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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 25

(x) Boer Invasion of Vryburg, British Bechuanaland
The town was occupied by the Boers from 18 October 1899 to 9 May 1900. Cape stamps found in the town were overprinted with the value and "Z.A.R."
1900 (30 Jan.) Standard Bank envelope to Lourencos Marques, bearing 1d. pair with c.d.s. and manuscript censor mark at top, the reverse with censor label, Johannesburg and arrival c.d.s.; also 1899 envelope (faults), complete with letter from A.J. de Wet, Assistant State Attorney, "via Schweizer-Reneke" to Vryburg with a request for the new V.R.I. stamps and "You remember telling me about the Daily Mail correspondent that came out of Mafeking via Vryburg just before we were there. Well he tried the same game again and we have got him safely lodged here. His papers were most interesting to go through, splendid illustration of the mendacious reports the English public is supplied with". A most interesting pair

provenance:
Bill Hart, June 1993 for first

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