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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 244

(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
Ephemera
A selection including "The Mafeking Mail" Nos. 1 (2), 42, 95, 144 and 171, Certificate of Service for Peter Lang who served in the Western Defences, postcard showing banknotes, 1900 Standard Bank pay cheque to Baden-Powell, two Cape Town announcements on the Relief and a large photograph showing Baden-Powell and forty men, marked on reverse "Group of Defenders of Mafeking on visit of Sir. R. Baden-Powell. 1912". A fascinating lot

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Sold for
£380