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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 317

(x) Wepener
The town was under siege by the Boers from 9-24 April 1900
1900 (18 Apr.) Transvaal 1d. "battlefield" card, uprated with O.F.S. 1d. purple, originally written in pencil some ten days earlier, then copied in ink, headed "Lager by Wepener" and entering the postal system at Winburg, Leiden arrival c.d.s. (21.5). A fascinating card and the only recorded Boer correspondence from the siege. Photo

Note: The writer reveals that he is using his knee as a desk and stating that the enemy had already been surrounded for 10 days

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