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Transvaal/ZAR Very scarce 1888 WITWATERSRAND cds. postcard and P.O. wax seal. See below.
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Condition:
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Location:
South Africa
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The name "Witwatersrand" described the geographical area that included the richest gold reef in the world, and was the term - often abbreviated to the "Rand" or "Reef" - used to refer to the area from Springs in the east to Randfontein in the west. Various post offices were opened on the Rand - with Johannesburg the principal one - and one of them, in 1887, named Witwatersrand itself.
The very scarce wax seal below with the "WITWATERSRAND P.O." impression used to seal a parcel.
A scarce post card mailed from Pretoria (4-9-1888) to Johannesburg where it received the Witwatersrand single circle arrival strike (5-9-1988)
