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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 257

(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 (Nov.) envelope to Cape Town, showing fine "found in rustenbg/by british forces" handstamp in violet alongside circular-framed "t" and "2d." h.s., part Transvaal c.d.s. on reverse; the envelope with a couple of small tears at top and part flap missing. Also a large part envelope front to salt River with nearly complete strike of the handstamp and taxed at 1d. for double wrapper rate. Photo

Note: It was Lord Methuen's task to "tidy up" the Western Transvaal. He raided all the farmsteads during October where these mails were found

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