THE ITEM

  lovely old picture-postcard of

CALITZDORP

LOOKING TOWARDS GAMKA'S RIVER FROM CALITZDORP

SOUTH-AFRICA / ZUID-AFRIKA / SUID-AFRIKA

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COLOURS / TEXT / ILLUSTRATION

front-side:

coloured photo, animated

divided back-side:

the necessary lines printed in green

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THE PUBLISHER:

P. S. & C

CAPETOWN

NR.: 1016

PHOTO BY:

T.D. RAVENSCROFT

RONDEBOSCH

Thomas Daniel Ravenscroft (b.1851) started taking photographs in the late 1800’s. He travelled around Cape Town in a Cape Cart where he would go from town to town taking and selling photographs and by c.1900 he opened a studio in Rondebosch, Cape Town.

Shortly after the Boer War, and before the Union was formed in 1910, Ravenscroft was commissioned by the Cape Government (Cecil John Rhodes) to take a selection of photographs of all the towns in Southern Africa including Rhodesia. He used these pictures, amongst others, to  produce Post Cards which today are very sought after items all around the world.

(www.rhodesianstudycircle.org.uk)

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SIZED:

9 X 13,7 CENTIMETERS

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CONDITION:

reasonable to good, postally used with a 1 d. TRANSVAAL-STAMP, stamped TRANSVAAL, JOHANNESBURG and ANVERS 1906, bit rubbed, dirty and discoloured, corners and edges bumped with some small damages, ink from postal stamp is showing on front-side

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KEYWORDS:

POSTCARDS / ANSICHTSKARTEN / CARTES POSTALES / TARJETA POSTAL / AFRIKA / TRANSVAAL / RIVERS / MOUNTAINS / HORSE-AND-CARRIAGES

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