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Auction: 18043 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 566

(x) Basutoland
The Basutoland Rebellion (The Gun War)
1881 (17 June) blue envelope (complete with letter headed "T Horse Camp. Thlotse Heights") ex the Burmiester" correspondence from Capt. William Kay Dow of the Transvaal Horse to Cape Town, marked "Wm. Kay Dow, Capt, Leribe" at lower left corner and bearing 1880 "3" (S.G. Type 10) on 3d. dull rose cancelled with barred oval "317" (D1) and with fine "thlotse/heights" datestamp (D3, 19.6) at left, the reverse with "maseru/basutoland" (D2, 22.6, part date altered in manuscript) and Cape Town (4.7) datestamps, the envelope with a couple of small faults though the earliest recorded date of use of both the barred oval and Thlotse Heights datestamp. Photo

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£650