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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 336

(x) Wolmaransstad
The town was occupied by the British from 15 June until 27 July, 1900, when the British Forces departed and the Boers re-occupied the town
Postal History
Boer Re-Occupation, 14 August 1900 to 12 February 1901
1900 (Oct. and Nov.) envelopes from L. Bülbring & Co. at Port Elizabeth to Leask & Co., both franked at ½d., the first sent by the southern route, overland by horse and apparently taken by the Boers while they were raiding the railway line between Kimberley and Vryburg, Fourteen Streams c.d.s. (19.10) and manuscript "Recd from Johan van Vuuren 18/1100", the second sent by the northern route with Johannesburg censor cachet and showing Johannesburg c.d.s. (22.11), held for 11 months there and again for 26 September 1901 when sent on to Leask at Klerksdorp with manuscript "Rece in K'dorp 1/10/01". An interesting pair

Note: L. Bülbring was the father of Gustav Bülbring, the noted philatelist who became an RDPSA and Life President of PFSA
Note: Wolmaransstad commandos joined local commandos at Schweizer Reneke to lay siege to the town on 18 August. Telephone lines were cut and tapped. Lord Methuen evacuated the entire garrison at Schweizer Reneke on 9 January 1901, seven months after the British occupation. Soon afterwards the Boers restored administration to the area and communication between Wolmaransstad and other western Transvaal towns

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