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Auction: 13027 - The Collector's series sale
Lot: 312

Bechuanaland
Covers and Cancellations
Incoming Mail
1897 (27 Feb.) Cape ½d. green card, uprated with 1d. carmine, from R. Urry, the manager of the Standard Bank at Mafeking, who later signed the Mafeking siege banknotes, to "R J Hicks Esq./lake N'gami"; the card with a corner crease/crack though one of the few items of mail addressed to a member of the British West Charterland Expedition, and the only one to Mr. Hicks, one of the original concessionaries. A very scarce incoming card to this little-known expedition and over a year earlier than any previously recorded. Photo

Note: Mail was forwarded via Palapye to Ngamiland by Runner, courtesy of Khama. See "Runner Post" No. 16, page 284 and No. 21, page 380

Estimate
£200 to £250