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Auction: 21030 - The 'Greca' Collection of Southern African Postal History
Lot: 410

Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902
Mafeking Siege
1900 (7 June) envelope to Scotland complete with letter, marked "On Active Service", from Capt. Ramsey "O.C. Lobatsi", with the enclosed letter written at Lobatsi and posted at Mafeking (9.6) with London Paid c.d.s. (7.7) and Stow arrival c.d.s. (8.7) on reverse; the letter refers to him being in Mafeking and points on the line, the camp at Lobatsi and his feeling that "the Boers are giving up their arms" and that "the last shot in the Boer War has been fired". Photo

provenance:
Harry Birkhead, March 2014

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