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Auction: 21030 - The 'Greca' Collection of Southern African Postal History
Lot: 360

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
1908 (12 Mar.) "red band" envelope (opened-out) to the Simmer Deep Mine in Germiston, bearing China C.I.P. 1c., 2c. (2) and 5c., all clearly tied, showing Nanking (18.3), Shanghai (21.3) and Aden (13.4) transit datestamps, and Germiston arival c.d.s. (13.5); also 1910 "red band" envelope (opened-out) to the same address, stamp missing, showing Peking, Shanghai Chinese (26.1) and French (27.1) P.O. transit datestamps and Germiston arrival c.d.s. (18.3). Photo for first

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