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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 286

(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
Covers
The following section offers the finest group of covers from this Siege issue ever formed, representing over a quarter of all the covers recorded to date
1900 (26 June) envelope from Eland's River to England, dated "June 26/00" at foot and with "passed/censor" handstamp signed "C.O. Hore Lt. Col.", bearing 2½d. blue and green cancelled with pen stroke and fine squared-circle datestamp for 29 June, the reverse with Pretoria (2.7) and Sheffield (27.7) c.d.s.; the envelope with some faults though a presentable and unusually routed overseas rate cover. Photo

Note: This cover is noted by the owner as having been sent from Eland's River and carried by Snyman's first cart delivery. The cover is censored the day after Baden-Powell issued a notice that mail would be accepted by the post and telegraph office, that it would be censored and that all mail had to be open

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