South Africa 1933-48 1d Blue & Violet Pictorial Definitives

South Africa · 1933 · 1d

This definitive stamp features a bicolored design of the Dromedaris, one of the three ships that brought Jan van Riebeeck to establish a settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. The central vignette of the ship is printed in violet, framed by a blue border with the denomination and country name in both English and Afrikaans.

Issued as part of a long-running pictorial series, this stamp commemorates the arrival of the first European settlers in what would become South Africa, a key event in the nation's colonial history.