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Auction: 24028 - Stamps and Covers of British Africa
Lot: 1023

(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 (8 May) "mafeking hotel" envelope to Kanya (northwest of Mafeking) and forwarded to Bulawayo, marked "if not in Kanya please forward", bearing sans-serif overprint Bechuanaland Protectorate 6d. on 2d. pair tied by Mafeking c.d.s.; the envelope with some peripheral faults and flap missing. Brandon Certificate (1980). Photo

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Sold for
£320

Starting price
£280