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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4006

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection
The First British Occupation
1795 (21 Sept.) entire letter from Capt. Spranger from H.M.S. Rattlesnake, under his command, at Table Bay to London and despatched by Capt. Hardy to the U.K., no postal markings; written five days after the surrender of the Dutch garrison and with text including "After a fatiguing campaign of 6 weeks....in the new capacity of Col. of a Battalion of 500 seamen... Final conquest... my exertions have received the most flattering testimony of General Craig & the Admirals approbation....enclosed is a copy of the Admirals letter"; the outer wrapper (professionally restored) docketed "Sept. 1795. J.W.S. Acc. of Capture of the Cape of Good Hope & Admiral Elphinstone's letter to John". An historic letter from this important engagement

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