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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 251

(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
Elands River Depot
1900 (Aug.) soldier's envelope from a member of the 10th. New Zealand Regiment to New Plymouth, marked "Nr. Rustenburg" and reverse and with Mafeking squared-circle datestamp (28.8) on face, arrival datestamp (9.10) on reverse, and 1900 (1 Sept.) soldier's envelope from Sergt. Zaffert of the Elands River Detachment to Durban, not countersigned by the Commanding Officer and showing Mafeking squared-circle datestamp and oval-framed "t/1d" handstamp in a type apparently not recorded by Hart and Kantey; both with faults though a most unusual pair

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