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Auction: 24028 - Stamps and Covers of British Africa
Lot: 1025

(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
Town Letters
1900 (3 May) envelope addressed to "Mr Wm Tiffin, Mafeking Hotel", bearing Goodyear 1d. deep blue on blue clearly tied by Mafeking c.d.s.; the envelope slightly soiled. Rare, only five covers known with the 1d. paying the correct local rate. R.P.S. Certificate (1992). Photo

provenance:
Ken Griffith, October 2001

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

Estimate
£2,000 to £3,000

Starting price
£1600