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Registered mail: 1900 (3 Sep.) envelope from Zwagershoek (So
Registered mail: 1900 (3 Sep.) envelope from Zwagershoek (Somerset East) to Port Elizabeth bearing 1900 Table Bay 1d carmine pair and three singles, all cancelled by ZWAGERSHOEK SP 3 00 C.G.H. c.d.s cancels, backstamped with SOMERSET EAST SP 4 00 transit c.d.s. and next day oval Registered Port Elizabeth receiver, cover with a almost invisible crease affecting one stamp and has been sensibly silked, attractive. Rare, ex Dillaway.
SG 69.

The post office was opened in January 1885, closed June 1886, reopened as Scott’s Zwagershoek November 1891 and, in September 1896, reverted to Zwagershoek. In 1901 during the Anglo-Boer War the post office was ransacked twice by Boer forces, once on 16 March and secondly on 13 October under General J.C. Smuts. This is the item of record for the earliest recorded date.