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Transvaal/ZAR: Unique "KOCKSOORD" postmark on cover. See below.
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On offer is a Registered official "In Dienst" cover from the "Verantwoordelike Klerk - Kocksoord" with Kocksoord postmark (3 OCT '99) - postamark hitherto unseen - to the well-known postcard manufacturer Sallo Epstein, in Johannesburg.
Kocksoord was proclaimed a gold-diggings on 26 September 1889 on the farm Middelvlei near Randfontein. However, after extensive prospecting, it was closed on 23 September 1892 only to be re-surveyed in 1896 by H. J. Luttig.
Putzel states that the township was named after General J. H. Kock, a boer leader and soldier, born in the Cape in 1836, who trekked north with the Trekkers and took part in the Battle of Boomplaats. He was a member of the Executive Council of the Volksraad and died after being wounded at the Battle of Elandslaagte in Natal in 1889. Eric Rosenthal, however, states that Kocksoord was named after one Servaas de Kock, a surveyer in Prtoria and later Assistant Surveyor-General of the ZAR.
The post office at Kocksoord opened in September 1899 and closed in July 1903.
The cover has a tear at bottom right corner and at top centre, and is a bit soiled as per scans below, but a remarkable item.
