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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1934

Rhodesia
Covers and Cancellations
1896 (28 Aug.) Mashonaland 1½d. card, uprated with 1896-97 1d., to a Artillery Captain in the War Ministry at Copenhagen, written by a member of Alderson's Mounted Infantry at Devil's Pass who had landed at Beira on 26 July during the Mashona Rebellion and who had travelled through Portuguese territory in civilian clothes and reformed at Umtali, showing three 1 September Umtali code 5 datestamps with only "6" for year date and with very light arrival datestamp cancelling the additional adhesive; the message mentions Chief Makoni whose village was close to Rusape, just to the north of Devil's Pass. A scarce item from the Mashona Rebellion. Photo

provenance:
John Michael, September 1976

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Sold for
£280