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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 291

(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 (14 July) envelope (opened-out) "On Active Service" from "G.B. Hook, Rhodesia Regt. Rustenburg" to his wife in Bulawayo, bearing 2d. brown and green (2) sharing Zeerust double with datestamp with "z.a." removed, showing "passed/censor" handstamp with the signature of Col. J.S. Nicholson below, part arrival c.d.s. on reverse; the right-hand stamp with rounded corner and the envelope with some creases, etc. and foxing

Note: Col. Nicholson was the Officer Commanding Rustenburg after Lt. Col. Hoare was sent to Eland's River Depot on 4 July and could not return as he had malaria fever. The Rustenburg squared-circle canceller disappeared after the temporary evacuation of the town on 4 July. This is the last recorded date of use of the Passed Censor cachet

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