Parcel Post 1885: £5 deep green, 10 shilling dull chestnut, 5 shilling slate, 3 pence mauve and ½ penny grey, all of good colour, perforations mainly fine, tied by triangular parcel handstamp “Z A R 60” to a parcel tag sent registered with two oval “R / Z.A.R." marks. Manuscript notation in red ink indicating weight and postage fee (gold shipment). Reverse, cds “PELGRIMSBUST Z.A.R. 16 MEI 95”. Heavy creasing as is often the case with parcel tag; the £5 with corner bend. Rare; only £5 sterling stamp reported in payment of postage in the British Empire.
