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Auction: 20040 - Stamps and Covers of Southern Africa
Lot: 13

Basutoland
Covers and Cancellation
The Basutoland Rebellion, Gun War, 1880-81
1880 (22 Sept.) certified true copy of a letter from Lesaona at Kolojane to Major Bell, "The peace is broken by the Government because the Government shoot first and made a war to Basutho. You are my friend but why you don't inform me about the government that has happened at Mr. Barkly and Mr. Griffiths...I repeat the month I told Matoka that Peace in broken by the Goverment not basutho...I have heard that it has been fighting there at Mr. Griffiths. Is lies or it true"
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Estimate
£140 to £180

Starting price
£110