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Auction: 22025 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 297

Cape of Good Hope
Mafeking Siege
1900 (9 Apr.) envelope to Wolverhampton, bearing 1900 Cape 3d. on 1d. carmine strip of four with seriffed overprint, Types 3-6, neatly tied by "mafeking/c.g.h." c.d.s., showing Crocodile Pools transit c.d.s. (15.4) and, on reverse, blue crayon "Recd damaged PO Bulyo", "on postal service" label with manuscript "Officially sealed, PO Bulyo", Bulawayo (23.4) and arrival (25.5) datestamps; the envelope with few expected faults though clear of the adhesives. A rare and most unusual cover. S.G. 3. Photo

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