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Auction #127 begins on 06 Nov 2025

Jurgens (A. A.)

THE HANDSTRUCK LETTER STAMPS OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE FROM 1792 TO 1853 AND THE POSTMARKS FROM 1853 TO 1910 (1943)

Foreword by General Jan Smuts

Published: A.A. Jurgens, Cape Town, 1943

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $42

Approximately:

Estimate: $70

Bidding opens: 6 Nov 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 13 Nov 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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Publisher's red cloth binding with gilt titles on front panel and spine.

xiv + 140pp. Frontispiece portrait of Smuts, many illustrations, 2 maps.

Foreword by General Jan Smuts - one of approximately 60-70 he wrote in his lifetime.

Binding tight and contents clean. Larger format.

'The fame of Mr. Jurgens' work preceded it. Philatelists, whether specially interested in Cape stamps or not, knew that a work of vital importance was in the making as an outcome of long years of patient study and research. It may be said without fear of contradiction that the result more than justifies one's anticipations. This is a book that must take high rank among those which have been called into being by the romantic history of the stamps of the Cape of Good Hope.' - The South African Philatelist

  • Binding Condition: Very Good
  • Overall Condition: Very Good


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