Lot 4009
1888 (28 Aug.) registered envelope (195x128mm.) from Otyimbingue to Nürnberg (4.10) via Cape Town (12.9), and London (2.10), with sender's endorsement "Heinrich Rosenhauer D.W. S.C. Südwestafrika" (Land Agent of the German South West Africa Company), bearing on front and back Cape of Good Hope rectangular ½d blocks of six, four (one stamp defective) and single, and 3d blocks of twelve, four, strip of three, pair, and single, cancelled by "300" barred obliterator, showing "Walvisch Bay/Aug 28 88" c.d.s. (day corrected by hand), "Registered/London" oval datestamp in red and "Registered Letter Office/Capetown" c.d.s., small cover faults, fine nine times rate franking of the utmost rarity.
Estimate 10,000 - 15,000
THE EARLIEST RECORDED COVER POSTMARKED WALFISH BAY. FROM THE FIRST GERMAN MAIL LEAVING THE TERRITORY. ONLY TWO COVERS ARE RECORDED FROM THIS MAIL (THE OTHER BEING THE EARLIEST FROM OTYIMBINGUE).
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