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Auction: 24028 - Stamps and Covers of British Africa
Lot: 1019

(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 (18 Apr.) double rate envelope to Bulawayo, bearing seriffed overprint British Bechuanaland 6d. on 3d. block of four [1-2] clearly tied by Mafeking c.d.s., showing "passed/press censor" h.s. in purple with arrival datestamp (26.4) on reverse; the envelope with pressed central vertical fold. Very rare, fewer than ten blocks known on cover. Brandon Certificate (1981). Photo

provenance
Earl of Crawford
S.G. Rich

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Sold for
£2,800

Starting price
£2800