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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 238

(x) Mafeking
The town was surrounded by the Transvaal Army on 12 October 1899. The siege last seven months and the town was relieved on 17 May 1900 after 217 days
The Stamp Issues
Produced Photographically by Dr. D Taylor on Unwatermarked Horizontally Laid Paper
3d. Baden Powell, 21mm. Wide
Imperforate Between Stamp and Margin Variety
3d. pale blue on blue from the foot of the sheet and showing "screw hole" in margin, neatly cancelled by 11 May c.d.s.; a few foxed perfs. at left, otherwise fine. Rare. Photo

Note: Only two sheets were reportedly were produced imperforate at top and at foot, thus resulting in only eight possible from the foot of the sheet and only two possible with "screw hole"

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