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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 289

(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 (27 June) envelope (B.S.A.P. crest on flap) to England, marked "On Active Service" and signed "Hoel Llewellyn, Capt., B.S.A.P. Rustenburg 27.6.1900", bearing 1d. rose-red and green, 2d. brown and green and 2½d. blue and green with another stamp to left of 1d. value excised, all cancelled by Zeerust double-ring datestamps (29.6) with "z.a." removed, Bristol arrival c.d.s. (27.7) on reverse. Photo

provenance:
Kenneth Griffith, November 2004

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