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Auction: 24011 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain and the World
Lot: 2068

(x) Anglo-Boer War
Political Prisoners
1900 (2 Aug.) locally addressed OHMS envelope to Dr. van Dijk Mathey showing oval "gevangenis/witwatersrand/goudvelden/johannesburg, z.a.r." d.s. in violet; 1901 (6 July) envelope from Paarl addressed to F.S. Malan at Tokai Prison; 1901 (23 Dec.) envelope from Naauwpoort to a prisoner in Kimberley and forwarded with several endorsements including "Try Kimberley Gaol", "Removed to Ladysmith" and "(S.S.) Orient, St. Helena"; 1902 (15 Jan.) envelope from Army Post Office to Manchester showing, on reverse, oval gevangenis/johannesburg" d.s. in red; and 1903 (16 Apr.) OHMS envelope from Johannesburg to Pretoria, showing oval "Prisons department/transvaal/Crown/official postage" and oval "johannesburg/prison" d.s., both in red

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Starting price
£320