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Auction: 11033 - Autumn Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1971

St. Helena The Boer War Incoming Mail transvaal: 1900 (24 Aug.) envelope from Pretoria bearing unoverprinted 1/2d. (3), not accepted for postage and charged 3d. Postage Due, showing arrival c.d.s. and Type 1 cachet, 1901 (Jan.) damaged envelope from Germiston with arrival c.d.s., Type 1 cachet and marked "Please inform your wife she is only allowed to write four pages", 1901 (July) and 1902 (Feb.) envelopes to Lt. Col. von Braun (German leader fighting for the Boers), 1901 (Nov.) and (Dec.) envelopes (the former from Natal) each showing triangular-framed "passed by censor/deadwood" Type 3 cachet, and 1902 envelope to a P.O.W. at "Brootborton Camp" (Broadbottom) Estimate £ 150-200

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