  (Well, it was a bit poor, condition-wise). So I'm getting there. |
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kosmo
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Post by kosmo on Jun 22, 2019 10:12:35 GMT
'Tomorrow is another day' !! That's what they say. Yesterday my brief searches turned up zero ! Today the whole world is opening up ! G.Budrick & Co is an Art Gallery and they also produced postcards that look very attractive. The Cape Town business must have produced covers at some point because I just found another one similar to mine that went unsold on eBay at £150.00 !!!!! (Well, it was a bit poor, condition-wise). So I'm getting there. Kap der Guten Hoffnung 1901, Boer War; soldiers parcel label reminiscient of mulready designs franked with 1d concessionary rate. Very attractive item. www.auction-galleries.de/en/auctions/5/catalogue/lots/217 |
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Post by kosmo on Jun 22, 2019 10:16:26 GMT
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kosmo
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Post by kosmo on Jun 22, 2019 10:22:21 GMT
My search led only to such results.
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Post by luciano on Jun 19, 2020 11:51:59 GMT
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JeffS
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Post by JeffS on Mar 21, 2021 16:57:33 GMT
Two covers franked with the 6d orange tree definitives:
Top: Registered 6-pence single franking to Canada -- 2-pence Empire Rate surface letter + 4-pence registration, 1940. (A distance of 10,000+ miles, 36 days transit.)
Bottom Strip of 4 -- 2-shillings airmail to the United states, 1937.
 Can someone scan the appropriate pages for this stamp - - types, printings etc.
from a Stanley Gibbons catalog (or any other reference) and PM or email them to me?
(I have Scott)
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banknoteguy
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What I collect: 19th Century US, High denomination US (> $1), 19th century covers US, Indian Feudatory States and most recently I acquired a BigBlue [with about 5,000 stamps] and pristine pages.
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Post by banknoteguy on Sept 29, 2021 17:05:27 GMT
My only cover from South Africa. Registered from Vryburg (24 Aug 1922) to Chicago(1 Oct 1922) via New York (28 Sep 1922). It also has two five digit numbers on the face that I know not who stamped them or why they were stamped. And a nice intact wax seal.
So about 5 weeks from Capetown to New York via ship(s). Probably faster than what I would experience today.
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JeffS
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Post by JeffS on Sept 29, 2021 17:18:06 GMT
Those 5-digit numbers are US registered mail numbers, 40298 applied as it entered the registered mail stream in NYC. the 36451applied at Chicago.
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Post by sudbury12000 on Jan 31, 2023 2:18:15 GMT
Found this in the back of a collection I bought. I was really after the stamps, but there were 3 of these stuffed in the back of the pages. No notation, didn't really catch my eye until I sorted them. All three had Ceylon postage and all were from POW camps. I kept this one as it was from one POW camp to another. The whole collection cost me less than $50USD, I sold two of these covers for over $400 each. I was shocked, starting bid at .99c. Would have loved to have the contents, but they are lost to time.  |
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Post by daniel on Mar 20, 2024 1:36:57 GMT
A Century of Postage Stamps An attractive First Day Cover the Centenary of the Cape of Good Hope Triangles 1853-1953. 1st September 1953. Great cachet.  |
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Post by rod222 on Mar 20, 2024 1:57:15 GMT
A Century of Postage Stamps An attractive First Day Cover the Centenary of the Cape of Good Hope Triangles 1853-1953. 1st September 1953. Great cachet. From my query on "C.P" ? Cape Province. a former province of S South Africa; replaced in 1994 by the new provinces of Northern Cape, Western Cape, Eastern Cape, and part of North-West. |
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Post by clivel on Mar 20, 2024 5:28:21 GMT
From my query on "C.P" ? Cape Province. a former province of S South Africa; replaced in 1994 by the new provinces of Northern Cape, Western Cape, Eastern Cape, and part of North-West.
Correct on CP being Cape Province, Goodwood is actually a suburb of the city of Cape Town.
Clive
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(Well, it was a bit poor, condition-wise).
