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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 20

(x) Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902
Prisoners of War Mail
Bermuda
1901-03 sizeable group of covers and fronts to P.O.W.s (c.80) incoming to Bermuda and bearing a variety of censor marks including attractive 1901 (14 Aug.) cover from Vredefort to Bermuda bearing a good strike of violet triangular press censor handstamp, unusual 1901 (23 Aug.) mourning cover from O.F.S. to Darrell Island, West Indies with "NPR" used as only censorship mark, 1901 (2 September) mourning cover from South Africa to Burtt Island with violet triangle censor and good strike of one line "Pr of War" handstamp in black, 1902 (10 Mar.) registered cover from O.F.S. to Darrell Island with good strike of violet oval "passed press censor/brandfort", 1901 (14 July) cover to Bermuda with manuscript censor mark "Passed Censor" and initialed beneath, 1902 (20 Apr.) mourning cover from Cape of Good Hope to Hawkins Island with violet traingle and oval "graaf reinet" censor marks, 1902 (27 May) cover from O.F.S. to Burtt Island with violet triangular and shield "J.C.C." censors. An interesting lot with mixed condition, some damaged, well worth viewing.

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Sold for
£420

Starting price
£140