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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 252

(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
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Otto's Hoop
1900 "in dienst." envelope bearing Transvaal ½d. cancelled by Otto's Hoop squared-circle datestamps (2) in violet with day and year dates showing "89" or "98", and seven strikes of four different Commissioner instructional marks, intaglio Arms handstamps or other datestamps, all in the same deep violet colour, at upper right is affixed a Mafeking Baden-Powell 18mm. 3d. deep blue with 7 May c.d.s. on small piece; the envelope with creases and other faults, the 3d. stamp sound

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