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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 268

(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
Used
½d. green, 1d. rose-red and green, 2d. brown and green, 2½d. blue and green and 3d. purple and green, affixed to piece and cancelled by one complete and two part strikes of P.W.K. Rustenburg double-ring datestamp of 25 July; all with faults/defects though a colourful philatelic franking. R.P.S. Certificate (1977). S.G. 1-5, £790. Photo

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£220