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Auction: 24028 - Stamps and Covers of British Africa
Lot: 1013

(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 Northern Route via Bulawayo
1900 (28 Mar.) envelope (truncated at left) to Bulawayo, bearing seriffed overprint Cape 1s. on 4d. [2], clearly tied by Mafeking c.d.s., showing "passed/press censor" h.s. in purple applied in Bulawayo, with arrival datestamp (9.4) on reverse. Photo

provenance:
C. Emerson Huston, June 1961

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Sold for
£520

Starting price
£400