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Auction: 24028 - Stamps and Covers of British Africa
Lot: 1033

(x) Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902
The Steven Walske Collection of the Boer War Sieges
Siege of Kimberley: 14 October 1899 to 15 February 1900
1899 (16 Oct.) triple rate African Banking Corporation envelope (red wax seal on reverse) to Cape Town, bearing Cape 1d. strip of three tied by "kimberley/c.c." squared-circle d.s. just two days after the siege began. Released after the siege and showing, on reverse, clear arrival datestamp (23.2.01). Photo

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