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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 1

(x) Boer Forces Mail
1899 (26 Dec.) unstamped "Commando Dienst" envelope from Jacobsdal to Bloemfontein with Stats Veld Kornet cachet used to authorise non-stamped letters, and 1900 (9 Feb.) unstamped "Veltdienst" envelope from Wolvaarts to P.W. Dreyer serving under Gen. Potgieter at Modder River, Johannesburg transit c.d.s. (9.2) on reverse, only six days before the relief of Kimberley; also 1899 (21 Dec.) O.F.S. 1½d. on 2d. stationery card from Jacobsdal to Germany showing "postmeester generaal" oval censor cachet and written nine days after Gen. Methuen's defeat at Magersfontein. An interesting trio

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