1916, BRITISH OCCUPATION OF GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA 1915, TRANSVAAL
1d red postal stationery card, mailed NEUHEUSIS 8 April 1915
1916, BRITISH OCCUPATION OF GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA 1915, TRANSVAAL
1d red postal stationery card, mailed NEUHEUSIS 8 April 1915 to
KARIBIB, superb strike of the German imperial single‑circle
NEUHEUSIS datestamp with crown and colony legend excised by the
occupying postal authority, indicium tied, violet manuscript T
applied then annulled when the Union clerk confirmed continued
validity of Transvaal cards for the internal 1d postcard rate,
reverse with crisp KARIBIB 10 April 1915 arrival, carriage over the
Swakopmund–Windhoek military railway then secured by
Lieutenant‑General H T Lukin’s Central Force during the South‑West
Africa campaign, postal use falls squarely within the World War I
operations led by Prime Minister General LOUIS BOTHA and
Major‑General JAN SMUTS which compelled Governor Dr THEODOR SEITZ
to surrender on 9 July 1915, the first complete Allied conquest of
a German colony World War 1, NEUHEUSIS began as a Rhenish mission
farm and the site of Captain CURT VON FRANÇOIS’ 1890 frontier fort
that formed the nucleus of modern Windhoek, KARIBIB established by
industrialist GOTTLOB ZERRENNER served as the pivotal rail
junction feeding the Otavi copper fields, provenance EX KUGEL, XF,
exhibition‑worthy and scarce combination of German colonial
cancelling device with Union stationery, ex Kugel, XF! Estimate
900€.
