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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 273

(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
3d. purple and green marginal block of four from the top of the sheet, neatly cancelled by centrally applied F.P.O. 19 c.d.s. (15.8) of Commando Nek; the left-hand vertical pair with trace of a vertical "line" on reverse, otherwise fine and a very scarce multiple. S.G. 5, £800+. Photo

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£550