Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 277
(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
1/- ochre and green, neatly cancelled by large part Army Post Office 50 c.d.s. (20.8) of Pretoria and affixed to piece; fine and rare. Signed Bloch on reverse. S.G. 7, £1,200. Photo
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Sold for
£520