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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 245

(x) Rustenburg
Major-General Baden-Powell and Col. Hoare occupied the town on 14 June 1900. Baden-Powell left the town on 7 August. The next British occupation of the town started with the arrival of Brig.-General Broadwood on 26 September
Postal History
1900-02 selection of envelopes (16) to England, six sent unstamped (one a captured "in dienst." type) with various "On Active Service" or "No Stamps Obtainable" notations, the others all franked at 1d. (9) or 2d., showing Army P.O. 50 (3) and 55 (13, one struck in blue); faults in places though an interesting group

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