Transvaal pilgrims rest

Proving cover with ring type numeral canceller "14" and single circle Pilgrims Rest datestamp (26-4-1887) with inverted year slug, forwarded via Lydenburg (27-4-1887), GPO Transvaal (29-4-1887) and Cape GPO (6-5-1887) to England (1-6-1887). The 2 x 4d Vurtheims make up the 8d rate to the United Kingdom. Rare cover. Condition as per scans below.

Buy Pilgrims Rest (Transvaal), W Stein, European Hotel Token (Circa 1890-1911) for R1.00

Buy Transvaal: Scarce unused PILGRIMS REST postcard. See below. for R380.00

Buy Pilgrims Rest and the Boer War 1899-1902 by J O Schultz for R300.00

VERY RARE VELD POND JUST OVER 900 WERE STAMPED IN A HAND PRESS AT PILGRIMS REST IN 1902 BOER WAR DAYS. GETTING ONE OF THE MOST SOURGHT AFTER COINS IN THE WORLD (DELIVERY AT BUYERS RISK. DONT LOSE THIS ONE

Buy Vintage 1873 Pilgrims Rest ZAR Shovel / Spade Souvenir of when gold rush started for R1,000.00

  On offer is a postcard posted from Mashanghaan's Rest, care of Bonne-Fooi postal agency (19-6-1894), located between Carolina and Machadodorp, via Hlomo Hlom (20-6-1894) to Barberton (23-6-1894). The postal agency at Hlomo Hlom operated from July 1887 to 1899, and postal items bearing it's postamrk are rare. Very little is known of Mashanghaan's Rest, and the "C. E. Kershaw" purple oval handstamp on the reverse makes this a unique item. Central horizontal fold. See scans below.        

    Early unused historic postcard of Pilgrim's Rest showing town prior to forestation.                

Buy Kriegsgefangenenpost Postkarte Stalag VIIIB to Pilgrims Rest, South Africa for R400.00

Buy Airgraph / Fotobrief - 1943 Christmas Greetings Watford, England, To Pilgrims Rest, South Africa for R400.00

AMAZING  HARDCOVER BOOK  WRITTEN BY FRANCOIS MALAN SOME OF THE CONTENT HEADINGS: THE ALLURE OF KRUGER'S GOLD WAR-TIME PRODUCTION OF GOLD  AND THE MISSING OUNCES ESCAPING ALONG THE  DELGOA BAY RAILWAY LINE THE WONDERING GOVERNMENT AND THEIR GOLD WHERE IS THE GOLD?     GET THIS GREAT OFFER NOW   AT THE RELEASE PRICE OF R 750 ---------------------------------------------------------------- EXTRACT FROM THE CHAPTER TITLED GOLD  PRODUCTION IN THE  ZUID-AFRIKAANSCHE REPUBLIEK THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD CHANGED THE FORTUNES OF THE TRANSVAAL. THE FIRST DISCOVERY WAS MADE IN 1872 AT THE EERSTELING GOLD FIELD IN THE PIETERSBURG GREENSTONE BELT (CLOSE TO MODERN DAY POLOKWANE). THIS WAS FOLLOWED IN 1873 BY THE DISCOVERY OF ALLUVIAL GOLD AT PILGRIM'S REST AND SURROUNDING AREAS. AN INTERESTING CONNECTION BETWEEN PILGRIM'S REST AND THE KRUGER MILLIONS IS DESCRIBED IN A LATER CHAPTER. THESE EARLY GOLD DISCOVERIES SLIGHTLY IMPROVED THE FINANCES OF THE ZUID-AFRIKAANSCHE REPUBLIEK AND EVEN ALLOWED PRESIDENT THOMAS BURGERS TO STRIKE THE FIRST GOLD PONDE FOR THE REPUBLIC 1874. UNFORTUNATELY, BY 1876, HE WAS UNPOPULAR AND THE REPUBLIC WAS SLIDING INTO BANKRUPTCY. THE UPRISING OF THE NATIVE TRIBE, PARTICULARLY THE PEDI TRIBE UNDER CHIEF SEKUKUNI, ALSO CAUSED SECURITY CONCERNS AMONGST THE BURGHERS. THIS ALLOWED BRITAIN TO ANNEX THE TRANSVAAL WITHOUT A SHOT BEING FIRED ON THE 12 APRIL 1877. DURING THIS PERIOD OF POLITICAL TURMOIL, PAUL KRUGER ROSE TO PROMINENCE. HE WAS ONE OF THE THREE LEADERS AT THE HISTORIC PAARDEKRAAL ASSEMBLY WHERE 6,000 BURGHERS PLEDGED TO REGAIN THE INDEPENDENCE OF THEIR REPUBLIC. THE PAARDEKRAAL MONUMENT IN KRUGERSDORP WAS LATER ERECTED AT THIS HISTORIC SITE. THE RESULTING FIRST WAR OF INDEPENDENCE BROKE OUT ON THE 16 DECEMBER 1880 AND ON THE 26 FEBRUARY 1881 THE BRITISH SUFFERED A HUMILIATING DEFEAT AT THE BATTLE OF AMAJUBA. IN 1883, PAUL KRUGER WAS ELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF THE TRANSVAAL AND HE RETAINED THIS PRESIDENCY DURING THE NEXT THREE ELECTIONS. AFTER THE TRANSVAAL REGAINED INDEPENDENCE, A FURTHER GOLD DISCOVERY WAS MADE IN THE BARBERTON AREA IN 1883. THE RESULTING ECONOMIC BOOM IN THE AREA RESULTED IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A STOCK EXCHANGE. SOME EXCEPTIONAL GOLD DISCOVERIES WERE MADE AND THE FIRST 50 TONS OF ORE AT THE FAMOUS GOLDEN QUARRY PRODUCED NEARLY 300 OUNCES OF GOLD. THE BARBERTON GOLD FIELD PRODUCED APPROXIMATELY 252,553 KG OF GOLD FOR THE PERIOD 1883 TO 1983. THIS IMPORTANT DISCOVERY WAS NEVERTHELESS SOON DWARFED BY PRODUCTION IN THE WITWATERSRAND BASIN.  

CARTWRIGHT, A. P. VALLEY OF GOLD. Cape Town: Howard Timmins, . First Edition. 187Pp, includes index. Map on endpapers. B+W plates and illustrations. 190x250mm Tall. Very Good. Owner's name inscription on halftitle page and 3 small stains to the first three pages, otherwise a neat and tight copy of the relative scarce first edition. Dj is scuffed, edges are worn, some foxing to verso and have a few small tears and a small chip at spine's top.. (#) pilgrim's rest, eastern transvaal, gold mining, panning, pelgrimsrus, goud, prospektering, oos-transvaal, laeveld,