Cape triangle.
Cape Triangles is the commonly used nickname of Cape Town's Good Hope Stamps. The stamps appeared between 1853 and 1864, and give their name to their triangular shape. These were the first triangular stamps that were issued. They are very rare and therefore very valuable. The reason for the triangular shape was that postbodes could see the postage stamp if a letter was posted inside or outside the colony. Penalties
Many Cape Triangles are not stamped, but are penalized invalid. That's a story apart. Because many farmers lived quite remote, a clerk was often sent to the post office with a letter and appropriate money for the postage. That money was, however, broken and the letter was sent unprecedented. Then the farmers bought a stamp of stamps and the clerk received postage to the post office. Now the stamp was weighed and packed and the letter was sent again unprecedented. At one point it was allowed that pricked stamps were previously prone to penalization by setting a parade or name and date. That turned out to be good. Only a lot later, firmaproforations came into force, also to protect against abuse by their own staff.
Under philatelists, however, the misunderstandings that the stamps were used were tax-free, and therefore had little value. As a result, many Cape triangles have disappeared in the trash can. This is partly a cause of the scarcity of these seals. Stanley Gibbons
The name of Edward Stanley Gibbons is attached to the Cape triangle. He had a postage stamp in his father's pharmacy since 1856. In 1863 two sailors came with two bags of stamps from Cape de Goede Hoop. He bought the party for £ 5 and eventually sold the stamps for £ 500. This was the starting point for a career in the stamp trade.
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