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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 260

(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
Transvaal stamps handstamped "v.r." in violet or black
Unused
½d. green (2, one with overprint in deep dull violet), 1d. rose-red and green, 2½d. blue and green and 3d. purple and green, unused with part gum; one ½d. and the 2½d. thinned and the 3d. creased though of good to fine appearance. S.G. 1, 2, 4, 5, £1,175

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