Cape of Good Hope 1882 Proving Cover BONC 304 Blands Drift

1882 PROVING COVER BARRED NUMERAL 304 BLANDS DRIFT: Envelope from the Horak correspondence franked Hope Seated 2d tied by light but clear BONC 304 of Blands Drift (this the item of record for earliest date recorded). Showing also the town cds OC 15 (year slug reversed - 28). This cds (Frescura SC.DOT) is dated more than EIGHT years earlier than the present record (Frescura 2018). Backstamped on arrival OC 18. F, some light toning. An uncommon BONC. The PMG Report of 1875 listed the Gouritz River Postal Agency for the first time as Bland's Drift.