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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 293

(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 (13 Aug.) "On (Active Service)" from "G.B. Hook, Rhodesian Regt., Plumer's Brigade 13/8/00" to Bulawayo, bearing ½d. green, 1d. rose-red and green, 2d. brown and green, 2½d. blue and green and 3d. purple and green all cancelled in transit at Pretoria by double-ring datestamps (15.8), Bulawayo c.d.s. (25.8) on reverse; the envelope with some faults and the adhesives all with creases, nevertheless a rare and important franking. R.P.S. Certificate (1949) states "some stamp, or stamps, removed from cover" though no signs of cancellations are present, so any that were present originally must have remained uncancelled. Photo

provenance:
Senator Rossouw, October 1959

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