MRS. ERNEST OPPENHEIMER POSTCARD (1906) IN SOUTH AFRICA

  Postcard addressed to Mrs.Ernest Oppenheimer, Kimberley, South Africa, 1906, original, text in french, postmarks Kenley (London) and Kimberley (South Africa), 135 x 87 mm, condition: good.   Translation of text from French to English (with errors), 'Thank you for your card, Am happy that you had a good trip, Your new life is starting, Be Happy!  Raymond sends his best wishes (friendship, love) with the thanks (sic) of the both of us. Affectionately yours,  (Pino or Dino or Jino).   Sir Ernest Oppenheimer joined Dunkelbuhler & Company, a London diamond brokerage, in 1897, and was sent out to South Africa in 1902.    Mary Lina "May Lina" Pollack, the daughter of an english stockbroker married Ernest Oppenheimer in London in June of 1906 and left for the diamond center of Kimberley in the Northern Cape (South Africa) shortly afterwards. This postcard arrived in Kimberley on the 15th August 1906, less than two months after the wedding. The couple had two sons. It is noteworthy that the London postmark is Kenley, to the south of the capital and lying in what is known as the stockbroker belt, a' green'  residential corridor or belt favoured by the professional classes. The offices of Dunkelbuhler & Company were in Hatton Garden.  The Hatton Garden Diamond District is an area within Holborn, depicted in pictorial on the card.                 Sir Ernest Oppenheimer was associated with De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation                  De Beers is currently (2016) responsible for approximately 35% of the world's diamond production.                             Sir Ernest Oppenheimer is regarded as the founder of modern South Africa.                                                                                                    Offered by an established dealer in rare books and documents located in Johannesburg.