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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 296

(x) Volksrust
Undated soldier's front "From 256/2 Sergeant J. Hughes, Commander in Chiefs Body Guard, Field Force South Africa" to New South Wales, countersigned by the Commanding Officer of E Squadron and bearing E.R.I. 1d. cancelled by Natal Field Force Volksrust octagonal-framed datestamp, 1900 (Aug.) captured Railway Dept. envelope to Ladysmith and redirected to Volksrust, bearing 1d. with Army P.O. and Ladysmith c.d.s., Army Post Office Volksrust rubber datestamp on reverse, 1901 envelope from Pietermaritzburg to Wakkerstroom bearing Natal 1d. with indistinct seal cancellation, marked "Returned from Wakkerstroom Unclaimed" and with Opened Under Martial Law label tied by Volksrust c.d.s., and 1901 (Dec.) to Durban bearing 1d. lilac with an early strike of the Army Post Office Volksrust c.d.s.; the first three with faults in places though an interesting group

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