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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 28

(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 (5 May) stampless envelope to a soldier at Verteen Stroom showing a superb strike of the "Veld-Post Z.A.R./vrijburg." oval datestamp in blue, not able to be delivered as Fourteen Streams had already been occupied by the British,; partially split vertical crease at centre, otherwise fine and very rare, being one of only three examples of this datestamp recorded on cover. Photo

provenance:
Kenneth Griffith, March 2003

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£900