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Auction: 24011 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain and the World
Lot: 2032

(x) Anglo-Boer War
Boer Prisoners of War
Ceylon
diyatalawa: 1901 (6 Dec.) Russia 4k. stationery card to a Russian POW at Diyatalawa Camp, indistinctly cancelled, showing Colombo transit c.d.s. (29.12), Diyatalawa Camp c.d.s. (30.12) and large oval "diyatalawa camp/passed/censor" in violet; light overall discolouration. A rare source of mail to one of the few Russian prisoners

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Sold for
£130

Starting price
£100