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Auction: 24028 - Stamps and Covers of British Africa
Lot: 1016

(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 (5 Apr.) envelope ("victoria hospital board, mafeking" imprint on flap) to London, bearing seriffed overprint Cape 1d. on ½d. [4], 3d. on 1d. [6], British Bechuanaland 6d. on 3d. [5], 1s. on 4d. [2] and Bechuanaland 1d. on ½d. [2], all clearly tied by Mafeking c.d.s. and showing, on reverse, Crocodile Pools (20.4), Bulawayo (23.4) and arrival (25.5) datestamps; the envelope with some creases. A most attractive franking with the largest number of different "Mafeking Besieged" stamps known on cover. Photo

provenance:
C. Emerson Hutson, June 1961

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

Estimate
£3,500 to £5,000

Starting price
£2800