Help With Africa Cancel On South Africa KGV?

Any ideas on this cancel? It looks vaguely military to me, but that would only be a guess, and I don't recall seeing another like it.

My original comment was to be something like,
going through 400 or so of mine, the three ring CDS
and Maltese Cross is quite consistant (common?)
up until 1952, In 1961 the three ring appears with
numerals instead of the Maltese Cross.

I have never seen one though, with "AFRICA"

Then I ducked into my old "duplicates" scans
really bad scans when I first began collecting,
and there was one hiding. :)

Any help?

(The top of yours, and the bottom of mine confirms
SOUTH AFRICA with date in between)

Wow, that's cool you were able to figure that out with the two partial cancels.

Those old enough to recall the Goon Show may remember the Great International Christmas Pudding. It escaped from captivity and turned man-eater. It was finally tracked down to 'No. 23A, Africa'.

SCF is really something...really something. I won't try to figure out the town, because I wouldn't presume that mine is the same; it is enough to know that the layout of the cancel is different, but still apparently "ordinary" postage. I like it.

I wondered whether that was an OU" combination at the top, but I was telling myself that I didn't see the base of a "T." It is probably there, though, on the perf.

Thanks much.
Collin

"I'll have what he's drinking Barkeep!......" :)

Trying not to be too nerdy, geeky, but going on the arc
of the CDS, one can reasonably assume the subject name
that is missing, would be centralised in design.
Given that the exposed arc contains five letters "NTEIN"
one could assume at least with 60% accuracy, that the name
would be "Bloemfontein" the name part of the arc would
contain 11-15 letters.

The Capital City of the free state province of South Africa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloemfontein

Comments?

You are probably right on the money for yours. Mine may or may not be. Our layouts are similar, but the details vary (line thickness, time block projecting into the inner ring).

Ah yes, well spotted.

There were quite a few variations with this type of cancel. Thick bars, thin bars, cross pattée, St Andrews Cross, time code, no time code, etc.

Some are not even South African!

Great! a new word A "cross patee" fleuron.