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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 255

(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
Recovery of Looted Mail Handstamps
1900 (27 Apr.) envelope from Pietersburg to Cape Town, bearing Transvaal 1d. rose-red and green with double-ring datestamp, pre-war Z.A.R. Found Open and Resealed label and showing, on reverse, superb "found in rustenbg/by british forces" handstamp in violet, Pretoria (8.11) and Cape Town (13.11) datestamps. Photo

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