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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 292

(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 (12 Aug.) envelope (B.S.A.P. crest on flap) to Wales, marked "On Active Service" and signed "Hoel Llewellyn, Capt., Comdg Art: B.S.A. Police, Oliphants Nek Rustenburg 27.6.1900", bearing 1d. rose-red and green and 2½d. blue and green twice cancelled by Army P.O. 55 single-ring datestamp on arrival at Pretoria, upon arrival redirected to Basingstoke with Cardiff "162 duplex (8.9) below the adhesives and with Cardiff (8.9) and Basingstoke (9.9) c.d.s. on reverse; the adhesives with a couple of minor imperfections, nevertheless a rare franking and cancellation on this issue. Photo

Note: The contents, not now present, conveyed the news that he thought her husband had been captured

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