CAPE: 1901 Port Elizabeth to Pretoria. Envelope franked 1d Hope Standing cds NO 21 with alongside the Pretoria double triangle censor mark. Shows also the dated overlap portion of Censor Seal type 7D and in violet the initialled double triangle Port Elizabeth censor cachet. Backstamped 25 Nov on arrival. Lovely markings. VF.
With the volume of mail emanating from Port Elizabeth, the censors were very busy and used mainly in violet the shallow double triangle (53x22mm) with or without manuscript initials. Roussouw/Pirie (1954/5) list only two marks for PE whereas Prime (2012) records four. Additionally we record in black a double triangle with large initials T.M. in centre, this on a cover dated 28 JU 01 from PE to Cape Town, the cover in the Dillaway collection. Prime lists this same censor mark (type MDR 1) for Modder River?.
