1880 Transvaal

Ref: GW2524
  • £190.00

1880 incoming envelope to Camden, Transvaal, endorsed 'Via Wakkerstroom' that has been sent from SIDMOUTH JU 24 80 with the 6d stamp tied by the Sidmouth numeral 712. Endorsed 'via Dartmouth, pr “Conway Castle”, June 25 1880' at the lower left of the cover, it arrived in Cape Town on July 17 and transited through Potchefstroom on 25 JUL with a transit cancel on the back. Camden was near Ermelo in the Eastern Transvaal. A very scarce early incoming cover to the Transvaal. The first Anglo Boer War broke out a few months later and the majority of ingoing mail seen is related to that.