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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 81

(x) Prisoners of War Mail
Mail from British P.O.W.'s in Pretoria
1900 (3 May) unstamped envelope (no flap) to Major Hobbs of the West Coast Regiment at Pretoria (captured at Willow Grange on 23 November), showing oval-framed "consulate of the united states of america to the s.a.r./pretoria" oval-framed arms cachet with "may 3 Re'd" date below, and circular "gezien/censor" datestamp (6.5), both superb in violet. Photo

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