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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4104

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection
Durban
1900 (5 May) Boer War censored envelope (opened-out and repaired) from Johannesburg to a P.O.W. "Taken at Elandslaaagte, Simons Town, Cape Colony", franked at 3d. and showing a superb strike of the large unframed "paquebot" handstamp (H2774) and circular-framed "censor./prisoners of war" handstamp in violet, the reverse with Pretoria and Durban datestamps

Note: The cover was carried on the S.S. "Columbian" which conveyed the "C" Battery, Royal Canadian Field Artillery from Cape Town to Beira, P.E.A., and then returned to Durban, where it received the Paquebot mark and entered the mails on 30 April

provenance:
Roger Hosking, December 2014

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Estimate
£400 to £500

Starting price
£320