The individuals who took advantage of the British Inland Mails included missionaries, business people and a correspondent to the “Times of London” to which address some of the most spectacular frankings are recorded
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Most combination covers which include the previous four colonies and Zululand fall into four categories: Pre-Union, Unofficial Interprovincial Period, Official Interprovincial Period, Union Group 1 September 1913 to 31 December 1937
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De La Rue’s first design and printing of a Natal stamp was that of the 1/- value. Previously, following its taking over of the contract to prepare Natal stamps from Perkins, Bacon, it had sufficed to use that company’s plates and prepare the 1d and 6d in new colours; this occurred between 1862 and 1866.
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The beauty of the Natal countryside, its parks, beaches, rivers, mountains, hotels, Zulu people, public buildings in the main towns and scenes made famous by the Boer War, were amongst the many topics which provided a fruitful source for South African post card manufacturers
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TA unique type of combination cover, consisting of mixed Natal and Madagascar BIM frankings, was first highlighted (to this author’s knowledge) in the ‘Bill Hart’ Cavendish Auction of June 25/26, 1993.
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