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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1937

Rhodesia
Covers and Cancellations
1898 (21 Jan.) Mashonaland 1½d. card, uprated with 1896-97 1d., to from W.G. Flannery of the British South Africa Police at Salisbury to Sydney, New South Wales, cancelled with single-ring datestamp with single figure "8" for year, the contents including "...I joined the Mashone Mounted Police in November 96.. Often under fire, wet nights in the Veldt, stationed at lonely forts...was present and took part in the attack on the famous chief Mashinggombi (a three day fight) which resulted in the death of that chief and the destruction of his stronghold"; some soiling and with a vertical crease though a descriptive item relating to the Matabele Rebellion. Photo

provenance:
John Michael, September 1976

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Sold for
£210