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Auction: 24028 - Stamps and Covers of British Africa
Lot: 1009

(x) Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902
The Steven Walske Collection of the Boer War Sieges
Siege of Mafeking: 13 October 1899 to 17 May 1900
The Southern Route via Kimberley
1900 (26 Mar.) envelope (with original letter) to "Telegraph Department, Genl Post Office, Cape Town", bearing seriffed overprint British Bechuanaland 6d. on 3d. claret [4] tied by Mafeking c.d.s. with another strike alongside and showing, on reverse, Barkly West transit (11.4) and Cape Town arrival (15.4) datestamps. It was then postmarked "records branch" (17.4) opened in error and re-sealed with tape; the envelope much creased and with other faults. The earliest known civilian line crosser envelopes are postmarked 26 March 1900. Photo

provenance:
Ken Griffith, October 2001

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Sold for
£280

Starting price
£280