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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 246

(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
1900-01 envelopes (6) sent by Lieut R. Ford of the Transvaal Constabulary to Belgium, variously endorsed with two sent unstamped with Army P.O. 55 c.d.s. (one in blue) and bearing G.B. 2½d. applied and cancelled in London, one a G.B. 2d. registered envelope, uprated with 2½d., cancelled by Field P.O. c.d.s. and three franked at 2½d. with V.R.I. values cancelled by A.P.O. 55, Field Post Office B.O. or Pretoria c.d.s.; also 1901 (30 May) envelope from Belgium to Lieut. Ford at the Army Service Corps in Potchefstroom with two different "deceased" handstamps. A fine and unusual group

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