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Auction: 18043 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 561

(x) Basutoland
The Moirosi Campaign
1879 (early June) soldier's envelope (opened-out) "From Pt. W. Harbor No. 1 Troop C.M. Rifles, South Africa. On Active Service in Basutoland" to England, marked "Stamps unobtainable", countersigned by the Commanding Officer of No. 1 Troop and showing two part strikes of double-ring Aliwal North datestamp (6.6), Cape Town (21.6) and superb "1/-" handstamp, all on face; some staining at right and two small faults at foot, otherwise sound. A very rare cover from this campaign of which just three examples are believed to exist. Photo

Note: The High Commissioner of the Cape, Sir Bartle Frere, and the Cape Premier, Mr. Gordon Sprigg, mounted a campaign against the Chief Moirosi of the Bapedi for not paying taxes and refusing the disarm. Sprigg mobilised 300 Cape Mounted Yeomanry, Cape Mounted Rifles and some Fingo Levies at Palmietfontein on the border of the Moirosi country in February 1879. The campaign lasted until late November 1879 when the Chief and his troops were finally over-run

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£950