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Auction: 24028 - Stamps and Covers of British Africa
Lot: 1018

(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 (16 Apr.) envelope to Queenstown, Cape Colony marked "Via Bulawayo", bearing seriffed overprint 3d. on 1d. strip of four [3-6] clearly tied by Mafeking c.d.s., showing Crocodile Pools transit d.s. (28.4) alongside with, on reverse, Bulawayo (30.4), East London (3.6) and arrival (4.6) datestamps. A neat franking. Photo

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£850

Starting price
£550