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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 24

Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902
Prisoners of War Mail
Cape of Good Hope
A range of covers (75) and fronts (97) nearly all from the Cape, O.F.S. or Transvaal to Green Point Camp with a few to other locations and including envelopes (11) addressed to Prisoners on or relating to H.M.S. Penelope or other vessels used as temporary holding stations for prisoners before they were shipped off to overseas camps, and a few via Lourenco Marques to camps at Krugersdorp or Potchefstroom, four with framed "censor, prisoners of war/L Heyman, Lt. Col." cachet in violet and three with boxed "censor to prisoners of war" with the censor's name added later in manuscript and most with circular-framed "censor/prisoners of war" handstamp or similar in various colours; condition very mixed though with some interesting items and with viewing recommended

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Sold for
£400

Starting price
£210