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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 3

(x) Boer Forces Mail
1900 (21 Apr.) postcard to Germany, bearing 1d. rose-red and green cancelled by a light strike of the very rare "p.k./fourie's Lâgér/21 April 1900" handstamp in violet (one of only three examples recorded and the only example recorded cancelling a stamp), taxed with octagonal-framed "t/15/centimes" handstamp and also showing Pretoria (24.4) and Stralsuna (27.5) c.d.s. The only recorded item of taxed mail from Mpuke Pass. Photo

Note: General Burger requested leave at the end of March 1900. Commandant Fourie was promoted to General to replace him

provenance:
Bill Hart, June 1993

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£600