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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 20

(x) Boer Invasion of Cape Colony
Venterstad
1900 (8 Jan.) envelope "via Delagoa bay" to Port Elizabeth, bearing O.F.S. 1d. purple (foxing) cancelled by superb "450" barred oval with c.d.s. alongside c.d.s. which is covered by Cape Town "3d" tax handstamp, and with "postmeester generaal" oval censor cachet in blue, Opened Under Martial law censor label at top and on to reverse which shows Bloemfontein (1.11), Cape Town (1.2) and arrival (3.20 c.d.s.; an attractive commercial usage. Photo

provenance:
Boer War Centenary Sale, October 1999

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Sold for
£240