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Auction: 21030 - The 'Greca' Collection of Southern African Postal History
Lot: 358

Transvaal
Incoming Mail from China
The hostiities of the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, resulted in most of the gold mines being taken out of production. After the war, the highest economic priority for the new Transvaal colonial government was to get the mines producing gold again. For this purpose Chinese labourers were imported
1906 (3 Jan.) "red band" envelope (opened-out) from Paoting to the New Modderfontein Gold Mine at Benoni, bearing China C.I.P. 10c. and showing Shanghai bi-lingual (8.1) and British P.O. (8.1), Colombo (24.1) and arrival (7.3) datestamps. Photo

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