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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 100

(x) Colonial Contingents
New Zealand
1899 (Dec.) envelope from Palmerstone to "Mr. Hayne (Help on Troopship) SS "Waiwera" Cape Town", bearing 2½d. and marked on reverse "Returned 3-4-00 left the ship", various backstamps, 1900 (4 July) blue OHMS envelope from "A W Robin, Major Comdg NZMR, Pretoria S.A." to Otago, bearing Transvaal V.R.I. ½d. (defective) and 1d. (2) cancelled by Army P.O. 50 c.d.s., and 1901 (Feb.) envelope (damaged) from a soldier at Krugersdorp to New Plymouth and redirected to Waverley, unusually registered and with the tax mark erased

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