JeffS
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Post by JeffS on Apr 18, 2021 14:37:12 GMT
A couple pages from my recent Orange Free State postcard project:
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JeffS
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Post by JeffS on Aug 15, 2021 20:54:13 GMT
The unused cards are common.
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Aug 28, 2021 7:28:11 GMT
I am looking forward to the arrival of a new addition to my Orange Free State postal cards.
 Images are seller's.
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Aug 28, 2021 9:59:14 GMT
Well done to find that. A fantastic card JeffS, a rare item indeed. Very limited mail exists into land lockedBasutoland in the 1890s. There were only a handful of Europeans in the country at that time |
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Aug 28, 2021 14:48:37 GMT
vikingeckThank you for taking time to express your appreciation for this card. Jeff
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Aug 28, 2021 16:01:48 GMT
I have a good friend here in Aberdeen who collects Basutoland . He is quite envious and would be more than happy to pay the pencil price of "R 130", SA Rand for it  ( Since that is £6.50 or a bit over $8 I guess you had to pay a bit more !) |
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JeffS
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Post by JeffS on Aug 28, 2021 17:21:32 GMT
I had a chuckle over that "price"
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Aug 28, 2021 17:41:01 GMT
vikingeck Here is a second card to Basutoland from my card collection:
It has since been cleaned up with hinge remnants removed and pencil annotations erased.
Note that the Basutoland postmark was erroneously identified as Mafeking.
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Sept 5, 2021 1:36:47 GMT
A new Orange River Colony card arrived today,
Posted at BLOEMFONTEIN, addressed to MORIJA BASUTOLAND October 6 1901 NPR censor handstamp of Major N. P. Richards, chief censor.
Message relates that her sister is expecting a baby in 2 months, and that her sister's husband and driver were murdered and bodies not found for 5-6 days.
Adds that "Nobody knows the murderer but a friend says it were no boer," all in a rather detached tone.
EDIT: The partial transit mark ...ASE... is most likely MASERU BASUTOLAND, the capitol city.
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JeffS
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Post by JeffS on Sept 7, 2021 16:24:54 GMT
This spring brought an example of the first bordered Borckenhagen post card, thus Setting 1, Die 1. (no flags L & R)
A likely dispatch postmark is lightly struck over the coat of arms.
Addressed to Port Elizabeth with an unreadable (to me) transit on the message side.
Card is dated June 8 1889.
I am told this once graced the collections of mssrs Raay, Broekman and Bezeidenhout,
names unfamiliar to me as I am new to this area. I guess I'm in good company?
Tim Bartshe in his exhibit mentions that there are 9 used cards extant.
I understand this number has grown considerably since.
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Sept 28, 2021 18:33:34 GMT
The Houston show added a couple more Orange Free State postal cards to my collection, this the locally fabricated and printed 1d card.
I had the unused copy, the used is my first.
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JeffS
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Post by JeffS on Oct 11, 2021 0:09:42 GMT
One Penny De La Rue card to Germany, 1900.
Posted at SENEKAL March 2, through BLOEMFONTEIN March 3,
onward through PRETORIA, Z.A.R. (SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC) date not clear.
Received at OELS GERMANY April 13
Significant postmark is the oval POSTMASTER GENERAL marking used as a censor handstamp at Bloemfontein.
The handwritten message in English to Germany is unusual and one can see evidence of word translations in pencil in the message.
The line "There are thousands of those bloodthirsty & landgrabbers (meaning the English) in South Africa." is notable to the times.
The Boer War is now nearly 5 months underway. |
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JeffS
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Post by JeffS on Jun 7, 2022 22:28:38 GMT
I have picked up a couple more cards since last post, here's one of them:
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JeffS
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Post by JeffS on Jun 10, 2022 20:47:58 GMT
New in today's mail:
1-penny De La Rue card posted from the Cape to Bloemfontein, charged 1-penny due as the card had no postal validity used from outside the Orange Free State.
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( Since that is £6.50 or a bit over $8 I guess you had to pay a bit more !)
